Albufeira Sol Hotel and Spa

We had a wonderful 7-night experience at the Albufeira Sol & Spa Hotel. Overall, it is a very good 4-star hotel with great facilities, Our room was clean and comfortable room. The main buffet offered a very good variety of food throughout our stay. Our only small suggestion for improvement would be the wine served at the buffet, which could be a bit better quality. A LA CARTE RESTAURANT GRILL: The free included night at the restaurant was a major highlight! The menu was fantastic, offering excellent options for starters, main courses, and desserts, along with a top-notch wine list. I had the Portuguese Style Steak the best steak I’ve had in all my years visiting the Algarve, cooked to perfection by Chef CARINA. My partner had the Codfish, which was also delicious. A special mention goes to CARLOS at the restaurant his service was exceptionally professional it was amazing to watch how efficiently he managed all the guests without making anyone wait.

How do I rate this hotel 0. We arrived at 22.30, the male receptionist was not the friendliest. When we went to room 247 it was like something from the 70s. Rugs on the floor, low bath with some type of tape stuck to bottom so you wouldn't slip. A show you had to climb in the bath and it blew water everywhere. Ants on the floor. We gave up complaing as nothing got done.The View was of waste ground,and some very nice villas that seem to have parties every night. The entertainment was aimed at the children and the French guest. Atmosphere none existence. In the 2 weeks we stayed we had two singers not in English and a local folk group. We have stayed in lots of hotels all inclusive, the food was always hot, not here always the same for breakfast, dinner and tea. I reported one french lady for picking pineapple up with her hands and the picked up a hand full of jully sniffed it and put it back in the serving dish. They did remove it. Would we recommend this hotel NEVER. The only people that enjoy it Is family's and there children as there are taken care of and the French. Lost of the English Guest felt the same.

Arrived at hotel about 12, told room wasn't ready until 4pm. The receptionist said she would ring us. We went back after 4pm told the room had just became available, we were given room 203, the whole balcony was blocked by an olive tree, absolutely no view! We also had little room as two air conditioning units sat making loads of noise and taking up too much room. We complained to a Manager, who did absolutely nothing. The room was ok, plenty of space, the bathroom however was very tired the toilet every time you flushed sounded like a cat being strangled!!

The staff at this hotel had no interest in British guests, the animation team only spoke each day in Portuguese and French, making joining in impossible. The aqua aerobics each day was impossible, there would be loads of kids dive bombing into the same area where this was being done, this should had been cordoned off for this period.

This hotel was definitely not British friendly, we had gone as a 4 older women thinking schools would be back, however tons of kids, whose parents left to run feral whilst on their phones!!

Food wasnt the best, swimming with oil, and for some unusual reason, chopped pineapple was added to every salad!! The restaurant would close off sections randomly 🙄 no air con there either, think they thought if you were too hot you would leave quickly! Also our 2 cousins who had booked a week there were allowed a specialist meal, but as we were there for 5 dsys we were not!!

This hotel is a concrete block, stuck.out of the way, never seen the sea or beach ⛱️ in the 5 days we stayed. Would I return absolutely not, we loved Ben the barman on the pool bar, but no other member of staff were remotely friendly or even cracked a smile!