- Algarve Holidays
- Alvor
- Alvor Baia Resort Hotel
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.
The hotel is large, spacious and clean, with plenty of friendly staff. The outdoor facilities for toddlers and small children are good, with an outdoor park and a small play area within the children’s pool. The main pool is very large, although I can imagine it gets very busy during peak times.
The sunbeds are not great. Many are broken and they are not the quality you would expect from a 4-star hotel. However, there are plenty available, so you don’t need to get up early to reserve one. The pool area is clean, probably helped by the fact that there is no snack bar where people can eat.
We were really looking forward to our toddler being able to enjoy the mini disco, as she has at other hotels. Unfortunately, this was hugely disappointing. It isn’t held every night and, although it was advertised for our last night, one member of staff initially told us it wasn’t happening. We raised this with the manager just before she left the hotel, and she said she would sort it as it was supposed to be happening. The mini disco then lasted just 14 minutes, with the previous one lasting only 11 minutes, and both started at 8.30pm.
There is also a serious health and safety concern on the stage, where a fuse box is openly accessible. Young toddlers were able to remove the cover and press the buttons on the side. We raised this with reception, but unfortunately our concerns were dismissed, which was particularly disappointing given that this is an area specifically used by young children.
There is a bar within the hotel where you have to pay for drinks, and this was also the only place you could watch the football. We expected the spa to have an additional charge, but were surprised that use of the gym also came at an extra cost.
The only snacks available throughout the day were some late-morning leftover breakfast items and, from 4pm, a burger and a few other options, but no fries, along with ice cream. This is the only time snacks are available, which is disappointing for an all-inclusive hotel, particularly when travelling with young children.
The bedroom area is spacious and the rooms are cleaned well. However, the towels barely fit around a small lady, and the bed sheets don’t always fully cover you, depending on which size is put on the bed each day. After cleaning, the floors are left extremely wet and can be very slippery until they dry.
The fridge in the room is good, and you receive a bottle of water on arrival, which is a nice touch.
We also had an issue with our door not locking. It took the manager to resolve this, as our concerns were continually dismissed by reception. The receptionist we dealt with had a poor attitude, although we didn’t experience this with any of the other staff, so perhaps it was simply a bad day for him.
The food was better for us on some days than others, with some really good-quality chicken and beef available most nights, although the breakfast pastry choices were quite limited. The BBQ night was good, and there is a separate children’s section to choose from. There is also a separate dining room for guests travelling without children, if you prefer to dine in an adults-only area. Disappointingly, there are no plates, cups or cutlery specifically suitable for toddlers.
The regular free bus service to the beach is a good addition.
Overall, it’s a nice enough hotel, but it feels like it is missing quite a few opportunities to be on a par with other 4-star all-inclusive hotels. For us, some of the facilities and services were disappointing, particularly when travelling with a toddler.
This was our fourth visit to this hotel and every time it gets better.The hotel is amazing and the staff go out ot there way to ensure your stay is relaxing. Anabela and Tomas on reception make you feel very welcome and are always there to help you.Herlander, the Food and Beverage Director and staff offer an excellent selection of food and first class service.The bedrooms, bars,commuunal area's and pool are excellent and extremely well maintained . Mr Coelho,The HoteL Director makes a point of walking around the hotel making sure that every thing is perfect. Well done to all concerned. Jean and I have already booked our next holiday here and are looking forward to our next visit in September 2027.
What a holiday! We went as a family of 13. The hotel on first impression was beautiful, spotless. The staff were so welcoming and amazing throughout our 10 day stay. We had three children with us under 13 and they had an amazing time as did the teenagers and adults. The pool is the selling point. It’s huge and never had any issues with getting beds or seats during the day and night. Massive shoutout to Miguel and the entertainment team they got everyone involved throughout the day and night and created such a great atmosphere! The bar staff were friendly and great chat, shoutout to Antonio on the bar and also the housemaids who cleaned our apartment every day with fresh towels and lining. Only 10 minutes walk into beautiful town of Alvor such a hidden gem. First time we had been to Portugal as a family and it didn’t disappoint. Our only negative feed back we had was the evening meals especially for the kids. It wasn’t great except the bbq nights and 1 or 2 other night but the breakfast, lunch and snacks were superb. I wouldn’t say the main meal was a massive issue because we all still ate something but could have been a better variety for the smaller ones. I would definitely be back again as it was an amazing holiday from start to finish. For the price we paid I’d probably go as far as saying I’d easily had paid more for the stay as it was the best holiday we’ve been on as a family to date. Everyone was so friendly, the hotel and guests there it was just a great atmosphere it really was amazing.
Great hotel with lovely helpful friendly multi lingual staff.
Located a short walk from town with lots of choice of restaurants, bars and shops which are open late.
The area is nice, clean, and quiet too!
The hotel is really nice. The reception team are ace, always up for a laugh Leonardo and Paulo in particular were great!
The layout is good and the pool area is large with plenty of sunbeds and NONE of the stupid towels to bag a spot nonsense etc.
The hotel and pools are kept spotless.
The food has been varied and lots of choice. There are two main restaurants and they are spotless with great service.
The staff are superb, polite, efficient, what more do ya want?
Our room on the first floor was spotless spacious, quiet, cool with a balcony . The bed is enormous and comfortable slept really well.
The rooms were cleaned every day and were spotless when we came back. The hotel gives you two cards to get in to your room.
There is a beautiful spa, a masseuse service which was superb and highly professional.
Free usable WiFi !! Entertainment every night which to be fair was good! There animation team had things going at intervals all day, none of which was in any way intrusive or pushy! The aerobics in the pool was popular!
We had to leave at 330pm on our last day, and check out was 12. They’ve got a lovely solution for that too: lunch voucher provided free. Bags with permanently manned staff could be put safely packed away, with easy access and then free use of spa showers to prepare for the way home!
First rate and well done!! Will definitely come back!
I think is is one of the most accurately rated hotels I've ever been to. I also think some of the negative reviews are rather very very harsh. Spent a week in the 2nd and 3rd weeks of September as a couple and the hotel has been great over all. The staff are ALL wonderful and a delight to deal with. Literally everyone. The animation team as well, yes they don't come and insist and grab you like other hotels teams might do but.. how old are you??? If you want to join in, just join in when they announce. The team are so helpful and nice and friendly, I rather liked that they're not too pushy.
It's worth noting that this is one of the most constantly clean hotels I've ever been to in my life, I mean everywhere is clean, all the time.
The rooms are exceptionally spacious with a seating area that has a sofa, its own TV (separate from the bedroom's TV), a mini fridge freezer, electric hob, utensils, and a microwave and ample storage space!
The bed was very spacious and very comfortable. So were the pillows.
The bathroom is also very spacious and fine. The swimming pool has to be amongst the biggest you've ever been to for sure.
The food always had lots and lots of options, I've eaten my weight in different types of fish and sea food, however, despite the variety, the taste was ok at best and never hot, weirdly enough, always warm! But yeah you won't leave raving about the food.
The beach is very lovely with bus going and coming from it frequently. If you want sunbeds and an umbrella at the beach though it's €12 for half day or €17 for full day.
Because we went mid September, after the children have gone back to school almost everywhere, there were few numbers of kids generally so there wasn't a lot of noise generally. The entertainment at night is not something we attended but the sound came into our room sometimes unfortunately.
All on all, worthy of a 4 star rating and much better than other 4 star all inclusive I've been to before when you compare to the rest of Europe. If you compare to Turkey though, that's a different story because Turkey will always win £ for £.
