Casa Cruz do Mar

You hear the water
before you see it

Two floors, facing the ocean, with a rooftop terrace that gets the sunset every clear evening.

Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and one big open room where the kitchen, the eating and the sitting all happen together. That room is where everyone ends up.

The kitchen and the bathrooms were rebuilt in 2025. The windows stay open most of the year, including October. There is fibre internet if you need to work, and nothing at all to do if you don't.

Santa Cruz beach is a short walk down the steps. The supermarket, the bakery and about fifteen places to eat are closer than that.

Winter, for
as long as you like

From November to the end of February we let the whole place by the month.

The coast does not close in winter, it empties. Same house, same view, no crowds on the beach and no queue anywhere. Storms roll in for two hours and then leave.

It suits people who work from a laptop, surfers who want a season rather than a week, and anyone who would rather spend January here than in the dark.

• February 2027 — available now, by the week or the month
• November 2027 – end of February 2028 — open for monthly bookings
• Fibre internet — works for video calls, we have tested it
• Dogs welcome — the beach is empty in winter, which they prefer too

Ask about winter

Thirteen blue flag beaches,
and almost no queue

Santa Cruz doesn't try to impress you.

No tuk-tuks, no queue for coffee. Cliffs, a wide beach and the Atlantic doing its thing all year round. Forty-five minutes from Lisbon airport, and almost nobody outside Portugal knows the name.

• Penedo do Guincho — the rock in the water. Thirty metres of Jurassic sandstone with an arch at the bottom you can walk through at low tide.
• Ericeira — Europe's only World Surfing Reserve, thirty minutes down the coast.
• Óbidos — a walled medieval town forty minutes north, with ginjinha served in a chocolate cup.
• Buddha Eden — the largest oriental garden in Europe, across a hillside of vineyards.