Hotel Viva Bahia

Went with my wife and young daughter of 6, we had a great time. Great location on a beautiful beach, great weather, lots to do. The apartments were great, just a few problems with getting hot water, but great apartments nevertheless. Would go again.

We stayed here for only 3 nights the end of October and within minutes we were being eaten alive by mosquitos. I had over 30 bites within 24 hours even after using repellent and wearing long trousers. With day time temperatures of 29 C ( excellent ) but the AIR CONDITIONING WAS TURNED OFF ! so you had to risk opening windows at night for cool air and more bites or have a hot sticky room. I spoke to reception and was told this was hotel policy no mater what the temperature. The rooms were fine clean and roomy staff friendly breakfast was good huge choice of food but TV had only 1 english speaking channel BBC News 24. The perfect beach was only a short walk away. Would I come again NO !

Just returned from a week long stay at the Viva bahia, I booked after checking tripadvisor reviews and as with the previous comments you wont be dissapointed with this as a family destination. The apartments are lovely and have very well and beautifully laid out pool area with direct access to the beach. There is a bouncy castle free of charge just at beach entrance and small crazy golf area, although we didnt use this the putters and ball are available from reception. Table tennis, pool and internet area also in reception area. The pool is quite large with deep end 1.6 at end facing beach cafe, the center and top are 1.4 with a very small section closed off for shallow end for the little ones. There is also a separate paddling pool, tiny, for the tots and it would be advisable if you want a bed near this to go down 8.50 no later then 9 as these beds were always gone before 9. It seemed to be the area to be in with the tiny tots as had lots of shade also. The left hand side of the pool area (walking from reception) got the sun from early morning, the right hand side always had beds available as it was in the shade until 11.30 - 12.00 although I do agree with rest of reviewers we never had a problem getting a bed it was very refined walk to place your towel and towels left before 9.15 were removed if you didnt stay put! The food at the beach bar was nice enough the usual and had a take away service also, we loved the four oclock strawberries and cream hour where the entertainment staff served these with freshly squeezed orange juice and waffles and really resonable prices, €2.40 for large sundae of strawberries and cream.... The apartment was large and there were three adults and one child in our group and this was very adequate, large changing and sink area off the shower bathroom which was handy, the cooking facilites were minimum so if you cook all your meals in (we never cooked once) its only adequate for snacks. The welcome pack was handy as we had late arrival and contained fruit, wine, 4 large bottles water, coke, beer, butter, salt, eggs, bread rolls, yougurt and orange juice, 4 of each. I booked directly through hotel website [--] and flights through aerlingus[--], we had brilliant taxi service which picked us up in mercedes from airport and return was just as promt, all in all the holiday booked independantly this way was very resonable and worked out at €415 per person. The hotel was mainly german or swedish with small amount of english familys, very nice clientele and family atmosphere, we had a look at the alcudia pins and apartmentone next to this and it was awful in comparison so we were really happy with our choice. Entertainment geared only for kiddies but they seemed to love this and stops at 11.00 - 11.30 we headed into can picfort and the promenade at beach had best souvenier shopping and eating. Taxi cost either to alcudia center or other direction to can picfort was between 5.70 - 6.50 depending on time of day. There is a bus service directly across main road to either and this was 90 cent - 1.50 to alcudia center. Happy Holidays!

i went to the appartments viva bahia with my family and i really enjoyed it. the facillities are good and you dont even have to get up really early to get your sun beds hehe. only problem was once the entertainment had finished alot of people went to bed or on their balconys due to younger childern. this meant that the place was dead by half elleven. it is best to go into can'picafor town or to playa de muro town.

We have just returned from Viva Bahia after venturing abroad for the first time with our two children age 5 and 3 and it was fantastic. I had read the reviews about the hotel on trip advisor and hoped it would be as good as everyone said it was and we weren't disappointed. The hotel is in an excellent location right on a beautiful sandy beach. The apartments were lovely and would suggest you get a pool view if you can. The food was fabulous and there was a varied menu with plenty for the children to eat (beware of the breakfast buffet every day I'm sure we came back pounds heavier!) The hotel is spotlessly clean and the service excellent. The entertainment is great and the team make such an effort with the children ours didn't want to come home.

