any updates to the recommended accommodation here, available January through March.
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA ☔️
6790 posts
We were there in late September 2008. Rick's favorite place was fully booked - as it turned out, by a Rick Steves tour. We stayed at the big box hotel in town, and it was fine - nothing special, but not bad some of the tour folks were staying there, too). It was raining cats and dogs while we were there (felt like a hurricane) so it didn't really matter to us - we just wanted to stay dry.
I found that if you wanted to book your room in advance of your arrival, those two places (Rick's favorite - Pension Mar?, and the big box hotel) were really the only places that you could book. There were probably rooms in private homes (he suggests these in his book) but I wanted to know that our room would be waiting for us when we got there.
If you're going January - March, I suspect room availability should not be challenging (although I'd make sure the places were open).
Posted by
Atlanta
3262 posts
The hotel that Rick recommends is The Mare Salema, Portugal
It's a wonderful place to stay!