PESTANA VILA SOL GOLF & RESORT HOTEL

This was a perfect venue to host the charity golf event which I attended. The charity hired the whole hotel and the staff, food and facilities were excellent and more than catered for the needs of all the attendees. Unfortunately the buildings and furnishings are looking rather tired and dated and not what you would expect of a five star hotel, but the cleanliness was excellent. Breakfast was a delight, all the food was delicious and nothing was too much trouble for the waiters. But, having extended our stay beyond the three night corporate event, I would not recommend this hotel for young families (the language around the pool became somewhat colourful once the groups of golfers began to arrive) and I feel it may not be quite appropriate for young adults, particularly girls, holidaying alone.

Nice hotel, good breakfast, nice apartments, however the apartments are vilas so when you arrive, you check in at reception, then you park your car and wait for a golf cart to take you to your vila. Ours was on the 15 block, there are 19!!! To go to breakfast, swimming pool, etc., you walk almost 1 kilometer!!!

Attended a charity golf event, as a non golfer. Stayed by the pool which is lovely. Reasonable spa, great magic feet pedicure. Would recommend it but the serenity massage was average. Good food. Rooms reasonable quality and spacious.

We arrived at around lunchtime and luckily we didn't have to queue and our room was actually ready earlier than expected. We had someone take us to our room on one of the golf buggys as we were staying in room 1907 which was one of the bunglaows near the indoor pool, it was a lovely spacious, very clean room, with a large bathroom with two sinks and a bath with shower. I agree there are a lot of Golfers there in large groups (and some more rowdy than others) but you cant blame the hotel for that. the pool area is lovely and clean and there were ALWAYS beds available at ANY time of the day, which in my experience is a first!!!!!. Yes I agree that the bar drinks were a little over priced 4.50 euros for a coke yet only 3 euros for a glass of wine'! the food was good at the bar, reasonably priced for Vilamoura or in general for a hotel. All the staff were friendly and helpful especially at the check in desk, the bar staff by the pool bar were really good apart from one girl there she seemed to have a go at the other men working there who were running around trying to serve people, whilst she seemed to be taking her time in everything she did'! All in all I really enjoyed my stay and was worried about going after some reviews on here, but I had a great time!

More like 3 stars at best....full of lager louts and inflated prices too for what was essentially fast food delivered at a slow pace. Absolutely no communication with reception staff and management which made us feel as though we, the guests were being insincere. Unsuitable for families...I'll have to leave that there as I've run out of space...