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Oriental Hotel
Portugal, Europe
Praia da Rocha
Boasting a prime location on the beachfront at Praia da Rocha beach, this luxurious establishment offers breathtaking views over the sea and features an exotic and elegant architecture that will delight even the most discerning travellers. Guests will find themselves just 3 kilometres from the city of Portimão and less than a 45-minute walk from Faro International Airport. The spacious rooms and suites invite visitors to travel through time and space, including stunning views over the ocean and featuring a terrace or balcony. They all have been tastefully decorated and come with all the necessary services and amenities for guests to feel right at home. A great buffet breakfast is available to kick start one's day before enjoying a moment of relaxation in the deck chairs around the outdoor swimming pool.
Facilities
- Wheelchair-accessible
- Car park
- 24-hour reception
- Mobile phone coverage
- Wired Internet
- Wi-fi
- Car hire*
- Transfer service*
- Airport Shuttle
- Room service
- *Some facilities may incur an additional fee
The Local Area
Tripadvisor Reviews
4.0 Very Good1,034 reviews
Excellent
51%
Very Good
31%
Average
11%
Poor
4%
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3%
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Mixed bag. Nice hotel, bad time
Just had a lovely 12 days at AP Oriental. The location is fabulous BUT whilst we were there the beach was a building site preparing for a big music festival in July so the noise was constant 24/7. The male staff were very helpful and the girls could learn from them. Breakfast was really nice but the evening buffet was shocking. The food was cold and tasteless. This needs addressing as there were lots of negative comments. We sunbathed in the lovely garden area and stickers for scanning for waiter service for drinks were just being put up which will be helpful. Overall, a mixed review. We were unlucky with the timing because of the noise day and night from the construction work on the beach.
Highly recommended overall and very nearly perfect.
Fantastic location in very close proximity to the beach. Lovely, very spacious rooms, most with the option of panoramic sea views. Generally peaceful (in May anyway) albeit with some occasional boom-box noise from the pavement-level bar upstairs. Food very good and the selection at breakfast and dinner always had something to appeal, including a good selection of fresh seafood at dinner. We felt that all hotel staff were genuinely very friendly, and always helpful and polite. There were many individuals worthy of a special mention but to have done so would have detracted from the work undertaken by the backroom staff whose names we didn’t know. WiFi is free but sometimes unreliable. The mobile signal is pretty good though so we were able to stay connected just fine with our data plans. Our only major disappointment concerned the hotel’s rather silly rule regarding the gentlemen’s dress code for the evening meal in the restaurant. This rule stipulates, for example, no shorts or t-shirts and wouldn’t be silly if it was enforced - it never was. We subsequently learnt that basically the restaurant is open to all which includes anyone wandering in off the beach. Make of that what you will but, as Evening Dining in shorts and t-shirts doesn’t fit with our own personal taste in a 4 star hotel restaurant then we’d probably opt only for a B&B package if we ever stayed again and visit any of the many local eateries instead.
Review by Rondaph Preston, United Kingdom
Impressive hotel 🏨
Lovely hotel friendly staff, great facilities nice food, I was impressed as I'm a vegetarian and it catered well for that, which I've struggled in the past from other hotels that don't give a second thought, I would've given a 5 star but knocked it down to 4 star based on the fact I didn't sleep well because the duvet was way too thick as I'm a middle aged female I kept waking up feeling hot even with the air conditioning on. Location is in a quiet area 10 minutes walk to the rowdy bars which was too much in your face it seemed like they was competing with each other it would've been nice to have normal couple of bars to drink in
Perfection
How fabulous! The hotel is located facing the beach, the view is spectacular, the location is really quiet, with the vibe of the strip which is not a far walk Staff are fantastic, polite and friendly, nothing is too much trouble, , sunbeds are plenty. Very relaxing The cleanliness of the hotel and grounds are brilliant, A special shout out to cloudia and Carlos in the restaurant, they were excellent! The director is also lovely and walks about the hotel and is also friendly Perfect chill and the only complaint is I wasint there for longer, T & K Longworth Thankyou for the perfect stay
Nearly a perfect holiday
There was so much that was good about the hotel: the position, the size of the room and the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff and the stay should have been perfect. But it was let down by two things. Having been told that our room (520) was one of the most demanded by returning guests, we were horrified when for two nights there were three hours when the room shook as bass speakers directly above us in the hotel’s external bar pounded unendingly. The young guy on reception said it was licensed and that we were lucky it was only for three hours. But when we went to see the crowds enjoying the music at the bar on one night there was nobody and on the second two people. It seemed somewhat pointless. The other issue was the dining room which was open to outsiders and often meant you had to push between too many too closely placed tables to try to get to the food. Both issues did undermine what could have been a perfect stay.
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