Silchoro Apartments

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I have only recently returned this month and I felt obliged to write a few words.
Every other comment seems to sum the place up. Dated, noisy. These are all true, the place is definitly in need of reburbishment, but as one lady wrote, you are on holiday and spend very little time in your apts anyway. The staff weren't the best in the world, one tracked mind if you ask me. Just come to work and go home, they need to zest, some personality!
I also didn't appreciate having travelled all evening, not being to bed and been up since 07:00 am the previous day, to then be told our room wouldn't be ready for 2 and a half hours. Come on, what a joke that was. I was tired, hungry and in need of freshening up. This needs sorting, definitly one big negative of the holiday.
Also, disappointingly we had workmen in the next door but one apt. I appreciate work must be done, but the hours were what I would classify as unsocialable and it was deeply frustrating being woken up by drilling when the walls are paper thin as it is.
Safety - I feel that the Silchoro apts don't offer you much in the way of this. The locks and latches on doors/windows etc are very much in need of updating. I won't to be able to feel safe when we go to bed on an evening and I aren't ashemed to say I felt uneasy a couple of nights.
We didn't spend much time at the apts through the day, we spent much of our 'sun-catching' at the beach and what a great beach it is, well worth going to Oura Beach.
Albufeira is a great place if you ask me, I would undoubtedly go back again, not to Silchoro, I would find somewhere else, but yes definitly Albufeira. It is a very nice place place in deed.
Please note, yes, you do get stopped occassionally and asked if you want to buy hash, but these guys understand ''no thank you,'' they never give you any grief and simply move on to the next passer by.
One last comment, we went went with Thomas Cook, which I can strongly say was a mistake. They are a money grabbing, shameful and scamful company. We reported to Jenna the rep our disapproval of being next door to work men and she simply shrugged it off. Stay away from Thomas Cook - joke!

I dont have a clue why people are slagging of Silchoro apartments there were great they was just like any other apartment you would stay in abroad. There was nothing at all wrong with them i had the best holiday ever when i was there staff dead nice and locals was very nice. 3 of us went on holiday and we had a whale of a time. Stop moaning and enjoy your holiday!!!! Dont be put off by the reviews that obvoiusly fussy people have wrote enjoy it iv been back a week and im bookin on the weekend to go again for longer this time.
Sarah & Nisha x

Hi All,
Firstly I must say Albufeira is a wonderfull holiday resort, has an awful lot to offer, the weather is generally amazing and it is well worth a visit!.....however DO NOT stay at these appartments!!!
I can cope with the long treck to the beach, the irritating, repetitive R&B music by the pool, no change of towels or bed sheets and elevators with a mind of their own.......with it only being 7 days.....on holidays....you tend to overlook theses small mishaps and try to make the most of it etc etc! BUT why I urge others to reconsider their choice of accom. is due to the fact that we had horrendous showers ALL week.....there was v little/no warm water, it wasnt fixed and no other alternative was offered......therefore cold showers were had all week! Also the rooms were not cleaned and no new toilet paper was provided! NOT GOOD!!! Espically when we met others holidaying at the same time who got much better deals!
Im not being cranky....just brutally honest....DONT STAY HERE!!!

The Silchoro apartments where pretty bog standard, a bit dated and noisy. We booked a room with a double bed, when we arrived we found two single sofas which you had to put together every day, which was a little irritating. The bedding was only changed once during our 7 night stay, I don't believe that this is any standard to go by.
The staff at the hotel where very pleasant and couldn't fault them in anyway.
Albufeira itself is a long strip of 'tat and cheap junk stores' which lacks any Portuguese culture what so ever. It's packed full of English orientated ASBO football bars, there's cheap and cheerful and there's CHEAP and cheerful. If Blackpool or Rhyl where 15 degrees hotter you'd pretty much have Albufeira. The Old Town (the name suggesting tiny mazes of Portuguese old style village and shops) was everything but that. It was like a mass of even more 'tat' stores and the same restaurant around every corner.
The only reason I'm rating this holiday as 5 is due to the weather and beaches.

I don`t understand why people would whine so much about this hotel!
Of course it`s not the best hotel in the world,but it was fine,really...
Yeah,the beds made noises,the dogs barked,the staff were so and so,but come on,
who`s gonna spend most of the time at the hotel?!on a vacation you`re supposed to be at the beach,party and have fun and only come back to sleep....geezzz
I wouldn`t come back to this hotel,but I would definitely come back to Albufeira:)
I loved Praia da oura,Zoo marine,the day trip to Sevilla,Spain and the best place to party is at Cafe del mar!!!!!
Me and my best friend had the time of our lives down in Albufeira:)

Me and my boyfriend have just had a weeks stay at the Silchoro appartments and i can honestly say there is nothing wrong with these appartments, The pool was great, rooms and beds were great , staff really friendly especialy christina on reception, towels changed daily and beds made , food in restaurant really nice , weather was scorching 90s. The strip was really busy had some good nights there, I would honestly say dont be put off by some of the reviews that you read on here , check these appartments out yourself as there is nothing at all wrong with them .