We stayed at Viva Bahia for two weeks in August 2005. We discovered this place during a two week stay at the adjacent Alcudia Pins in June 2004. This review contrasts the two hotels. Clientele: Viva reception told me that about 60% of their guests are Scandinavian, I guess the rest are 35% German and 5% British and Spanish. When we arrived and looked round, my wife and I joked that we now appeared to be amongst the "beautiful people"… never before have I seen such a concentration of tanned blondes. The hotel and grounds were much prettier, cleaner and quieter than Alcudia Pins. All instructions and announcements were in multiple languages including English, all the shows are in English. So don't worry about language barriers. We also met some very nice people there – a big Hi to Danielle and Nicole who helped play with & entertain our kids. By contrast, Pins clients seemed to be almost exclusively British. Pins is a great place to admire body art. In a quick survey one afternoon I saw that one out of every 5 people had a visible tattoo. Some tattoos were very artistic, others just said "England". The Pins pool and rows of sunlounger was very crowded and loud, it's a big pool with a popular water-slide. At the end of the afternoons the water looked murky and unpleasant. Hotel Cleanliness: Viva was flawlessly clean. Every morning a small army of green-clad staff cleaned and tidied everything including floors and sunloungers. Pins is also cleaned every day; the main difference is that at Viva, the clientele keep the place clean, at Pins the clientele make and leave a huge mess. We were disgusted to see the rubbish left near or under sunloungers at the end of each day at Pins; several other reviewers commented on this too, papers, wrappers, cans, left over food - even used nappies. Hotel Layout and appearance: Viva consists of several 3-floor apartment blocks in a roughly horseshoe shaped layout, the open end of the horseshoe opening to the circular pool-bar building beyond which lies the white sandy beach. The pool, entertainment areas and restaurant outdoor seating areas are all in the centre of the horseshoe. Dozens of trees provide shade where people can sit to talk, drink, read, play cards and so on. The main pool is spanned by a small footbridge, a segregated shallow end-section of the pool is perfect for smaller children. Sunloungers and sunshades loosely circle the pool. I recommend you request a pool-view apartment if you want to avoid overlooking the adjacent hotels or the road. We also avoided the ground floor for security reasons. Each apartment has a balcony, the facades are cunningly indented and pastel-colour painted to give the appearance of a small village. To maintain the appearance, Viva requests that guests do not hang towels over the balconies to dry – this works and the place just looks great. Even the internal corridors are light, spacious and clean. Pins is much larger complex – the same horseshoe design but with some additional parallel accommodation blocks. The design and colour scheme is more uniform, offset by a random multi-coloured tapestry of beach-towels draped over most balconies. There are far fewer shady open areas, the sunloungers were arranged in tightly packed rows where people (many painfully scarlet) lay elbow to elbow devoted to sun-worship. Amazingly there were no sunshades at all in June 2004 – although this year I saw that some had now been installed.. maybe in response to customer complaints? Getting a Sunlounger: The stereotype of the Germans getting up early to place towels on sunloungers needs an update. At Pins we were amused to see most sunloungers reserved by 6am – and that's with a British clientele! It's just how things worked there - if you didn't reserve a sunlounger very early on, you didn't get to use one at all. Things are far more civilised at Viva: there's a hotel rule that no sunloungers may be reserved before 9:15. This rule was obeyed by most people – and the miscreants determined to challenge the system fell foul of Plan B: "Juan". Juan was one of the hotel maintenance team who had an additional morning duty to harvest up orphaned towels. Watching his significant frame striding purposefully and grimly along the sunloungers gathering up towels gave me much pleasure. Vacant sunloungers can be found in the afternoons and there's