Hotel Alba — Hotel in Vila Real de Santo António

If your looking for somewhere near the beach,restaurants and supermarket this is your place. Spent 3 night here last weekend and it was lovely. The hotel is immaculate, basic but immaculate. Hotel staff weren't the happiest but did their job. The cleaners were very happy and nothing was a problem. The breakfast wasn't the best but has everything you could want. No omelette station or sausages or bacon. Just what looked like a fried egg and hot dog sausages. The pool area was immaculate as everywhere else. The main thing that really bugged me which didn't affect my stay but have to mention was the TV! It was put up so crooked that if we had wanted to watch it, would have been pretty annoying. Luckily we didn't as everything outside was beautiful, why would anyone want to stay in and watch TV. I do recommend williem (I think that's how you spell it). It was opposite the beach local restaurant qood food and drinks. My favourite place to eat was the pr1me beach restaurant on the beach. It was classy, good food and service was perfect. I've read reviews that it's expensive, no way is it we were so shocked when the bill came. We had a bottle of wine 2 mains, 2 deserts and it was less than £50 each. You pay that in London just for the wine!!! We will be returning next year, but for longer as we loved...

When we first arrived, we weren’t sure as to what we had booked, the bar was some bottles at the end of reception and the welcome was lukewarm. However once in our room it was spacious and very clean. Other guests had told us not to be too enthusiastic about the breakfast but to us it was a normal standard across the board from other hotels we have been to in Europe. When engaging with the staff on reception we found them perfectly pleasant and accommodating, the pool although on the small side is perfectly adequate to cool off and the beach is literally at the end of the road. The area is not a place to stay if you are looking for more than just a beach holiday, there are plenty of bars and restaurants but not a lot else. To us the hotel was perfectly located and perfectly adequate for...

Everything about our stay, from our arrival at reception to leaving, was a good experience. Everyone we spoke with, from the receptionists to the cleaners, were very polite and helpful. The hotel reception, corridors, pool area and our room was spotlessly clean. Our room was cleaned every day. The beds were very comfortable. We did have an issue with our safe deposit box but this was resolved straight away. There are no English tv channels in the rooms. But we don’t come on holiday to watch television. ||The pool is in sun almost all day. The hotel is only a five minute walk from the seafront and a good choice of bars and restaurants. There is only one thing I’d change; the sausages with the breakfast. I’d have proper ones rather than hotdogs. But that wouldn’t stop...