I stayed at Manuela a few years back. It is a nice hotel, perfect position right on the bech, the rooms were basic but clean, decent bar and restaurant. I did find a couple of problems though. First lt seemed to be catered towards the Irish, not sure if it still is but I found that the Irish got all the best rooms while the British were all in the noisy rooms above the bar. Secondly, we didn't actually spend a lot of time at the hotel, we would spend the day at different laces along the beach and go out and about a lot, also we only used a the bar a few times and becuase of this we found especially towrds the end of our holiday that the staff were not anywhere near a friendly, in fact a couple of time when we did want a drink we were ignored... and once we wanted a drink late and were told the bar was closed, when every other time we saw people coming in at all times being given drinks. I just got the impression hatbecause we didn't spend much money there they didn't want to know.
Anyway that was just my personal experience and maybe it has changed a bit in the years since we went there.
Kedi