On the day of arrival you can enter the house from 4 PM (16:00) and you must vacate the house by 10 AM (10:00) on your departure day. This is to enable us to clean the house before arrival of the next guests.
It is not possible to check in later than 12 AM (24:00). Please make sure you keep this in mind booking your journey/flights. If your original flight is delayed, resulting in your arrival being after 12 AM (24:00), then please contact our house manager as soon as possible.
Payment
At the time of booking a 50% down payment is required. The remaining amount must be paid, together with the security deposit, 8 weeks before arrival in Portugal.
The reservation is fully confirmed once we have received your down payment of 50%.
Rental Fee
The rental fee includes the use of Wi-Fi, water, electricity, TV (Yellow House only), weekly change of beach and bath towels / bed linen and final cleaning. Not included is the wood for the log burner.
The rent is calculated on the number of people staying in the house. If visitors stay overnight during your stay, this is not a problem if the house capacity allows, but there are costs involved. Please report this on arrival or during your stay to the house manager. This also applies to guests who spend long stays in low season in Quinta da Lila.
Interim cleaning and/or change of bedlinen and towels can be arranged on request at a surcharge.
Discounted long stays in low season rates includes weekly cleaning.
Restrictions
Due to the nature of the property, the accommodation is not recommended for children under the age of 12 or people with reduced mobility.
We do not allow pets.
Smoking is not allowed inside the houses.
Security Deposit
You are kindly requested to pay a security deposit with the 2nd payment of the remaining 50% of the rental fee. The security deposit for The Baker’s Cottage and The Granite House is €300,- and for The Yellow House €500,-.
If no damage has been caused by you, this security deposit will be returned to your bank account within 7 days of your departure.
In case of damage, (part of) the security deposit is withheld or additional payment of damage requested.
In case the house is found to be exceptionally dirty and/or disorganized after your departure and our cleaning team need more time to clean and organize the house than can be reasonably expected, we reserve the right to charge an additional cleaning fee, withholding part of the security deposit.
If you expect to receive guests or if you plan to stay with more people than initially booked for, please let us or our house manager know as soon as possible. If you do not communicate this and we discover that more guests were staying in the house than booked for, we reserve the right to charge an additional rental fee, witholding (a part of) the security deposit.
Cancellation
After you have notified us of your (planned) cancellation, we will immediately open our calendars to try to find other guests who want to come in your place. In case we can rent out the full period to other guests, we will refund you the sum of your (down) payment. If we were able to partly rent out the period, we will refund you the amount related to how many days were booked by the new guests. For both cases costs may apply, for example if we need to pay commission to a booking platform. We will always return the security deposit, if this was already paid.
In all circumstances we strongly recommend you to take out a travel insurance which should include cancellation cover.
