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The Westin Salgados Beach Resort, Algarve
Albufeira, Portugal · Westin · Accessible Luxury
This was the NAU Salgados Dunas Suites, 151 rooms and suites on the dune line, until Highgate rebranded it under Westin in September 2024 and reopened it in May 2025 as something deliberately smaller: 95 rooms and suites, with the rest of the stock carved into residences. What came with the flag is the wellness apparatus, a Heavenly Spa, a WestinWORKOUT studio and marked RunWESTIN routes through the dunes, plus six outdoor pools and direct access to the beach. Behind the resort the dunes give way to the Salgados lagoon.
- 95 rooms
- Opened 2025
- Neighborhood: Salgados
- Rooms from 291 sq ft (27 m²)
About The Westin Salgados Beach Resort, Algarve
- Lagoa dos Salgados, on the far side of the dunes, is the only site in the Algarve where greater flamingos have ever attempted to breed, and one of the few anywhere in the region with regular sightings of the ferruginous duck.
- The rebrand shrank the hotel on purpose. The 151 rooms of the old NAU Salgados Dunas Suites became 95 rooms and suites plus a set of branded residences.
- Four hotels on this one estate were rebranded in a single September 2024 announcement, when Highgate moved its Salgados portfolio under Marriott. They were the company's first Portuguese properties to carry Marriott brands.
- Guia, the village in the hotel's postal address, was formally designated Portugal's capital of piri-piri chicken by the government in 1999.
History
The building spent its earlier life as the NAU Salgados Dunas Suites, a five-star hotel on the dunes at Herdade dos Salgados with 151 rooms and suites, six pools including two for children, gardens of palm and olive, a spa, and a rooftop bar. NAU spent over a million euros refurbishing every room and reopened it in May 2019.
Five years later it changed hands in name if not in management. On 26 September 2024 Highgate, which runs the estate's hotels, announced that four of its Salgados properties would move under Marriott International, and this one drew the Westin flag. Renovations began late in 2024, covering public spaces, guest rooms and the restaurants and bars, and the resort reopened in May 2025 as The Westin Salgados Beach Resort, Algarve. The arithmetic is the interesting part: 151 rooms became 95 rooms and suites, with the remainder converted into branded residences sold alongside the hotel. Sources put the residence count at either 42 or 60.
Westin brings its own wellness programme wherever it goes, and all of it landed here: a Heavenly Spa, a WestinWORKOUT fitness studio, RunWESTIN routes mapped from the door, and a Westin Kids Club. Six outdoor pools and direct access to Praia dos Salgados came with the site.
The setting
The resort sits on the dune cordon at Praia dos Salgados, between Albufeira and Armação de Pêra, with the Salgados golf course inland and the Atlantic in front. The whole setting is inside 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, is the reason birdwatchers drive here from across the region: more than 200 species recorded, and the only place in the Algarve where greater flamingos have ever tried to nest. A raised boardwalk runs the lagoon's south bank from the Praia Grande car park, and a track on the west shore reaches a viewpoint over most of the open water. The postal address is Guia, the village inland that Portugal knows for piri-piri chicken. Albufeira old town is a short drive east, Faro airport about forty minutes.
Restaurants and bars
- In Season Restaurant | The Westin Salgados — Restaurant · Buffet
- Cusco Bar — Bar · Bar
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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