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31 Mayıs 2024
We had a lovely stay at the Pestana Blue Alvor Beach - yes there are certainly areas of improvement - but overall we had a lovely time. -location of the hotel is brilliant, a five minute walk to the beach, yes it is a little steep but this is mentioned in hotel description. -the board walk to Alvor (25 minute walk) is next to the beach and it is a lovely walk, Alvor itself is nice, a lot of the usual tourist shops,, some lovely pastelerias (pastel de nata must be tried). On sunday morning there is a market at the the sea front, lovely fruit and cakes/biscuits and some handcrafted souvenirs. -rooms very quiet, storage space can be a little cramped (depending on which room you are in), we were upgraded to a very large room and both rooms were very clean, bathrooms good and house keeping staff very friendly and efficient, (We had some laughs with the english-portuegese dictionary and lots of "sign" language.) -food/restaurant, breakfast was really good, good choice of food, yogurt, seeds, walnuts, bread, cheese, meats, cereals, lots of lovely fruit (kiwis were fantastic), cakes, pastries, porridge, pancakes and one of us had a cooked breakfast so all bases covered. Lunch and Dinner, there was variety - maybe not always your favourites but every country has its own specialities, meat or fish and one day risotto was freshly cooked. Dessert consisted of a wide variety of cakes, lots of fresh fruit and several flavours of icecream. Wine was of a very good quality, coffee machines, especially the coffee only one, produced a very good cup of coffee. In the bar area there was a snack table with a variety of foods, enough to keep you happy if you felt peckish. -pool area, swimming pools were kept clean, plenty of sun loungers (in the second half of our stay the "reserve a lounger at 8 and start using it at 2") had arrived. Why this was done ??? there are lots of sun loungers. Music around the pool was sometimes a bit loud for us but then maybe we are getting old. infinity pool around the corner was very quiet. Cannot really comment on entertainment as we were not really there for it. -bars: drinks available very good, and branded drinks (Gordons, Baileys, etc); wine and beer (including stout) were enjoyable. -Luigi's, starters very nice, pizza a bit "shop bought" and desserts nice, atmosphere lovely with in the middle of it all a lady who started to sing with staff joining in. -Staff, the greatest strength of this hotel, everybody from the moment we arrived (glass of prosecco while checking in a lovely gesture) from reception, bar, restaurant, room - everyone was so friendly and helpful - they really contributed to our holiday being great. Now the areas where we feel there is scope for improvement, sort of 10% effort to make this hotel perfect: -food to be correctly labelled - in the restaurant we often found inaccurate labelling/ ingredients missing, i.e. pork with banana without a banana in sight, risotto with parmesan without parmesan........w
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