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Algarve Marriott Salgados Golf Resort & Spa
Albufeira, Portugal · Marriott · Accessible Luxury
For years this was the NAU Salgados Palace. Highgate moved it under Marriott in September 2024, renovated through the winter, and reopened it in May 2025 as the biggest conference operation on the Algarve coast: 228 rooms and suites over the beach and the golf course, and an auditorium seating 1,598. Four outdoor pools and a spa with a heated pool came with the rebuild. Out past the fairways sits the Salgados lagoon, where flamingos feed and more than 200 bird species have been recorded.
- 228 rooms
- Opened 2025
- Neighborhood: Salgados
- Rooms from 441 sq ft (41 m²)
About Algarve Marriott Salgados Golf Resort & Spa
- The auditorium seats 1,598, the centrepiece of what the resort calls the largest conference centre in the Algarve, with the beach and the golf course visible from the meeting rooms.
- Four hotels on this one estate changed names in a single announcement in September 2024, when Highgate moved its Salgados portfolio under Marriott. They were the company's first Portuguese properties to carry Marriott brands.
- Guia, the village just inland, was formally designated Portugal's capital of piri-piri chicken by the government in 1999. Ramires has been grilling it there since 1964.
History
This hotel spent its earlier life as the NAU Salgados Palace, the largest house on the Herdade dos Salgados estate west of Albufeira, built around a conference business rather than around a beach club. On 26 September 2024 Highgate, which manages the estate's hotels, announced that four of its Salgados properties would be rebranded under Marriott International: this one, the neighbouring Palm Village as Marriott Residences Salgados Resort, the Dunas Suites as The Westin Salgados Beach Resort, and the Westin's residences. They were the first Highgate-managed hotels in Portugal to fly Marriott flags. NAU São Rafael Atlântico, further along the coast, went to Kimpton in the same round.
Renovations started in late 2024 and covered public spaces, guest rooms and the food and beverage outlets. The hotel reopened in May 2025, announced as the Algarve Marriott Salgados Golf Resort & Conference Centre and now trading as the Golf Resort & Spa, keeping the thing that always set it apart: an auditorium of 1,598 seats and enough flexible meeting space to claim the largest conference centre in the region, with beach and golf views from the windows. The 228 rooms run across five floors and every one has a balcony over the gardens, the pools, the golf course or the sea. Interiors work in natural materials and colours taken from the coastline. Guests get four outdoor pools, a spa with a heated pool, jacuzzi and treatment rooms, and an M Club lounge. The Wellness Hub Salgados sits between this resort and the Marriott Residences next door, and the Salgados golf course runs alongside.
The setting
Herdade dos Salgados is a stretch of coast between Albufeira and Armação de Pêra that was farmland within living memory and is now golf, dunes and resorts. The golf course lies on one side of the hotel, Praia dos Salgados and the Atlantic on the other, and wrapped around both is the Reserva Natural dos Salgados. Lagoa dos Salgados, a shallow reed-fringed lagoon of roughly fifty hectares fed by the Espiche and Vale Rabelho streams and held back from the sea by an unbroken dune cordon, is one of the most serious birdwatching sites in the central Algarve: more than 200 species logged, purple swamphens, black-winged stilts, Caspian terns, spoonbills and greater flamingos. A boardwalk runs the south bank from the Praia Grande car park. Inland is Guia, then the N125; Albufeira old town is a short drive east and Faro airport about forty minutes.
Amenities
- Pool 1 – outdoor
- Spa and wellness center
- Airport shuttle
- Non-smoking rooms
- Fitness center
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Facilities for disabled guests
- Bar
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