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Dates and prices, contact details, online booking 1/8 BOOK PRICES Rates below are in Euros per night for a stay of 3 to 6 nights for 2 people . For shorter or longer stays check availabilities and prices by clicking below "book here" or send us an email. Contact us if planning to book more than 4 rooms. Convento is open to guests from March to October. 2026______________________________________ Mar to Jun to Oct May Sep Double 160 185 160 Large Double 175 210 175 Suite 190 230 190 Rooftop cabin 175 210 175 2026 rates excluding Municipal Tourist Tax . For more information check " book here " . Our prices include home-made breakfast; please let us know in advance if you prefer vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and/or lactose-free . Children over thirteen welcome; for families with younger children please contact us for alternative accommodation. No air conditioning : natural cross ventilation, fans, closing windows and shutters on hot days. Under floor heating on cold nights. Rooftop cabins have luggage restrictions (only cabin-size) due to the narrow staircase. No pets , sorry. book here If any question, click on our email below: We expect to respond your enquiry at our earliest convenience, during the next 24 hours. conventoolhao@gmail.com Convento hotline: +351 912 46 32 33 (telephone call to Portuguese mobile network) Every phone call is welcome, but we like to keep this number for desperate guests stuck on an island or lost in Olhao. For booking enquiries, please use our booking system or email.

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Filipe Monteiro You will be in good hands My favorite things to do here Beach. Sketching. Tenis. Walk. Having a drink. My favorite restaurants VAI E VOLTA - Grilled fish - only lunch time. Tip: Go early (12h) O GALO - Eclectic dishes - only supper time. Tip: Reserve in advance PRAZERES - Sea food & others To Do Beach. Because I love the Sea the Sun and tranquility one of my favorites thing to do is to take a boat to the Islands (Armona / Culatra / Farol or Deserta) and after 5 min walk being completely alone commuting with the nature. You can eat in any Island. BOATS SKEDULLE . Sketching Sketching in a good creative ambiance on Thursdays Morning with Jill one great resident artist (w/nude models). To reserve +351 934 840 176 Tenis (playing or learning) anytime with Paulo Mestre in the camping Tenis Court (he picks you and deliver if you don't have car). To reserve +351 919 713 459 Walk Walk around bird watch with PERNATUR (swipe their home page up to more info. Having a drink Having a drink in the evening at Cantalupe (jazz bar) in the sea front or Catita 's bar by night (eclectic music, young atmosphere) in the main avenue in front of the vegetable market.

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1/4 WHEN The Eastern Algarve has a kind climate, where fruits, vegetables, animals and people live happy lives. Olhão enjoys around 300 days of sunshine each year. It does rain sometimes, but rarely for too long. Winters are mild, and Convento has underfloor heating throughout. Spring is long, as is summer, when a shady corner or a splash in the pool become very welcome. At this time, there are festivities all around the Algarve with the peak in August when Olhão hosts the Festival do Marisco, the largest seafood feast in the country. Autumn is often glorious: the year before last we were still swimming off Culatra on November 15th.

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1/4 WHAT Convento is a few light, white, airy bedrooms. A townhouse, a family home, a place to be yourself. Convento is a roof terrace to gaze over the sea and the white roofs of Olhão. Two miradouros, a place to catch the soft sea breeze. Convento is a hidden courtyard and a smiling fountain under the high southern sky. A pattern of hand made tiles in washed indigo, a whitewashed bench, a place to read, and chat, and think. Convento is our home, where you’re welcome to make yourself at home. PRESS 2017 THE TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES They centre on an open courtyard where pink bougainvillea blooms up three storeys to the blue skies above. Up the winding stone staircase is a rooftop pool and white sofas from where, across the flat roofs of the squat Moorish townhouses, you can watch the sun sink into the lagoon. Mary Lussiana . 19 Aug 2017 2016 THE GUARDIAN The best hotels in Portugal for under £100 a night A leading (if reclusive) Portuguese architect and his family run Convento, a very sexy riad-style, nine-bedroom ex-convent house hidden in the medina of this charming, salty fishing town. Kevin Gould . 18 Jun 2016 2015 JAMIE OLIVER MAGAZINE Come Cook with us in Portugal! Olhão is a hidden gem, so we’ve chosen it again for its amazing markets, undersea clam fields, its easy access to Faro International Airport, and, of course, its gorgeous, sensual boutique hotel. Convento is exclusively ours for this weekend. Jamie Magazine, 12 Jan 2015 2014 THE TELEGRAPH The top 5 food and drink holidays in Portugal Shellfish in the Ria Formosa If you want to try your hand at digging for raz or clams or finding cockles and mussels, try the warm waters of the Ria Formosa. Recently named one of the seven natural wonders of Portugal, the Ria Formosa Nature Reserve is made up of lagoons, marshes, saltpans, islets and channels on the south coast...” Mary Lussiana, 23 Dez 2014 2014 THE GUARDIAN Five little-known gems in Portugal Ria Formosa, Algarve Good for: unspoilt beaches and natur e Most people head west from Faro airport unaware of the peaceful, estuarine national park – a twitchers’ heaven – on its eastern fringes. The laidback fishing town of Olhão feels a world away from Algarve’s tourist droves; beyond it is the car-free sand island of Culatra. Gaby Koppel. 10 May 2014 2014 THE GUARDIAN Walking the Algarve: to Portugal’s land’s end The Algarve Way has walked us through deliciously old places with their fine old ways. As the magnesium-fringed clouds glow on the horizon, the sea’s surface turns to burnished chain mail. Kevin Gould. 11 May 2014

