Caribbean Village Agador

Rooms - Damp, dirty and shabby even though there been recently refurbished. Food - Lukewarm to raw and repetation. Pools - Only surfaced cleaned, bottom of pools flithy. Sunbeds - 5am dash to secure bed, a lot of beds are broken and the mattresses are dirty. Beach - Hotel area crampled and you are always hassled by the locals selling you their goods. Our two week family hoilday was ruined by us all contracting the mystery diarrhoea and vomiting sickness which was rife amounst the British guests at this hotel. Good points Staff are wonderful and the country is lovely but i would return but not to this hotel avoid it like the plague.

I just returned from staying at this hotel with my partner. Our rating would be somewhere between 1 and 2 out of 5. Please note the Caribbean Village is the name for the entire complex, which consists of 2 hotels - Hotel Agador and Pueblo Tamlelt. Agador is the nice hotel and Tamlelt is the cheap on on the complex (e.g. Tamlelt reception is tucked away at one end of the complex and it's rooms are far more basic and dirtier). ACCOMMODATION We started off staying at the Tamlelt. On the first night we found cockroaches and ants in the room. We moved rooms, but still had a problem with ants. The Tamlelt reception were ambivalent about this and seemed not to care. Although we were there for 1 week, we ended up moving rooms 4 times, eventually being dealt with personally by the manager of the Hotel Agador, who got us a nicer cleaner room in the Agador. FOOD The food was dangerous, my girlfriend was sick twice and my stomach was not right all week. The standard of the food is really very poor, albeit we were not exactly expecting 5 star luxury. But one would expect a basic level of safety and this place simply cannot be trusted. I am glad to be home to cook clean good food. More than one waiter actually advised us not to eat in the hotel, or at least stick to salads...I found this unbelievable, but in fact believable once we tasted the food for ourselves. We ended up eating out at local restaurants for 3 nights that we were there and 2 other nights we stuck to the pizzeria as this was a safer option that chinese or sushi, although the pizzeria is not exactly quality (the veg soup was luke warm, the mozzarella and tomato salad was pitiful and the pizza was small). The resort has 2 main 'buffet' restaurants where you can help yourself and the other 6 or so restaurants are 'a la carte', whereby you have to book in advance. On the first morning when we tried to book the pizzeria we were told that it was full until the following week, which was simply ridiculous so we had to complain simply to be able to book into the a la carte restaurant. BEACH The beach is a 5-10 minute walk and the hotel has it's own private area which is actually quite nice and has good sand. The only down side is that they are building a massive new promenadein Agadir, and the JCB diggers are literally 15 metres away from the hotel's private beach. In addition, there is a massive concrete mixing plant immediately behind the private area of beach so please do not expect an idyllic scene! ALL INCLUSIVE? Not quite, you pay for ice cream and crepes around the pool - this is clearly how they take advantage of families with children. You also pay to play tennis and they even charge to use the fitness centre, which simply defies belief when you consider they use the term all inclusive. In law (and I speak with legal experience here), to call it all 'inclusive' is a misrepresentation and if you are covered by the Package Tours Regulations 1992 (i.e. if your holiday is a package holiday), then I believe you have an action in law against whomever your contract is with provided that they have not informed you first of the limitations of the offer prior to you booking. GENERAL COMMENTS We paid over £1,000 for this 1 week all inclusive package. I am now going to dispute this as we suffered an experience that I would not wish on anyone on their holiday. if you are still intent on visiting this resort, please ensure you stay at the Hotel Agador and NOT the Pueblo Tamlelt. Some of the staff in the hotel were quite rude, in fact downright insulting and they need to be removed, especially as most of the staff are very helfpul and friendly and I would not want to tar everyone with the same brush. Finally, please bear in mind that this hotel/complex is built for families, it is not really for couples although we were not told this when we booked. The entertainment, which consisted of an animation team playing the same cheesy 5 songs (incl. Agadoo and Dire Straits for some reason), was very loud from 8pm until 11pm and difficult to escape from anywhere in the complex. if you want a quiet time with your partner, please avoid this place. Even some of the kids we saw looked non-plussed with the entertainment offering, albeit many of the French seemed to love it.

