ill tell ya lots of information to find out on the net, but the one that helped us alot was a blog named algarvesights we just googled it.(we found our hotel and car rental thru that site.)
anyway we booked our hotel ( but its was more of a apartment) this was so nice like their site said (i think it was called apartamentsoportugal id give the link but i dont think im allowed in here.)
it actually felt like home. (but much much cleaner
)we were right along the beach. close to everything. and the golf course pine cliffs we went to was very nice again this one was along the beach. if you couldnt tell we love the beach.
from now on we are going to stay at this same hotel/apartment in quateira unless there is more like it you guys can tell us about.
the other nice thing is that we are living in canada and the site is based in canada and portugal so it was very easy to talk to them from here thru the canadien one. and they also provided us with any extra information we needed about there and actually booked the golf course for us so we didnt have to.
Wellies at the ready folks. 
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on the other post.I'm still trembling and I don't have to use it !! 
