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NomadX: Nomad World Albufeira 🇵🇹

Name: Almádena, Portugal
Start: 2026-04-04
End: 2026-11-25
Location: Almádena, Portugal

October 2026 · $500 / week*

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Private rooms

Coworking included

Flights not included

Capacity
25

Accommodation: Private rooms
Housing: Apartments
Coworking
SIM card
Talks
Workshops

Capacity: 25
Price: $2,000 / month
Minimum stay: 4 weeks

Team

Dave Williams

Co-founder and Chairman, Dave Williams is a serial entrepreneur and investor with several large exits of 360i, SearchIgnite (now IgnitionOne) and BLiNQ Media, digital media and ad tech companies. He now resides in Lisbon, Portugal through their Golden Visa Residency program as he and his wife fell in love with the culture, people and entrepreneurial spirit. Since selling the 360i and IgnitionOne businesses, they have been scaled to global powerhouses in the ad tech space with over 1,000 and 500 employees, respectively. His most recent, BLiNQ Media, was sold to Gannett in late 2012 and named a top 10 transaction that year in NYC.

With a lust for travel, adventure and the outdoors, Williams now spends the majority of his time traveling and acting as a mentor, startup advisor and angel investor. Following the BLiNQ Media sale, Dave has spent the past four years traveling the world and saw an opportunity to improve ease of travel for freelancers, location independent entrepreneurs and remote employees given advancements in smartphones and connectivity. He also has a strong desire to help startups and corporations with employee retention programs incorporating the NomadX lifestyle.

Recent articles and podcasts:
https://hypepotamus.com/people/where-world-dave-williams/
https://hypepotamus.com/people/dave-williams/
https://sellpersonal.com/ep21/

Graham Novak

Motivated by progress and obsessed with excellence, Graham is a passionate entrepreneur and lifelong learner. Bitten by the entrepreneurship bug at a young age, Novak founded his own web development company before starting NomadX with Williams and Allen.

Steven Allen

Co-founder, President and Operational Lead, Steven Allen’s journey to the digital nomad life began at a young age. Hailing from a North Carolina town of fewer than 10,000 residents, Allen spent his youth dreaming of what the rest of the world had in store. As part of a family of entrepreneurs that goes back several generations, he learned sales skills at a young age and began his first ventures selling birdhouses, consulting for local small businesses, and operating the neighborhood lawn service with Fortune 500 precision.

While an undergrad at Washington and Lee University, Allen often heard about the travels and successes of Dave Williams as one of the school’s prominent business alumni, entrepreneur and mentor. They built their relationship around their passion for entrepreneurship, travel and exploration.

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Julia

Easy access to reasonable places!

6 years ago

Reply from NomadX

Thanks for the great feedback!

Charlotte Asks

Very bad experience. I was communicating with one of the landlords in Lisbon. through Nomadx then a message Appeared that “my account was deactivated” this was after having a previous successful booking through nomads it is disappointing that this is how they treat their customers.
They charge the customers a 10% in crease of the normal rent price every month.

Response: i was not the one messing around with the fees. IN fact on of the landlord from your platform, contacted me direclty through Facebook because they did not want to pay the fees. It was one of the landlords on your website.
Anyways, it is easy to find out who the landlords are because they are all on AirBnB. The fees are too high, if they were lower people might be happy to pay them. good luck.

6 years ago

Reply from NomadX

Our apologies for this bad experience but you were flagged for trying to go around payments on the platform which is in violation of our terms of service and community values which is why you were banned.

Jack

Supposed to be a cheaper alternative to Airbnb aimed at nomads (no short-term rentals / one month minimum to book), but the pricing is the same... you're paying at least 2-3 times what a local would pay to rent that space. Just another way for foreigners to get ripped off, and locals to destroy their own housing market (I've yet to meet one person that doesn't complain about rents increasing around Porto, and yet sites like this is why it's happening). Far fewer options than Airbnb, property reviews are almost non-existent, and rental terms are less flexible. I think they need to revise the business model if they're going to compete.

6 years ago

Reply from NomadX

Thanks for the feedback. We appreciate it.

Rose Santos

Until now everything works good.
However you need to inform the guests for the tax from the city (Lisbon).
It's important too, know a little bit more information about the possible gusts, like where they came from, nationality etc.

6 years ago

Reply from NomadX

Hi Rose, Thanks for the feedback! There shouldn’t be a city tax as that’s only for short term and on the site we have profiles of both hosts and guests which includes personal info to help you connect. Wishing you all the best and thanks for your support!

Tiago Mateus

Everything in my Nomadx booking was absolutely flawless. I have been recommending Nomadx to all my friends!

6 years ago

Sofia Pinho

My experience as a host has been great. I've been hosting nice and respectful people. The support from the platform has always been good and helpful. I attended a few events organized by nomadex, and I think the team is amazing.

6 years ago

Reply from NomadX

Thank you so much Sofia! We really appreciate your feedback and partnership.

Sunago House

Easy to find informations and to communicate with the guest!

6 years ago

Reply from NomadX

Many thanks! :)

Melissa Diener

A very useful platform, easy to navigate website with relevant filter options but most importantly, great customer service who really care about the community members` feedback and needs. Can definitely recommend!

6 years ago

Reply from NomadX

Thanks a lot Melissa!

Elena

Overall a good experience, however after sending the payment details yesterday, i didnt receive yet a confirmaTion from NomadX, only from the accommodation. Thanks

6 years ago

Reply from NomadX

Hi Elena, apologies once again for that. We had a bug on our system that prevented you from receiving the confirmation but we are glad to confirm that it has now been fixed and that you already received your booking confirmation. Thanks for your patience and apologies once again for the inconvenience.

Gabor Lieber

Great service, nice listings and fast response from hosts. We booked a whole month for staying in Porto. The process was straightforward and I got quick confirmation of the reservation. Would definitely recommend for trying out!

6 years ago