The hotel room was not what i expected for a four star hotel on arrival the hotel grounds looked like what had suffered from a severe earth quake or even a bomb explotion, the rooms are very basic, not clean and desperately need redecorating. The floor tiles had cracks in them, taps were filthy, rusty plug holes and rusty curtain rail with grime allover the shower curtain.Even the toilet looks discusting with cracks and stains allover it. We went all inclusive for the week and what a bad idea that was, the food was the same almost every night and they rarely changed the dishes.... got pretty boring after a couple of days. They had carvery, but instead of slicing the meat for you, the chef would hack the joint into tiny pieces and give you a plate full of bones. The last day i risked having a bowl of cereal and the milk was off, then i had to warn a lady who was about to feed her baby with some! I couldnt wait to come home. If you are wanting a luxury hotel with a nice room then this is not the place for you. I am not normally one to complain but the room was beyond a joke. The best thing about the hotel was the pool area, it was a large area with plenty of room for everyone however If you want to sunbathe by the pool then expect an early start because by 7am all the sun loungers are taken which is ridicilous! The hotel was so bad that even First Choice gave us £200 back and an £100 voucher to use on another holiday.... i think they should take this hotel off sale! The hotel is desperately in need of a refurbishment but even if it had one i still dont think i would ever go back to Morocco!

we found the staff and hotel excellant but like most people the themed restuarants were a let down with some odd combo,s of food. it had the only steakhouse that didnt do steaks ,the following night i had a steak in the main restuarant. the beach bar was fine as long as you stayed away from the sellers and guests who bought from them only make it worse for others. but overall its a nice place for a cheap holiday. if you want to buy goods then go to the fixed price shop in the town far cheaper than the sellers at the hotel .agadirs not a bad place if you take the time to get out and about , tip the waiters early and get all the information you,ll need to get by.

Just returned from one week all inclusive at the Carribean Village (me, husband and 13 year old daughter) and had a fantastic time. First Choice flights and transfers went very smoothly, had to complete a form for each of you upon arrival, but this is very quick (have your passports ready) then once checked in you will be shown to your room. We were near reception and were very pleased with our room (2622) it was very spacious with a balcony and terrace (plus 3 chairs already there!). Bed and towels changed everyday, toilet seperate to shower (which is good if you do get a moroccon belly!), nice mirror with a good light for us girlys to get ready in the evening - what more could you ask for? Food - we enjoyed all the food, I can see why some people can get bored of it, especially by the end of 2 weeks, but we enjoyed it all. Breakfast is the best! You have to have an omlette by the egg man as I called him, you can get these spicy beans and sausages and fried bread too. After that we were attacking the croissants and pain du chocolates (allsorts of jams and honey to go in them), then we were having fruit with youghurt! (lovely yoghurts, they were pink and green! but lovely). We don't normally eat this much at home but we only had lunch at the hotel once in the week we were there as we were too full up! Waiters were fantastic, by the second day we had our 2 waiters that we had for the 7 days and they really looked after us. We did get a bit of a moroccan tummy but it wasn't a problem (this is on the second day) what I will suggest to you if you do get it is to carry on eating the food and your body adjusts to all the spices. It wasn't like an illness with stomach cramps so no problem. Think most people got the same but it's a bit taboo isn't it, however the lobby bar toilets never lie! By day 3 I was fine and I put on half a stone during the hol! Went to the A La Cart restaurants, the Moroccon and the sushi. Moroccon was excellent, please go. Sushi was ok but husband was still quite hungry afterwards as sushi is not very big servings is it! You can always go into the buffet afterwards if need be, or wait until 10pm for the snack bar. Beach - first went down there and walked right instead of left (which would of taken us to the hotels private area) and first impressions were awful, we were bombarded with people trying to sell us stuff (only because they could tell a mile off that we had just arrived as we were all white! This did get better by the end of the week and you do become more assertive!) and the sea seemed quite dirty and the waves were very large, not what I'm used to, however...... Once we found the private beach area this made it better and after going into the sea and realising what fun you have jumping the waves I was in my element! There are big 4-6 foot waves (wave size seemed to vary from day to day) you have to jump at the right time for it to carry you! Sea is VERY salty but after the first couple of days you get used to it and it doesn't sting your eyes anymore. We went into Agadir on a couple of days, we had to go to Mcdonalds and we all had a 'macarabia meal' - it was gorgeous you will have to try. 3 meals cost about £8 so cheaper than UK too. Oh and they do vanilla milkshakes! We went on the white tourist train which I would reccomend, it lets you see everything without getting pestered! Watch the roads though when walking, they are maniacs! I would say you get pestered more on the beach than in the town however. Oh must mention Del Boy located at the hotel who I'm sure you will bump into at some point. He sells spices and is a real wheeler deeler, can talk the talk, he's quite funny! I would suggest you buy something off him and for the rest of the holiday you get big waves and smiles from him. I can imagine him being a real pain otherwise! We found him ok though. Had a moroccan meal on our return using his spices which just took us right back so it is a nice thing to take back home! Can't comment on the pools, we aren't pool people and definately would not take part in the 'grab a sunbed' campaign, we are just beach people and feel you could be anywhere sitting around a pool but they seemed to be clean and all the entertainment goes on all day there, great if this is your thing, nightmare if you want to snooze! Entertainment - we weren't bothered about this, tried it once and wasn't too keen but good if you like this sort of thing. However you must go to the moroccon evening - fab! Moroccan dancers, belly dancers, acrobats, a man spinning round (for about 20 minutes!) and snake charmers (however this seemed cruel to me, the snakes were lifeless and he was holding them in the air and shaking his wrist to make it look like the snake was moving! I'd heard they drug the snakes and now I beileve it). There's a camel at the hotel for the kids to ride all day on Friday (Moroccon day) such a beautiful camel called chocolate, it doesn't spit and seems very clean. It even sits down and watches the show in the evening with everyone! Also there's the bedouin tent serving mint tea and water pies every evening, apple flavoured tobacco is smoked through it, went in there a couple of times, was quite relaxing. Can't think of much else to say - we would go back to Morocco and back to this hotel which I suppose says it all really, however we do prefere to try different places. Maybe when we get stuck for new places that take our fancy we may well return. Fab experience which I'm pleased we sampled, hope you enjoy too.

