Alvor, Pestana Delfim Hotel Review

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scrapston's Review of Alvor, Pestana Delfim Hotel Algarve

11th May 2005

Overall Rating

2 stars
  • Value for money
    1 stars
  • Board Basis
    Half board
  • Accommodation
    1 stars
  • Food
    1.5 stars
  • Location
    1.5 stars
  • Date of stay
    April 2005
  • Tour Operator
    First Choice
  • Customer Service
    4.5 stars
  • Resort
    1.5 stars
Good Points

The staff were excellent.


Bad Points

The whole hotel stank of raw sewage the whole time. The food was very poor with very limited choices.


General Comments

The Pestana Delfim Hotel in Alvor is pictured to be on the beach. It takes about 15 mins to walk down to there. The beach itself is lovely.
We stayed on the 16th floor ( the top ) and all the time the whole place stank of raw sewage. In the morning, it made me feel physically sick and I had to hold my breath whilst using the bathroom. This is where it was the strongest. The corridors all stank if it too.
The food was very poor. The lack of choice at breakfast meant that if you don't like tomatoes or baked beans, you had 4 choices of egg and nothing else. The baked beans and tomatoes are done in rotation, so you get either beans or tomatoes every day, not both. The evening meal was of a better standard but still very lacking in choice.
The rooms were cleaned daily, but the standard wasn't very good at all.
If you are looking for a 4 star hotel in Alvor, I wouldn't advise you to choose this one! The area is very quiet and lifeless (boring!), so unless you just want to lay on the beach all day and do nothing else, I would not recommend Alvor or even the Algarve at all.

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  • Evelyn Brown Rank: Lance Corporal on 22nd May 2006

    I stayed, with my aunt, at the Pestana Defim Hotel in September 2005 for 2 weeks. We didn't actually book for this hotel but found that what we did book for was absolutely diabolical and asked to be moved. It was the best thing that could have happened. It turned out to be the best holiday I had had for a long while. The hotel was beautiful, very clean and the food was excellent as were all the staff. The hotel was a good 20 minute walk from Alvor but if you didn't feel like a walk there was always the courtesy bus right outside the door. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at this hotel so much so we booked up today, 22 05 06, to go back again in September 2006. The hotel is up a hill and if you have walking difficulties this may cause a problem but again you could always use the bus service or the local taxis which were very reasonable. I would certainly recommend this hotel to anyone. Whether you want a quiet holiday or a lively one you can have both as you are so near Alvor and Priaia Da Rocha.