You don't get what you pay for anymore, part two

Both hotels we stayed at in Portugal were 5-star, one of the hotels belonged to Small Leading Hotels of The World.

That such hotels have staff who do not understand English is beyond all criticism. I could be forgiving that they would have problems with mine and my husband's school English but they didn't even understand the offspring who have English as his first language and Swedish as his second language.

He speaks in his sleep in English and every time he gets stressed, he switches to English if he speaks Swedish.

I'm a bit picky about food and would like to remove certain ingredients, had to give up after day 2. To ensure that you got what you wanted, it was safest to point to the menu. On one occasion we had to wait over 2 hours for our food.

The golf courses were absolutely incredible though. Some days we were almost alone on champion courses.