Las Terraza del Albir, Albir, Costa Blanca, Spain - Hotel & Holiday Reviews

" Great relaxing holiday. "

Submitted By: Andrew-C

I stayed there with my family for two weeks, our party of people were spread within the age groups of between 18 - 30 and 55+
Albir Gardens is a clean, bright and open place, the staff, mainly spanish speaking, are all friendly and specially the Bar staff, who are always smiling and enjoying themselves. Whilst on previous reviews i have read that bar staff restrict the drinks to one per person, this is only true during very very busy periods, even then they are usually quite slack and dont usually mind giving more then one. however, i think some people may have read the notice stating that it was only one drink per person, and anticipated that these were the rules, i had no problem at all getting sometimes upto 8 drinks per time.
The food in the restaurant was usually very basic and I could only define it as Satisfactory there was medium selection which most of which stayed consistent throughout, it did have some variation over the time I had stay which included Italian nights, Mexican nights and other various styles of food.
For those that are Self catering, there is a supermarket across the road, which is always clean, tidy and contains just about everything you need ( especially the biggest selection of alcohol I have seen in some time! ) there are also a good selection of resturants a short walk away along the main strip.
Annoyingly my apartment was cleaned every morning at approximately 11am, whilst on holiday I personally like to have a lie in, but people who have been claiming they had no cleaners come may well have slept through the cleaners knocking and entering into the rooms. I had to ask the reception to cut down the amount of times my room had been cleaned as it was starting to cut into my sleeping time! However, the cleaners were usually very good, often cleaning up to almost spotlessness on most occasions - but occasionally it was a quick sweep,mop and replacing towels.
However, the hotel and the town of Albir is not really suited for the younger crowd of 18 - 30, Albir is a sleepy little town outside of Benedorm home to very few entertaining pubs ( Apart from the Dubliner across the road which stays open past 12, but is very expensive for drinks, on the plus side sells draft Guinness ) and is better suited for a quiet relaxing break away from the hustle and bustle of life.
For those looking for more entertaining places, the Hotel usually host a childrens disco at 8:30 and then some form of adult entertainment after this. I found that a night in Benedorm was the best bet for the 18 - 30 crowd. To get to benedorm from Albir apartments usually costs about 12Euros and a Taxi from Benedorm usually costs about 10 euros. Most pubs and bars on New Street in Benedorm often had Promo girls and boys, these were the people to talk to and could arrange a free cocktail or a free shot, usually with free entry to the bar too. drinks can be expensive on the weekend, but during the week some places had special offers such as buy one get one free drinks.
On another note, there is Free internet wi-fi in the main lobby and the bar area, we were lucky enough to catch it within our apartment so this was always a plus point when checking emails and surfing the internet.

Advice: Beach is a good 10 min walk away from the hotel, it is a pebble beach but does have some great views

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