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4.    Hotel great location.     Old town to left.    New town to right.      Albufeira strip to right.    Walking distance 20minutes.     Hotel staff.    Very difficult.   Not much.   English speaking staff.    Not very helpful.     We had breakfast option.     Excellent choice.    Plenty for everyone.     Cereals. Fruit juices.     Fry up 

Hotel great location 

This is a hotel with fabulously helpful staff, a host of facilities and a great location.  The outdoor pool area is well maintained with (when we stayed) plenty of sun beds. 
There's a huge heated indoor pool with water slide, a gym, jacuzzi, steam room and spa treatments (our only niggle being that to use the indoor pool you had to purchase swimming caps and slippers at €4 each item per person).   Our room was spacious, well equipped & maintained daily (bonus is the tea tray!).  The restaurant has a wide selection of continental and hot breakfast options and dinners seem to be on a weekly loop with themed nights a regular feature - again plenty choice.  A special mention to the staff for marking both our birthdays with wine and cake - a lovely thoughtful touch.
Small niggles were the cost of certain drinks in the restaurant  (25ml bottle of water €2.50...), our room being somewhat noisy as it was next to the lift and the fact that our balcony got no sun at all as it was flush to the building rather than protruding - minor gripes from an otherwise great stay.

Lovely staff, great location and lots of facilities

Booked a Neck and Shoulders massage. A day later I booked the facial massage. Jessica did wonderfull! Very friendly and a super relaxing massage. Would definitely recommend to go here during your stay. Nice and clean rooms and possibility to have a shower.

Great massages

At the Spa it was great , Jessica gave mespa a wunderfull treatment  5 stars
Hotel as well was okay, we will surelly Come back again eventhough we ve been there 7 times. I would surely Come back to the Spa again because thetreatments are great and lovely people

Spa  massage

Very nice hotel in great location - 10 minutes to the left for the busy Old Town or 20 minutes to the right for truly manic Albufeira strip of the New Town (the new Magaluf?) - and with an amazingly large pool area (sunbeds are plentyful but some of the beds are sagging and in need of replacement). The hotel even has its own integral British style pub, however, getting served on an evening is often easier said the done (thought I was invisible one visit to the bar). €4.90 for a large local beer is a little expensive as well. 

The guest rooms (we had 347) are quite large with pretty much everything you could need including a large bathroom and decent sized balcony. However, the rooms, while clean, are in need of some tlc and are rather dated. A little refurbishment of the rooms here and there really would be welcome. 

Breakfast options are excellent with lots of quality choices. Evening meal options are likewise decent but main meal options are perhaps a little more limited. The hotel staff are in general excellent and hard working. 

One word of warning though, don't believe when the hotel website states 'Hotel Vila Galé Cerro Alagoa will not accommodate hen, stag or similar parties' because while my wife and I were there at least 6 such large parties were there. All of them were loud and dominating during the day around the pool area. One group, about 18/20 Geordies I think, were in particular very lewd, rude and generally obnoxious. Several of them being worse for wear from the alcoholic drink served to them by the pool bar staff without question despite their obvious condition. 

Would my wife and I stay again? There are several pluses and minuses to consider. We probably wouldn't even if we knew large groups of people were actually blocked or at least controlled better at the hotel. In general Albufeira Old Town and New Town are just too manic for normal sensible people like my wife and myself. 

NICE ENOUGH HOTEL, MANIC PLACE

This modern hotel is situated in the very centre of the popular holiday resort of Albufeira on the beautiful Algarve. Restaurants, bars and shops are in the vicinity, the famous Albufeira strip is just a few steps away. The beaches Praia dos Pescadores and Praia da Oura are within walking distance, various other beaches, Albufeira marina and several golf courses are within easy reach. Faro Airport is set at 40 km from the property. The guest rooms are beautifully designed, and are well equipped with modern amenities including cable TV, air conditioning, mini-bar, safe, hair dryer, kettle and bath amenities. The offers spa centre to provide well-being, relaxation and anti-stress treatments for all guests. It comes with sauna, gym, Jacuzzi, Turkish bath and treatment room.

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