Vale do Lobo sits on the ocean — and the ocean sits on your paint. Salt spray films the car within days, cliff dust settles into every gap, and resort parking adds its share of neighbours' doors. Car valeting exists inside the resort; a full studio wash is a different level, and it's minutes away.
Same price for every car size.
A quick valet at the resort keeps a car presentable between uses. What it can't do is decontaminate: salt bonded to paint, brake dust in the wheels, sand in the shuts and sills need studio water, studio light and the full product bench. Our answer is both conveniences at once — we collect free from Vale do Lobo, the car gets the studio treatment on the Estrada de Vale do Lobo five minutes up the road, and comes back insured, dry and finished.
“A resort valet keeps a car presentable between visits, but it can't decontaminate — salt bonded into the paint needs studio water and studio light, not a bucket in the sun. I'd rather see a car every few weeks than have it look merely tidy every day.”
Salt doesn't just dull the shine — it keeps paint and trim damp, accelerates corrosion on fasteners and etches into coatings left unwashed. Coastal cars need regular pH-neutral washes with a proper rinse of shuts, sills and underbody edges. For cars living permanently by the sea we'll be straight with you: ceramic protection plus a wash routine costs less than the paintwork it saves.
While the car is in, the interior can get the deep clean after beach season, leather gets fed, glass gets polished properly so the ocean glare doesn't reveal every wipe streak. Members of the Care Club run this as a standing routine at −50% per wash — many Vale do Lobo households keep two cars on the plan.
Daily — the studio is on the Estrada de Vale do Lobo itself, minutes up the road. Free collection and delivery within 15 km covers the whole resort; the car is insured with us throughout.
Every two to three weeks if it lives outside — salt film builds fast. Coated cars on our Care Club routine come in on schedule at −50% per wash and the coating stays healthy.
That's the point of the late-contact method: pre-wash dissolves and lifts the salt and grit before anything touches the paint, then the hand wash finishes safely.
€75 for the 1-hour express hand wash, €150 for the 3-hour detailed wash, €300 for the 8-hour deep clean — collection from the resort included within the 15 km radius.
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