Convento, Olhao, Algarve, B&B in Southern Portugal. Spacious rooms in the old fishing town by the sea.  (photo by helen mason) 1/4 Convento Olhão Convento is a few light, white, airy bedrooms. A townhouse, a family home, a place to be yourself. Convento is a roof terrace to gaze over the sea and the white roofs of Olhão. Two miradouros, a place to catch the soft sea breeze. Convento is a hidden courtyard and a smiling fountain under the high southern sky. A pattern of hand made tiles in washed indigo, a whitewashed bench, a place to read, and chat, and think. Convento is our home, where you are welcome to make yourself at home. For prices and booking see BOOK

My favorite things to do here Walk My favorite restaurants A do FERNANDO - Restaurant "Á do Fernando" Grilled fish in a local ambience. Out of season only lunch time. Closed Sundays. Eleonore Lefebure My best recommend To Do Walk A good day in the Islands with a picnic. Take the boat to any island and don't forget water, sun cream, hat, and of course the picnic. Easy to do easy to buy in town. If you prefer you can use one of the restaurants in the islands.

1/4 WHY It’s a love thing... We fell happily in love with this town’s beautiful, crumbling homes. We hoped that with the proper love we could breathe new life into their proud old stones. We found that the block of high blank walls a few steps away from our houses and apartments held more than just cats and rubble. Once, Convento was where village girls working in Olhão’s thriving canning industry would live. Convento was a safe place, a place where the girls’ dormitories circled a peaceful cloister, a place of sanctuary from their hectic work lives. Slowly, carefully, we have re-imagined this space. What were dormitories are now spacious light-filled bedrooms, with high wooden ceilings that allow the air to stay fresh, and your dreams to soar. We’ve fashioned bathrooms from blush-veined Alentejo marble. A quiet corner has become a library: please do leave us a book or two... What was a fish salting vault is now our kitchen and refectory, from where we offer breakfasts of olives grown in the hills that fringe the town, and Alentejo cheeses from the market, and just-baked breads, and local hand-stirred jams, and Algarve dried fruits soaked in citrus, and sweet juice from the heavy oranges of Dona Celestina’s trees. For prices and booking see BOOK

Warning! You may fall in love with Olhão after these. My favorite things to do here Walk around My favorite restaurants ESTAMINÉ - Eating lunch at Restaurante Estaminé in island Deserta, open until 19:00 (17:30 during the low season) To Do Walk around Going for a late evening walk to look at the sunset or a night time walk to look at the stars, and perhaps grab an Ice cream at Gelateria Gelvi (by the sea front market) to eat along the way. Visiting Fábrica do Queijo to buy national and local delicacies such as cheese, canned fish from Olhão, and others... to eat at the beach or home terrace with a nice glass of wine.

Double room Rooftop Ermelinda bathroom 1/15 WHICH Convento’s bedrooms are located around a central patio on the ground and first floors of an old restored building. Two Rooftop rooms are accessed by a traditional winding staircase leading to the roof terrace. Each room has a double bed (which can be separated into 2 twin beds), a seating area, a private bathroom with shower, and is equipped with a silent ceiling fan and floor heating, but no air conditioning . There is WIFI but, for a more serene stay, no TV . Bedrooms Double (Odelinda & Otilia) Double rooms are among our most secret rooms, tucked away on the side of the patio. One of our first guests called them the “Novice” rooms. 28 sqm Large Double (Nascimenta & Natevidade) Large Double rooms are luminous, south facing, with large traditional wooden doors opening onto the patio, as well as sliding windows. These rooms have a spacious seating area. We baptised them the “Mother Superior” rooms. 32 sqm Suite (Salgadinha, Sezaltina & Edvirgem) Suites are the grandest rooms of Convento. Their gilded bathroom, large draping curtains and translucent fabrics are worthy of bishops. The comfortable seating area is discreetly separated from the bedroom. 45 sqm Rooftop cabin (Natercia & Ermelinda) Rooftop cabins will touch the romantic in you. These 2 rooms preside over the Ria Formosa and are brushed by its cooling breezes. One of them (Ermelinda) has its own small private patio with outdoor seating, the other one (Natercia) has a sea view. Only for those travelling light: you will find it impossible to carry large luggage up the narrow staircase. 20-22 sqm For prices and booking see BOOK