Name: Alvor Baia Resort Hotel
Price range: from £396.60pp (7 nights includes flights and transfers)

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Great family holiday at the Alvor Baia.
We had visited beautiful Alvor in 2023, so were familiar with the surroundings.

Hotel room was clean, modern and spacious with a huge balcony overlooking the sports courts which my sons made heavy use of!

Plenty to do activity wise within the hotel and it is within easy reach of the beach and bustling village on foot or by cheap Uber if you prefer.

Weather fabulous for October, we were very lucky.  
Would recommend for families or single adults travelling with or without children.

Great stay

A terrible experience at this hotel and, having travelled fairly extensively, this is hands down the worst place I have stayed at. I found the hotel to be very intolerant of children, and in particular, one member of the animation team who was close to abusive.

Location wise it’s an unpleasant walk to the old town. Would 100% not recommend. There’s so much choice in this area - please choose better than Alvor Baia.

Avoid, avoid, avoid

The hotel is kept very clean as are the bedrooms. Our room overlooked the car park and there was absolutely no issue with noise. A large balcony with 2 chairs and table.

There is hardly any storage in the bedrooms, 4 small drawers, we struggled as 2 adults, so a family of four its almost impossible.  Relatively small complaint - but nowhere near enough coat hangers as mentioned in an earlier review. For a 4* hotel, surely they could provide more!  

The food is excellent with a very large choice in both the adult only restaurant and the family restaurant.  BUT if like our family you are hoping to eat all together (6 adults and 2 children) don’t use this hotel. The family restaurant was chaos, made worse by youth sports groups attending and appearing to have no manners at all.  They just pushed and shoved to get to the food, it was more like a school canteen on our first night and we felt very disappointed. The remaining nights were a little more civilised but the queues for food in the family restaurant were ridiculous, by the time we sat down with our food it was mostly cold.  It led to us taking it in turns to visit the quieter adult restaurant and taking turns to eat with the children.  I think all in all for the size of the hotel, there needs to be more than 2 restaurants. Also the age limit for children going into the civilised restaurant was 10 years old. Our grandchildren are aged 7 and 10 and are more than capable of behaving at the table.  This was a MAJOR drawback to what could have been an otherwise pleasant stay.

The pool area was very good, plenty of sun beds but that could have been because the weather was fairly poor.  The hotel definitely needs much more indoor space for chillier weather. 

Three of our party used the indoor pool at an extortionate price which we thought would be worth it, not so, tiles were missing from the walls of the pool and appeared to be making little piles on the side of the pool. The water jets in the pool didn’t work properly, a member of staff had to keep constantly coming in to literally thump them to work each time. One of the water beds was actually roped off with red tape because it was totally broken in half, it looked like a crime scene!  The sensory showers were excellent.

Entertainment poor expect for the last night when there were traditional Portuguese dancers.

I wouldn’t visit this hotel again.

Give it a miss!

Where to start. I read so many reviews before booking and I’m going to start by saying it has the potential to become a really good hotel…. HOWEVER it has a long way to go. 

There is zero atmosphere across the hotel especially the bars, when you want a holiday relaxed vibe you get more airport lounge. One night we decided we had enough of the extremely poor all inclusive booze and embarked on the paid bar expecting a better experience. We couldn’t have been more wrong. I asked the bar man if we could have some music on and the response was why, I told him I’d like some vibe and he said it wasn’t high season and there was a tele on the wall. Long story short I told him he was arrogant and he seemed very nonchalant. 

The food is average at best and if you like an experience of all the family sitting together you can think again, it was chaos and the food was mainly cold 90% of the time. It was like an assault course getting to and from the serving areas and the noise levels were crazy loud. 

The rooms were very clinical with very little storage areas and the noise from the corridors were excessively echoed at all hours. 

Children’s entertainment was abysmal and very hit and miss with little engagement. 

The cost to use the spa and gym (which is very basic and unstaffed) is totally not worth it for a few dumbbells and 4 pieces of cardio equipment. 

Positives: bus services to the beach is great and supermarkets a short walk away. Pools are good if that’s your thing and park was good and uncover to shade the little ones.

Soulless, needs work

I was going to give five stars till I met that arrogant woman in morning. It was my last day everyone was thankful to me when I told them I that today is my last day in hotel but I was so disappointed when this arrogant LADY..... Yeah this is her name... She just picked sauce from my table when I was eating.  I said I didn't finish... She made face and just went away.  This is her behavior.I kept her watching.. She was so picky... Almost irritating everyone....My group named her MRS OBJECTION. I was avoiding her because she works in blue restaurant mostly but my bad luck that day Blue restaurant was close.... God knows why?  My fellow friends told me she's rude.... And yeah SHE IS RUDE.  Besides all this hotel got clean rooms. Average food. Helpful staff. Kitchen staff doesn't know English at all,  but they help you. Children enjoy because no restrictions for them.  Special vegetarian section... That's good. Most of all you can order special order if you like. Large parking lot and bigger swimming pool ever.... But water is cold. Finally It was all good... Nice stay in reasonable price. 

All good 

Situated near the village of Alvor's historic centre, beaches and golf courses, the commercial area, and the Portimão marina, this hotel is in a prime location. All the amenities, combined with a draft design; this hotel was created to provide guests with a perfect, unforgettable holiday. It includes a full range of services, including the magnificent 100 m pool, 2 padle courts, children's playground (Pirate Ship), several restaurants, bars, meeting rooms, multipurpose room, a Spa with a heated swimming pool, Turkish bath, sauna, and massage. It also includes indoor and outdoor parking.

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