The hotel appeared very nice. Our room was spacious and clean and had a huge balcony. The facilities were excellent especially the 4 spacious pools. The thing that let it down was the food - it looked nice, tasted o.k and there was a good choice but we all had upset tummies whilst we were there. The Medina themed restaurant was the best, the tex mex was the worst. The food and hotel became quite boring very quickly. The waiters were quite pervy around our 16 year old daughter and any time she was on her own they tried to make arrangements to meet her outside the hotel. Agadir was a big disappointment - a big ugly resort. Did the 4x4 excursion but thought it was a rip off. Also did the Essouria excursion and really enjoyed it - very nice place. Agadir beach is o.k if you keep looking out to sea. Look to the left and you will see building work, look behind and you will see a concrete plant. Hawkers are a nuisance but if you dont sit next to the rope in the hotels section then they cannot get to you and it is possible to get some peace. There is no peace to be had at the hotel, it is imposible to escape the 'entertainment' and the other holiday makers got on my nerves lots of chavs and very rude French people. There are 2 excellent restaurants at the back of the hotel one was called La Scala where the fish was great.

asked for money for sex flys on food cockroaces every where animation team sleazy entertainment x rated dont take your kids staff rude watch the drinks all watered down mind the paving shop keeper steals the kids toys and re sells them ice cream no longer part of the AI deal nor morning snacks AI is full board with drinks staff stand outside toilets trying to sell marjuana

