Maritim Hotel

We booked on a B&B basis as we wanted to sample the food in the local restaurants. We found two very good restaurants nearby but on the two occasions we ate in the Maritim hotel the food was equally as good. Our room was clean and adequate. We found the staff to be extremely helpful. We booked several trips through the hotel reception staff, who arranged for our breakfast to be ready for us prior to our early morning pick-ups, before the restaurant was open.
The continental breakfasts were ample, and we could eat as much as we wanted. A good variety of bread, cheeses, meats, fruits, scrambled eggs, sausages.
Although a large development was underway across the road, it didn’t affect us as we spent most of the day sightseeing and exploring the area.
The staff gave us a copy of the local bus timetable and for a couple of Euros we were able to walk across the road and catch the local bus to Albufeira, although they did not run too often throughout the day. The beach was a few minutes walk from the hotel, small but secluded.
A pleasant hotel, much quieter than if we had been in Albufeira itself. We will definitely go back again.

When booking with Travelox whom we found out later to be a very disconcerting company.
One of the first things we asked was does it cater for small children, they said it was. It does not even have a children’s pool the, depths from 1 to 2 metres, the indoor pool is locked up and smelt, to get into the indoor pool area you had to get a key as it was locked also to turn the lights on as it was very dark even during the daytime.
You had to have a member of staff with you to go to the gymnasium, which was also locked. There are only 18 sunbeds for the whole pool area, which didn’t really matter as the hotel was always empty. The bar was always deserted, it seemed as if the reception staff who were very kind and considerate were not at reception, you couldn’t get a drink as they did the serving as well, it was a bit like Fawlty Towers.
You have to get a taxi into the town as it was too far to walk with 2 young children, the manager kindly offered to take us which we thought was rather nice, then promptly said at a cost of 10 euros.
I didn’t like the idea of vending machines scattered around the hotel to get drinks or a snack , the hotel was like no other holiday hotel I have ever stayed at, it was much to quiet, like a morgue.
The rooms to me seemed ok, nice bathroom but that’s about all.
I would not recommend it to anyone. On a par with other hotels I have stayed in I give it 2*. It was more like a motel for business people to stop overnight or very short stay