a sunshade to roughly every 3 or 4 sunloungers. Entertainment & activities for kids: A team of mainly Swedish entertainers handle all daytime and evening events (but they are supplemented by the "Viva Flying Team" or external performers for some shows). They are an eclectic bunch. Just a mention a few: Emma, classic pretty Swedish looks with high cheekbones and blonde hair bunched up and the most fascinating range of facial expressions. Johan, a tall blonde Swede, reminds me of a young David Bowie and has a great talent for face painting. Andreas, Swedish again, has a zany sense of humour that has us laughing every night; Kelly, a native Majorcan brunette was our daughter's favourite. The evenings start with a "mini-disco" on and in front of the stage, a chance for the kids to dance and play. This introduces the hotel's narcoleptic superhero dog mascot called BUFO, whose role is to wait for the kids for scream for him to appear.. then to fall asleep and wait for the kids to scream loud enough to wake him again. Banal, but the younger kids love it! Following that there's a stage show for kids like Cinderalla then later a show for the adults.. anything from Abba to Queen. The singing and dancing was good enough for my appreciation – but I think the Pins team may be slightly more "professional". Audience participation games take place at both hotels. For example drinking through straws, dancing, or collecting items of clothing from the audience. The Pins ones were slightly more risqué, ones I remember include the "coin in the bum game" and reciting tongue twisters like "Old Mrs Hunt had a rough cut punt…." If you don't fancy taking part, simply don't volunteer. Viva has a daily kids club with a range of activities, though we think the oganisation and running of these activities could have been improved. There are ping pong and pool tables, minigolf, various arcade games, a sandy playground section with slides, swings etc and even a (free) bouncy castle. But there are no crèche or babysitting options at all. Pins has many on-site shops and additional facilities such as the hire of battery driven kiddie-cars (you can exploit those even if you stay in Viva Bahia) Eating out: Viva has a main restaurant and a pool bar serving a wide range of meals, There are other beach restaurants withini strolling distance or you can take a bus (or even a water-bus from the pier on the beach) to other places. Eating in: With a two and a five year old, we decided to go self-catering. This is where the otherwise outstanding Viva facilities proved surprising modest. The apartment kitchenettes are equipped with just 2 hot rings, a fridge with small freezer section plus a sink and crockery. There was no toaster, kettle, microwave, grill or oven. This is a minor inconvenience and with a little imagination you can get by just fine (I toasted bread on a hot ring and fried a ready-made pizza J) I still find it strange that Viva lets you rent a bicycle, a roomsafe, a cot, lets you borrow towels for the pool but does not even offer the rent of more kitchen appliances. Perhaps they want to encourage people to use their restaurants. Both hotels have mini-supermarkets onsite and nearby for grocery shopping – but you pay for the convenience. The Pins one has a wider range of products, the Viva one has some Swedish and German specialities. Full-size and cheaper supermarkets are a few minutes drive away in C'an Picafort or Alcudia. Summary: we chose to stay at Alcudia Pins in 2004 for two reasons: its location right by a great beach and the advertised child entertainment, crèche with some evening baby-sitting facilities. We had a good time despite the crowds, the mess and the somewhat shambolic running of the creche. Pins has developed a reputation as "Butlins in the Sun". If you want to be surrounded by fellow Brits in a very large and busy hotel, do battle for the tightly packed sunloungers and step through the mess at the end of the day - then this is indeed the place for you. But after one evenings visit to Viva Bahia we were determined to stay at Viva Bahia next time. Viva Bahia is a fantastic hotel, far superior to Alcudia Pins in most respects. I would happily return to Viva Bahia. It's smaller, cleaner, calmer, prettier and altogether more civilised that Pins. Would you fly economy if you were offered business class?