After reading what other people have written about this hotel i felt i needed to do a review!
I stayed hear with 3 friends for a week in april. we booked it last minute and only payed £150 each (flights and hotel). we didnt expect much, as we had got it very cheap!
before going we read quite a few bad reviews so we were all a little worried! when we arrived in portugal it was raining, but as we go into albufeira it brightened up!
we arrived at the hotel and our romm was ready straight away! we got to our room and were pleasanty suprised! it was very spacious, a room with 2 beds and a room with 2 sofas (which were actually comfier than the beds) the bathroom was huge and extremely clean!
we had a room with a pool view, which was nice, and it was very quiet at night, couldnt hear the road! we had maid service every day bar 1, and clean towels 6 days out 7! we had our bed sheets changed twice in 1 week! it was very very clean!
its about a 10/15min walk to the main bars and shops, not too bad! taxis r no more than 5euros and u can go anywhere! theres a free bus to the old town and the beach!
the only bad thing i could say is the food wasnt amazing. it took long time for it to come and it wasnt very hot. ok for pool side snacks though!!!
i had never stayed in a hotel with less than 5 stars before, but in coming with my friends we couldnt afford anything to posh! but i would honestly recomend this place!
maybe we jus got lucky!! oh but watch out for the lifts they have no interior walls!!!

We arrive on 11th May 08 to a place we thought we would enjoy as our 1st holiday as a couple together. We arrived at 9.30am to a dull day in Portugal!!!
When we arrived at Silchoro at 10.30am, were informed to leave our bags and go get a drink because our rooms were not ready! They would not be ready until 2pm. We all had to stay in our clothes we have travelled in until then! We all went into the hotel cafe/bar to get a drink, where the staff we so friendly but no complmantry drink was offered. We Then decided to get something to eact which was ok and weather had starting to brighten up so we were getting all warm and sweaty, while we waited to get into our room.
Eventually we got into our room (Studio) which then had 2 couches which we had to put together to make a bed i wasnt impressed with so i went to speak to my hol rep and she wasnt there so the receptionist then asked what was wrong so i explained in brouche it was shown as 2 beds not 2 couches she then showed us another room with 2 beds so we decided to take that and push to beds together. After the first week i picked up i bug and was very, very ill for the full week. We then had to call a doctor, i dont know if this bug had come from the room as they wasnt 100% clean.
The second night we decided we would have something to eat in our room we come to use the cooker and it would heat up, Self catering you expect cooker to be working, yet again we had to complain and ended up going out for tea into the hotel restraunt the choices werent excellent but we eventally found something we liked.We then went to the bird bar for s drink were the member of staff was not very help or very happy. On ou second week of our holiday our toilewt leeked and we then had to report that and we had to leave our room for a few hours while the toilet was replaced.
One week into the holiday we thought that our beds would have been changed ready for our second week, how wrong were we! Our beds were not changed once whilst we were there! Now in all fairness the room was cleaned every day but only at 5.30pm when we were cuming back to our room to either have a nap or to get changed for nite time, this made me think thye may have forgot us.
As for entertainment in this hotel, on a Monday night was live music which was really rubbish. Tuesday was a no entertainment at all which was very boring. Wednesday again there was no entertainment which yet again was very boring. Thursday they had quiz & bingo nite which was ok, Friday yet again no entertainment how rubbish, Saturday night no entertainment, and Sunday they had family games nite! Every evening they had happy hour which dodnt get many people in they need to put mote entertainment on in this hotel. There was also a night club in these apartments, but again it was never open for us to see! There was absolutely nothing to do for kids apart from run around the little gift shop in the main hall, how boring can that be for a child.
As many people do when they are on holiday they like to have fun in theses hotel's this was hard to do. All we wanted to do at an evening was get some gud food in our hotel and relax with some entertainment in our hotel bar but guess what they didnt have entertainment, NOT THIS HOTEL!!!
On the other hand, we visited some lovely places old town, which is lovely to walk round, also Lagos and Sarges Trip we did was good and also the jeep Safari definitely worth trying.
On the strip there were also some fantastic places to eat and get a drink from, but we was put of when walking down the strip and we were asked if we wanted to buy any (ash, canabis, coke, etc) this is not the sort of thing you go on holiday for, this out me and my partner of venturing down to the strip of an evening.
Albufeira is a nice place but i will never recommend going there to anyone unless they stay closer to the strip or the old town i will not be returning in a hurry.

this is the 7th time i have stayed in these apartments and they are still as good as before.
the staff as still friendly and welcome you with a smile. rooms are always cleaned except a tuesday. the 2 bedroom apartment for 6 is the best as it has 2 main bedrooms and living room with 2 sofa beds.
the pool area is very clean and food is ok for light snacks and lunches but not dinner time.
i would def recommend it to people.
10/10

JUST COME BACK
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone!!! The accomodation is totally out of date, the beds are NO BEDS at all they are 2 sofas joined onto one & hard to get out of once put together to use as a double, only the 2 bedroomed ones are of use from a tour of our neighbours accommodation.
The beach is far out & the accommodation is miles out of anywhere in a concrete jungle. The cleansliness of place was bad, the floors were still full of sand & tables weren't cleaned. The towels were still dirty at times.
The stip is horrid. Get stopped by people asking to buy time shares or Ash (weed/cannibis etc).
This place was more like chavs city, no offence to them, but it was!!!
Thomas cook didn't do a good job putting us ere. There was delays to both inward & outward journey. To put a damper on the start of the holiday the coach transfer hear, the coach door where our luggage was stored opened up on a roundabout & a few cases were trailing on the floor, luckily the police stopped him.
Only good thing was the free bus to the old town & Oura Beach. We made a few of these trilps just to get out of the resort. We managed however to walk the journey home by beach to beach to get back to our accommodation. About hours walk from Old Town to Oura Beach. Spectacular views.
Wont be coming here again. On our first day once coming off the coach a young boy said to us "go back on coach, back home".... We know why as there was nothing to do. The resort should be 0 star not a 3 star.