RR Alvor Baía Resort

“Brilliant Family Holiday”

Excellent family holiday. We travelled with our 4 year old. The Hotel was very clean. Cleaners working day and night to keep the place looking and feeling fresh. Room was perfect, with a dividing wall between the living area / kitchen and main bedroom. Food was as you’d expect with all inclusive. A… more

Excellent family holiday. We travelled with our 4 year old. The Hotel was very clean. Cleaners working day and night to keep the place looking and feeling fresh. Room was perfect, with a dividing wall between the living area / kitchen and main bedroom. Food was as you’d expect with all inclusive. A tad repetitive at times but we were always able to find something to eat. Downside to the eating area was that it did get very loud and over stimulating at times for children! Perhaps an outside eating area would be something that could be considered…? Ice creams available between 1600-1730hrs in the downstairs restaurant. Pool was perfect for Children along with a park. We tried the kids club twice for 1hr and our child had a great time. Overall a really positive experience having seen some of the reviews prior to travelling, we were concerned but we can’t fault it. Tip - Sunbeds - Get the ones with the Hotel name printed on the top, these are the newer ones. The older ones are quite low and hard. Uber operates in the area and it’s only €5 for a Taxi to Alvor. Would definitely recommend going into the Town one evening, it has a nice vibe and breaks the week up. Beach shuttle operates daily too - schedule attached to the photos.

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“Good hotel, only let down is the food”

The hotel is great. The pool is huge. Sometimes in the middle of the day it can get a bit crowded but not often. Loads of space and sunbeams if that's your thing, but can be difficult to find some shade. Rooms are large and comfortable, having a fridge in there was very handy. There are loads of… more

The hotel is great. The pool is huge. Sometimes in the middle of the day it can get a bit crowded but not often. Loads of space and sunbeams if that's your thing, but can be difficult to find some shade. Rooms are large and comfortable, having a fridge in there was very handy. There are loads of beaches in the area, Alvor beach is outstanding and only 5 minutes away by car. (The hotel does have a bus as well). The only real let down is the food. There are 2 restaurants but they have the same food and slightly different opening times, with the adults only one opening and closing a bit later. We were in the family restaurant and really the food ranged from not nice to tasteless. Breakfasts are fine. Lunch is saved by the chicken kebab they have running, but the rest of the cooked food was a big let down. There's no real description of what the different items are - Meat Salad, Fish Salad, Vegetarian are some of the descriptions. I'd recommend the place but try to eat out in the evenings if you can!

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“Not the same this year but still a great hol”

Our second time visiting and again, impressed for the most part. Food decent, rooms spacious and clean (bonus that they’re cleaned every day) and the daytime entertainment staff are incredible! However, I did have a few gripes about this year’s visit… - we didn’t use ‘snack times’ last year but … more

Our second time visiting and again, impressed for the most part. Food decent, rooms spacious and clean (bonus that they’re cleaned every day) and the daytime entertainment staff are incredible! However, I did have a few gripes about this year’s visit… - we didn’t use ‘snack times’ last year but this year we did. The snack time after breakfast is abysmal. Plain bread (no facilities to toast), some cheese, ham and veg and couple of pastries. Very poor given the all inclusive status! - the indoor bar really infuriates me. Specifically only broadcasting the World Cup in this bar so people had to pay. Although there was one occasion they did show in the main pool area seating too. Barman stated this was because it was on national tv. Not a good enough excuse… 5K for an all inclusive holiday so you’d expect all the perks in my opinion. - my biggest complaint and by far the most important is a specific barman. He worked in both the ‘paid’ bar and in the all inclusive. Each and every time I witnessed this man, his behaviour and attitude was disgusting. He was rude to everyone! Someone said his name was Joao I think. Older than most of the other staff, wore glasses. I personally witnessed him hounding an elderly woman for not saying ‘please’…. Spoke to everyone like they were beneath him. Really not a good look and several strangers I spoke to felt the exact same about him. Time for some staff training for this man! Or for him to find a new job that doesn’t involve customer service. Other than above, we enjoyed our stay. Just disappointing that we dreamt of the holiday we had last year and this year just wasn’t the same!

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“Clean hotel”

Went with family, hotel very clean although I didn’t like how the corridors had no lighting and are very dark. Staff in dining rooms and cleaners work very hard and are pleasant. Food for me was ok, not much choices and felt it was same items all the time. Rooms were big although felt beds were ve… more

Went with family, hotel very clean although I didn’t like how the corridors had no lighting and are very dark. Staff in dining rooms and cleaners work very hard and are pleasant. Food for me was ok, not much choices and felt it was same items all the time. Rooms were big although felt beds were very hard and pillows were awful. Showers really good in the rooms. Kids entertainment was not very good at all if kids were much older than 3. Not much around hotel local shops about fifteen minutes walk. Nice hotel with pleasant staff. Would I go back, probably not.

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