Advantages: Excellent for safe family holidays,luxury spacious apartments,superb pools,on-site English restaurant,friendly multilingual reception office,close to Old town Albufeira. Disadvantages: Some apartments are not south facing.
...Club Albufeira is ideal for a family holiday being safe and fun for children.Portuguese law prohibits dogs on the Club and the pools in Summer time have lifeguard supervision.
We were lucky enough to have had a south facing apartment enabling us to stay with the sun on our balcony, whilst others were in the shadows of the evening.
Our apartment was really something special -spacious,clean and luxurious.Just about everything we needed was there-towels,duvets,all the pots and pans etc we could ever need.The owner told us that this would be the case -just bring your toothbrush,beach towels and slippers he said.
Renting a car was not essential as the Club Albufeira provided a free shuttle bus four times daily to the Old Town Albufeira with its beautiful beaches. We did rent one however for a few days of our holiday to visit some...
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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 apartmentsAlbufeira.
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...
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...varying slightly with each option. there was also the option of paying for a mini bus or car to collect us from the airport and take us to the apartments and back to the airport at the end of the holiday. We decided to take a taxi, but if we went again we'd take the less expensive option of a pre-booked car, for around £13.00 each each way. The taxi cost double!
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We arrived at our apartment complex safely and in good spirits in the afternoon of 15th September. The weather was brilliant sunshine and the apartments were on the top of a hill above the old town of Albufeira. The complex had a communal entrance with a desk manned 24 hours by friendly, young English speaking personnel. We were given our room key and shown to the apartment which was on the ground floor, only a few yards away from the entrance hall. The whole place consisted...
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