Stayed at the Viva Bahia in august 2005.Great hotel directly on the beach of playa de muro.Stayed self catering but we was given the chance to go half board when we arrived.Very clean well maintained hotel.Stayed there with my husband and two children.Plenty for the children to do,there is a childrens club(hotel run)where you can leave your children over 4 or you can stay with them while they do activities like mini golf,mini boules etc .It is an international hotel with many germans staying there but all the staff speak various languages and the evening entertainment is all in english.This hotel is set amongst about six other 4 star hotels along the playa de muro beach about 3 miles away from the hustle and bustle of alcudia centre.Stayed in the same area last year in the alcudia pins hotel but the viva bahia is far superior.

We liked this hotel a lot.....we took our two kids (aged 2 and 4) there in April 2005. First off, it must rate as one of the mose spotlessly clean and well-maintained hotels I've ever stayed in (and I stay in a lot of 5 star hotels for business) - everything is incredibly clean and the gardens and pool are meticulously maintained. Service is very good too - always friendly - everyone seems to speak all the main European languages. Breakfast buffet is good quality, but we thought the dinner options were less interesting. There are a not that many options to eat out in the nearby surroundings - but you are only 10 minutes drive from Alcudia where there are good choices. If you can face a 20 minute drive, the restaurants in Pollensa are even better. The rooms are large and well laid out. We had a one bed apartment (the two sofas easily converted into single beds for the kids). Kitchen facilities are OK basic - two electric plates, sink etc (but no kettle or toaster!). Several supermarkets are nearby and open early till late. The hotel pools are spectacular - really nice. The beach is long and of fine white sand - though in the off-season week we were there, the shore was covered in black seaweed (and in the morning bulldozers were learing it! I wouldn't let that put you off - I imagine in season and in better weather things are different). The kids entertainment is great - young and enthusiastic entertainers round up the kids from around the pool every couple of hours and take them off for fun and games - but usually within sight or earshot. There's some OK swings and slides too. Around the corner are lots of amusement arcades - good or bad depending on your point of view. The indoor pool is small but well-heated; nice small jacuzzi and sauna too. Theres a National Park across the road which is easy to explore (and huge!) - if you're a bird watcher apparently its particularly wonderful.

My husband and I really needed a break and went to the Viva Bahia in Alcudia 14-18 April 2005. We took a real chance on the weather and ended up very lucky as we came back with nice tans. Although alot of Alcudia shops, etc. are not open just yet (before the season really starts) there was plenty to do such as the Alcudia market (every Sunday and Tuesday) and the port of Alcudia for lots of shopping and restaurants. This hotel is located in the Playa De Muro section of Alcudia. From what I could see, it is definitely the nicest hotel in Playa de Muro. The staff was organized, welcoming and very attentive. I can't say enough good things about the food! We got half board and it was amazing. Loads of choices and different things every day. This is definitely the way to go. Our room was extremely nice and we had a nice balcony and we only got a studio. I am sure the apartments are very nice and would be great for families. Although we didn't take children with us, it would be a great place to go with kids as they have really good entertainment lined up. I imagine it could get quite noisy during the high season with kids running around but it was very quiet while we were there. If you like to go bike riding, Alcuidia is definitely the place to go and the Viva Bahia rents nice bikes as well. All in all, a great hotel, absolutely no problems and fabulous food!

The Viva Bahia lived up to everything we wanted it to be. Located in the Albufeira National Park area of Playa De Muro, it was chosen for it's out of town location but easy access via bus to Alcudia or C'an Picafort. The staff are very welcoming, very efficient and go out of their way to help. Although many guests are not from the U.K. English is spoken well by all The accommodation is spacious, well presented, and very clean. One of the nicest complex's we have been to - definitely 4* The grounds themselves are lovely, with attention paid to trailing trellis's, attractive large pool with a safe childrens section, playground and situated virtually on the beach exactly as it looked on the website. The whole outside area is cleaned daily and there are ample sunbeds around the pool. Nightime entertainment is available for both children and grown-ups (including teenagers) and there is a full daytime activity programme which we didn't use, but seemed to cater for all kinds of activities - all run by a great team of entertainment staff All in all this is a truly lovely complex and we had a wonderful holiday. We would certainly go there again in 2005