The house, the garden, the pool — and us
The pool is eight metres by four, and you can stand up everywhere — between 1.20 and 1.60 metres deep. With no more than four guests ever staying in the house, you will never share it with a crowd. Around the pool is a green garden — grass, shade, quiet corners — which, in the Algarve, is not a given.
The house is all on one level: not a single step between your room and the pool.
The house has fibre broadband, and the Wi-Fi covers the accommodation, the apatam, the garden and the poolside — enough to take a video call, watch a series or work if you need to.
Breakfast is served under the apatam, at one shared table — a chance for guests to meet. Fresh orange juice, bread, jams, cheese, cold meats, fruit, eggs.
We are Claudine and Francis
We are both Belgian. After a life in Africa, we settled in Carvoeiro in 2000 and now welcome you into our home.
We are not a hotel: we welcome you ourselves, then give you the space to enjoy your holiday. We speak French — and we get by in Portuguese, English and Dutch. Our cats roam freely — they are part of the house and often come over to meet people.
Why “Casa Somba”?
In northern Benin, where we lived, the Batammariba — also known as the Somba — build astonishing earthen fortress-houses: the Tata Somba, literally “Somba house”.
When we settled here, in a climate that reminded us of Africa, the name suggested itself: Casa Somba means exactly that, in Portuguese.
