Alfagar Alto da Colina

We love it here! We visited nine years ago when our children were just three and four and were nervous that it may have changed. However we are delighted to have come back and found it is just as good as before! The rooms are really clean and well equipped, decent shower and comfy beds. The pools are really clean and never too busy and the gardens are lovely. It’s great to have some varied entertainment during the day and evenings too with really friendly staff. The poolside atmosphere is really nice with games, exercise classes and aqua polo / aqua basket which are great for the kids and family members to enjoy. The evening quizzes and entertainment are also really fun for all generations. I would recommend The Palm restaurant too as the food is really good quality. Lots of variety and replaced often with fresh servings. We came all inclusive last time and wish we had done again as we ate here most nights. You can get an uber to old town Albufeira for about £6 for other restaurants but we’ve enjoyed staying at the hotel. It’s great to have the option to use pools and other entertainment facilities at Alfagar Apartments. You can take a lovely walk through here to reach a beach - Praia Santa Eulalia - be warned there are lots of steps!!! However you can reach Praia Santa Luisa much easier (includes a little hill) which has water sports just like the other beach. The aqua park here is also great for kids up to age 11 or so. I would recommend this place to everyone!

Overall, not bad but not good.

The rooms are badly in need of renovation but they are clean but very basic. The wi-fi is terrible and lasts only a few minutes before cut-out over and over again.

The pool is a good size and fine for kids big and small. The beaches is 20mins walk away.

Firstly, do not go Full board nor Half board.The dinner buffet was awful. It's made for kids- chips, pizza, spaghetti etc - but adult food is sadly lacking. The quality is poor and bland. Steaks are all fat no meat, pasta overcooked and lasagne was like rubber, fish looked unappealing. Horrible so don't bother. We waited 45mins for a drinks order that never showed. €22a head was a complete waste of money.

However, in contrast, the breakfast buffet is really good. Lots of choice, freshly cooked. Fruit juice is cheap rubbish but plenty of other options.

The worst thing of all are the entertainers. They are beyond awful and very annoying. 10am, 12pm, 3pm the guy comes out, plugs in his speaker and starts yelling utter gibberish non-stop for an hour in broken English. It's the same 10 songs every time on a loop blasted out. There is NO peace by the pool at all.

At night the entertainers are just as annoying. My son and I were playing pool when the female non-Portuguese entertainer interrupted us three times and ask us to play music bingo. She took my son's cue off him saying "I'm good at pool!". I told her to do one as 'No' clearly didn't work three times over. When I say do one you know what I really said.

There are 2 pool tables and an air hockey but it needs more arcade games as kids are running around at night bored causing mayhem. As the World Cup was in there was only 1 TV in the bar.

Overall, I won't stay there again.