The thermostats can be counted on to deliver up to about 110 degrees of heat quietly. And the food in the restaurant is quite good. Dozens of them seem to be everywhere waiting to provide assistance when asked and to offer it when not asked. Almost all of them are tall, trim and muscular and have olive skin, black hair and very white teeth. They're good-looking, but the uniformity is a little unsettling.
Reason suggests they are the products of attractive parents and good nutrition.
But it is understandable that one might suspect the Penha Longa creates its employees in a secret lab in which scientists mix the genetic material of George Clooney with that of Antonio Banderas and Tom Cruise. It's good that the staff are courteous and friendly, because I'm not sure some of them would have been hired for the clarity of their thinking. A bell hop confided that he and his girlfriend had been concerned because they didn't want to have children but her period was late. But they decided to relax because it had happened before. The previous month.