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complex. Informality is another appealing aspect of life at the resort, which is rarely found at properties of this status and dimension.
Te five-star Cascade Resort was officially inaugurated Tuesday 28 June in the Ponta da Piedade district of Lagos, in the western Algarve.
Te hotel has 86 rooms, all tastefully designed in line with the theme of the Portuguese Discoveries incorporating the four continents of Asia, Africa, South America and Europe.
“Te Discoveries theme extends to other parts of the hotel, including the spa, bars and restaurants,” explained the resort’s general manager, Urs Wild.
In fact, there’s much to discover at the Cascade Resort, a newly-constructed €100 million development that stretches across 38 hectares of privileged terrain in one of the Algarve’s more upmarket beach locations.
Amongst the guest-rooms there are 23 suites comprising 12 juniors, 7 standards, 2 grands, 1 deluxe and a presidential, the later two boasting a private rooſtop Jacuzzi. And besides sumptuous accommodation, the range of facilities and activities on offer is equally impressive, with tennis and golf academies currently under construction and the Sven-Göran Eriksson children’s football school already proving to be a very popular local atraction.
“Everything will be fully operational by the autumn, including the medical centre which will serve as an extension to all the sports facilities we’ll have on site. Authenticity and diversity are the key words at Cascade Resort, and that is something we really want to get across,” he said.
Guests also appreciate the high level of staff professionalism and the understated luxury that extends throughout the
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“We need to offer something different these days in order to be successful. It’s not about opening a hotel and saying ‘here’s the beach, here’s the sun and here’s the fish on the grill’. Today it’s all about creating concepts and making them work in the long- term. Te success of Cascade Resort will be in the way we operate, in the way we treat people and in the way everything is done,” Urs Wild declared.
Te Vila Galé Palácio dos Arcos (as the hotel will be known) is located at Paço d’ Arcos, a charming town situated midway between Lisbon and the beach resorts of Cascais and Estoril.
Due to be ready by Easter 2013, guests will have the best of both worlds by being able to stay in the peaceful seting of the Estoril Coast (sometimes referred to as the Portuguese Riviera) whilst having quick and easy access to the historic city of Lisbon just 15 minutes away by train or car.
“We decided to make it a five-star hotel because of the fact that the palace is such a prestigious building. Even though Portugal is having a difficult time at the moment, we wanted to press on with this project as a means to helping the country get back on its feet. Tis hotel is certainly going to give impetus to the development of tourism in the micro-region of the Paço d’ Arcos and Oeiras area,” explained Vila Galé Hotels managing director, Jorge Rebelo de Almeida.
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Besides enjoying the hotel’s privileged location, guests will have the chance to stay in the three rooms and two suites to be built upstairs in the original palace building. Te ground-floor of the main building will house the reception, restaurant, bar and library areas.
A new wing to be constructed in the palace gardens will include 71 guest-rooms and the Satsanga spa comprising a heated indoor swimming pool, sauna, Jacuzzi, Turkish bath and massage room.
Te Vila Galé Hotels group recently unveiled plans to build a brand-new five-star hotel, the company’s first top-end property in Portugal. Te new unit represents a €10 million investment for the group and will have 74 rooms and two suites.
Te predominant feature of the hotel is the restoration of an old palace building, the Palácio dos Arcos, which was originally constructed at the end of the 15th century.
Vila Galé currently operates twenty-three hotels in Portugal and Brazil. Future projects include additional units in Évora, in the heart of the Alentejo region, and the historic village of Sintra, west of Lisbon.
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