Tropical Sol

went for 11 nights over christmas and New Year. Apartments were extremely large and well placed. Would of been nice to have had small welcome pack of washing up liquid, cloth scourer etc. rather than having to buy a full bottle of washing up liquid. Drinks in the bar were extremely reasonable pint of Guiness and somersby dark fruits was only 7 euros. Downside we could hear what sounded like the lift possible staff lift every time it was used we were in room 304 also the air con seemed to be on cold all the time and we could not change it. But to be fair we did not report it.

Five stars for the value. We came off peak and it's lovely. The rooms are HUGE. Quite surprising. The lady with the curly hair on the reception went out of our way to make it a cheerful stay. She was absolutely lovely. All of the staff were exceptionally nice actually. One of the cleaners was the most amazing source of information and made our stay so much better with her recommendations. The only negatives really are that the beds are quite hard, the pillows were wobbly and quite worn out and generally the place needs lots of little maintenance issues resolved and a slight update... But all in all, an absolutely wonderful stay. The bar and breakfast is nice. The pool is amazing although you won't want to go in off peak, it's freezing! It could be a real attraction if they could heat it! There is plenty of space around the pool for deck chairs. The balconies are just enough space to enjoy the outdoors whilst staying in. The TV set in the living room is large enough and there is another in the bedroom. The design of the room is very pleasant. We will definitely be returning here again. Thank you to the staff for a wonderful stay!

Fantastic hotel, lovely staff well equipped and great sized rooms with balcony with a table and 2 chairs, so have terrace with sunbeds also. Great choice of places to eat, mini markets on doorstep onside snack bar and club. Great choice for breakfast, not sure about other times as we were b&b Huge sun terrace with plenty of beds and parasols, big pool with separate area for kids. Staff are so friendly everywhere and greet you with an hello and a smile just passing through. I'm loving being here. We came as a move from ukino terrace as that place had as many cockroach"s as it did staff. I recommend tropical sol in a heartbeat and will definitely be coming again. Hotel service as it should be. Well done tropical 👏

Great stay, lovely big room - a couple of small issues (lots of ants in room, cupboard door broken) but these were sorted quickly. We also found crisps on bedroom floor on check in! Great air conditioning and amazing shower. 2 adults and 2 girls (20 and 15) sharing the room - the beds in the bedroom were comfortable but the sofa beds weren’t great - 1 was really hard, the other soft with a thin mattress. Pool area was lovely, always got a sun bed but the ones with umbrella’s were taken early. Hotel itself wasn’t rowdy/noisy, no big groups but our room was near the road and we were woken a few times at around 4.30 am by people returning to other hotels/apartments. Ate mainly at the old town but had a lovely meal at the Clay Oven and bought a few things at the lovely bakery around the corner.

We have recently returned from a family holiday - our experience of the hotel was ok - but will not be returning Positives Snack bar is lovely good selection of drinks The hotel is clean - however there are a selection of rooms by the poolside which are like beach huts - very small Staff are ok - some are friendly some don’t speak or smile The pool area is spacious and the pool area is lovely Location of the hotel is more towards the strip than the old town - you can walk into the old town (20mins) The hotel needs modernising - especially the rooms Negatives When I arrived with two young children - the room they offered me was right next to the bar - when we arrived there were 3 parties going on - which was extremely loud - I asked to be moved We arrived at the hotel at 11.30pm and the person on reception I found to be rude as he took a phone call whilst we were checking in - bearing in mind I had 2 children aged 8 and 5 Some of the rooms you can hear the main road - which is extremely noisy especially at the weekend Some rooms lead straight on the street Breakfast is ok - not worth the extra - very limited selection in choices - some morning they had run out of items Also whilst we were there a drunken teenager was on our sun beds that we reserved - we also walked up to Aldi one morning and there was a drunken teenager on the floor outside. Albufeira in my opinion now is catering more towards the younger generation and is becoming a second Ibiza - which is a shame as I came about 10 years ago and it was much more family oriented. There are some lovely restaurants around the old town and The Clay Oven - is amazing however unfortunately i will not be returning to Tropical Sol or Portugal.

We enjoyed our stay at this hotel as a group of 4. As a group of 4, we had to pay a €500 cash security deposit when checking in (we travelled with EasyJet Holidays and this wasn’t communicated to us before arrival, so this was a slightly uneasy start to the holiday). We were given a set of rules that we had to follow in order to get the deposit back on the final day too. We understood the need to take precautions like this and as we are not a rowdy group we knew we would get the money back anyway, but it’s not ideal being left with hundreds of euros in cash when travelling home for exchanging the currency back etc. The hotel is lovely and the location is great and is close to plenty of bars, cafes and restaurants. It’s also a short taxi journey or around 30 minutes walk to the Old Town. We shared a self-catering apartment for 4 people which was spacious, clean, well equipped and had a balcony with a lovely pool view. The pool is a great size (very cold but good for cooling down) and the area around the pool is very spacious- although we felt that there could have been more sunbeds as the space was big enough for more and we had to lie on our towels on the ground at some points. The snack bar is great and reasonably priced and the staff at the snack bar were really helpful and provided great customer service. Overall, we had a great stay here and would return.