Sofas

VON VON · Post by **VON VON** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:20 pm

sorry don't know the opening times but they seem to have a permament promotion on, we also got our cream leather sofas from here and we also were impresssed with the service delivery etc. Dining room table and chairs, bed and mattresses were bought from a little furniture place in Porches. 1st road on the left after turning into road just up from the International school.

ALSO would advise to buy furniture in Portugal there are some good places dotted around, just a case of looking, failing that go across the border to Seville / IKEA, we bought some items of small furniture, pictures, kitchen crockery etc from there. We had a look in the UK so see what we wanted and then flew into Seville drove past IKEA picked it up and after 2.5 hours it was all in the villa.

Happy Shopping

von von

Mike Banks · Post by **Mike Banks** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:30 pm

We just took delivery of two sofas from SofaVIP. The girls in the showroom were very helpful, and the delivery men were extremely friendly and diligent. They had a lot of difficulty getting them into our apartment, but succeeded with some ingenuity, and none of the swearing that would have accompanied the process in the UK.

blue · Post by **blue** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:45 pm

We went to sofa vip & the staff were very helpful & the sofa's beautiful but we thought expensive. We actually found it better value to buy in the UK & freight out. Same for dining room table & chairs.

Elaine · Post by **Elaine** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:20 pm

Just been out to CVO and taken delivery of our sofas ordered in September.
Delivery would have been on time had the driver not gone in the wrong direction from CVO. We are only 5 mins down the road and had given them a good map but the driver had to ring twice to ask the way. Eventually, they arrived and the packaging was removed and taken away.What a difference they make to the lounge. Think we are now finished with furnishings but would definitely use Sofavip again.

Scorpion · Post by **Scorpion** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:27 pm

Do Sofavip sell sofa beds? Had a look at the ones in Conforama when we were over at christmas and didn't think much to theirs.

tbbr · Post by **tbbr** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:31 pm

SOFA VIP do sell sofa bed versions of some of their furniture, it will be at least double the price of conforama, assume Moviflor would be simlilar to conforama but maybe worth a look. ( Portimao retail park )

Scorpion · Post by **Scorpion** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:42 pm

Thanks not been to Portimao for a while (we lost my son's "trainer" cup when we were there last time and he is 14 now) - is the retail park easy to find?

Peter Belinfante · Post by **Peter Belinfante** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:39 am

Scorpion wrote:Do Sofavip sell sofa beds? Had a look at the ones in Conforama when we were over at christmas and didn't think much to theirs.

Why don't you take a look at IKEA? (I know they have sofa-beds)

http://www.ikea.com

You could go to Lisboa or Sevilla.

Good hunt,
Peter

Scorpion · Post by **Scorpion** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:58 am

Thanks.

Mike Banks · Post by **Mike Banks** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:43 am

We bought two sofas from Sofavip last year, one of which was a sofabed. It is superb, but it was 1168 euros. However, I think you get what you pay for, and this is very comfortable and well-made. On some of the cheaper ones which we looked at the mechanism appeared flimsy by comparison.

The Portimao Retail Park has its own exit off the N125, just west of the main Portimao exit - you can't miss it.

Scorpion · Post by **Scorpion** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:57 am

Thanks - we have a sofa bed which came with the property but it really needs recovering - Had a quote of E650 for recovering this and two arm chairs which seems steep to me - just looking around at the option of a new sofabed - but as you say they are not cheap for good quality. Already have a double and 2 single beds in the apartment so the sofa bed will only be used when we have more than 4 staying - which wont be often. May stick with what we have.

tbbr · Post by **tbbr** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:58 pm

Sofa VIP still have 40% off promotion, just like DFS !

CA & CM · Post by **CA & CM** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:01 pm

Sofa VIP is usually open 10.00 - 19.00 every day except Sunday, when its 14.00 - 18.00. Hope this helps, if its wrong I apologise in advance but accept no liability! We furnished almost all of the cottage there. Have fun

wizzo · Post by **wizzo** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:39 pm

Thanks to everyone for all the info.

After a long weekend trawling all the shops and retail parks, we have finally got round to ordering sofas and a bed.

I agree with all the postings on here about Sofa VIP, Sylvia couldn't have been more helpful, I would recommend the shop to anyone.

However ended up ordering from Brit Sofa, purely on personal design preference (my wifes!). Seem to remember seeing Brit Sofa mentioned on here before but can't find any comments good or otherwise, has anyone on this forum brought furniture there?

I now have two very very worn

but comfy sofas (3 str + 2 str) to give away. If they are of any use to anyone -maybe as a stop gap- they will be available to collect end of May. Also two odd single beds will be available the same time.