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Respect for others is what makes the Quinta da Horta special!

Dress Code

The Quinta is a clothing optional environment, everyone is free to wear as much or as little as they want at any given time. Please respect the dress choices of others.

The only time we insist on any clothing is in the main house, where we ask that your lower body is covered, a wrap, towel or shorts, simply to protect the soft furnishings.

Use of Shared Facilities

The shared facilities, everything that is not in your cottage, are there to be shared so please:

• care for them better than your own
• leave them cleaner than you found them
• leave them ready for your fellow guests to use
• be prepared to allow for others, who may need or wish to use them too

Behaviour

The Quinta is small community and we ask that all guests behave with respect to others by allowing them to enjoy the Quinta their own way. Remember all our guests are entitled to privacy and to having an enjoyable time:

• noise intrudes everywhere in earshot
• not everyone has the same taste in music
• not everyone will enjoy the joke
• not everyone has the same sexual values and behaviour

Photography

We like to take photographs of our holidays. If we are taking pictures in a textile resort no one minds being in the background .. getting them out of the foreground is hard enough!

We allow digital (not film) photography within the Quinta. It must be done openly.

Any guest can ask to see all the photographs in the memory to ensure that there are no unsuitable images of them. In the event of someone being unhappy, please respect their wishes and delete the picture without argument.

Conversely if someone is taking a photograph, please respect their choice and give them room to do so if asked. If you are 'caught' in someone's picture ask yourself, could you be identified from this picture? and would it cause you harm before exercising the right to have it deleted.

The Line in the Sand

The Quinta is a family environment, as such:

• public sexual displays or behaviour,
• use of a concealed camera or other recording device,
• violent behaviour physical or verbal, 
• wilful or negligent damage to the Quinta, the grounds, the equipment or other peoples property

will result in the perpetrators being asked to leave immediately without a refund.