Beautifully situated above the fisherman's city of Albufeira, surrounded by their own ... more
pleasant gardens, all the apartments have balcony or terrace, most of them with sea view, comfortably furnished and fully equipped. Albufeira Jardim has three swimmin...
Information:
Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: size. it has three pools, two tennis courts, bar, reasurant, shop... Disadvantages: location its a 20 min walk away from the lively town
Alfagar apartments Albufeira.
We were on the coach from the Airport at Faro for about 1hr before being dropped off at the Alfagar Apartments. When we arrived at about tea time we went to the reception and were greeted by the receptionist who took our passports over night (we were later told by a English man living in Albufeira that due to passport cloning we should have refused to do this.) and he arranged for a member of staff to take us to our room in his people carrier. The room was only a minuet away but there were two ways to go, one was up stairs but with our cases that wasn't practical and the other was around the pool but it was the busiest time of the day when we arrived so the staff took us in there car the long way round which I thought was very nice of them.
The rooms
The room was a 1 bed self catering room ...
Advantages: Nice pool, pleasanr helpful staff, appartment very clean Disadvantages: Bathroom stunk of drains, kitchen antiquated, no kettle, toaster or hairdryer
WHERE IS THIS RESORT:
The Jardim 1 is an older resort in Albufiera near the old part of town in the Algarve in Portugal.
A BIT OF HISTORY BEHIND OUR HOLIDAY:
We booked this break through a ?bargain? special arrangement through a company called Resort point Services and had had a few problems with the so this was a sort of ? Let?s do this or lose our money? sort of decision. We had no choice of accommodation and we going to go where they put us.
Two days before our departure they phoned to say our accommodation was being changed from the Bahia Plaza to the Jardim 1 in Albufiera. I looked up Jardim 1 and there were mixed comments but that is often the case so I packed extra shampoo, conditioner, soap etc and I gathered there would not be freebies. We also put in our beach towels and we suspected that there would not be pool towels. (I did ...
Advantages: Fairly quiet area, good location, family friendly, rooms in good condition Disadvantages: Quality of kitchen facilities could have been better
I visited the Algarve last summer with a few friends and stayed at Vila Alba apartments during our two-week stay. I really enjoyed my stay here and would not hesitate to return - the apartment became a large aspect of the holiday!
The location of the apartments is not in Albufeira itself, but just outside. Although the apartments are simply a 5-10 minute walk from The Strip (where there are many cafes, bars and little shops), it is a fairly quiet area, with little to no disturbance. The apartments are quite detached from one another, so this further lessens the noise levels. The apartments are around a 20 minute walk to the beach.
The rooms themselves are of very good quality. The lounge area includea a TV with several channels; some in Portugese and some English. Even the CBeebies channel was available, which is great if you ...