After reading some of the reviews on this site i was rather worried about going but thought that most people were moaning and that it cant be that bad.......? If only i had listened! Me and my partner decided to try "some were different this year" and chose this resort as it was reasonably priced and looked nice on the video. BUT id like to no were and when this video was filmed! On our first day when we arrived we decided to wander down to the "private beach" what a joke! It was a few sun beds with a soft drink bar with a rope around it! This was not so private as its next to a building site! And on our return to the hotel, we were offered to purchase some drugs by the local youth! Unfortunately this wasn’t a isolated incident as on the second day we also saw the exchange of a "suspicious item" between a chef and animation staff member. And a little word of warning watch out for certain members the Animation Team….especially if your young, femaleand single. But being full of the joys of holiday i didn’t let this bother me to much. Now if you want a sun bed at any point during your stay either be willing to rise at 5am to beat the good old GERMANS! or be prepared to TIP the pool man other wise its the concrete for you! Now on to the food.......i thought it was ok always the same things, beef with spices.....spicy beef! ...until the third evening when i was very ill, they warn you about the water but the wash all salad in it, cook veg and on the last day i learnt that they WATER DOWN THE ORANGE JUICE WITH TAP WATER!!! I was not the only one who suffered at least 90% of all the English people i spoke to were ill at some point. STILL not wanting this to ruin my holiday i was determined to carry on and more or less had a good holiday, until i tried the ALL INCLUSSIVE SPORTS...Tennis! The only thing all inclusive about it is the ground and the air you breathe.....you have to PAY for the balls, racket and this is the same for most of the activities! But one good thing is the rooms and resort are clean and look very nice, the majority of the staff are lovely and can’t do enough for you given the right tip! So if you are considering the Caribbean village as you next holiday id strongly suggest you re think you trip.

We had read varying reports on the hotel after booking it but had a really good holiday. Our room was away from the main pool area which can be noisy at night and was clean and comfortable. We tipped the maid 100dhr at the beginning of the week and she was brilliant. Each day she staged our 3 year old's teddy, reading a book, looking out the window etc which she thought was brilliant. The shower and toilet were all clean and the towels changed every day The trip was all-inclusive. You have a choice of two main restaurants for breakfast and lunch, the smaller one is quieter and more french feeling, although the same food. Staff were very good, tip 15-20dhr a day and they remember your drinks, top them up etc and can advise on costs and trips. Anyone looking for a british breakfast may need to go to the British pub down the road. They do eggs, croissants, cold meats, loads of cereals, great french bread. Coffee is very good as is the mint tea. Lunch and dinner offers about 6-8 hot options, chicken, fish, meat, chips and rice plus a large range of salads, bread and boring french pastries and fruit salad. After a week they do start to feel a bit similar but the quality of the meat and temperature was fine. We all ate the salads and never had any dodgy stomaches. You are given vouchers for a range of specialist restaurants, I think 7 in total. Arrive at the booking window at 9.30am on first day and book the ones you want then. The Morroccan one was in a nice restuarant and the salads were great, the rest of the meal didn't meet the quality of the tagines in the main restaurant. Steak house is OK but you don't get to choose how or what is cooked for you, well done suits all. Pizza place (wife's choice) was OK. We didn't try the others. Wide range of pools, some deep enough for proper swimming, main pool has nice big shallow section for kids. Main pool area can be very noisy and full of large smoking germans, french and english people. Animation team do a great job getting people up if that is your thing. Kids club would have only suited French children when we where there, good facilities but would have been very intimidating for UK kids, but I think there are more UK kids later in the summer. As with many resorts you need to bag loungers ealry with your own towels, or speak to the pool attendants on the first day. Most will be gone by 8.30am. Beach is 5 minutes walk away, across road and down track. Bit grubby but nothing worse than you'd see in Greece or France. Beach is wonderful, clean wide and long, plus private section for hotel where there were always loungers, not the case by the pools. A few people trying to sell things but they are fine if you say no politely. The free drinks were fine, lager nice, wines were typical french plonk style. Spirits were OK, tipping the bar staff on the first night guarantees bigger servings! I never had problems getting rounds of drinks or having to wait for service. Shops in complex aren't too expensive, but haggle and you can get a bargain. Start at 25% of what they suggest and work out what you want to pay, if they don't drop enough walk away. If they can come down they will. They will often start at more than an item would cost you in UK, but they will then come down. Check things carefully, some of the 'silver' is very thin and the leather bags often have very flimsy catches, buckels etc. Beware the spices and perfume sellers, both on site and off, it can be expensive once they have added 6 or 7 things together, it also makes haggling more difficult. Agadir is OK, take the half day trip, the Kasbah is interesting but the camel trips are not cheap (there is a camel on site on a Friday for free photos and short ride, safer but less picturesque) and beware having your photo taken with baby goats etc, they will try and charge you a fortune. The Souk (1,000 stalls) is incredible, rather smelly and bewildering, as long as you don't catch the trader's eye and say No politely they wil leave you alone. If you do see anything you like look round but they will leave you alone if you say no. Think of it like a massive car boot sale. Day trip to Marrakesh was long, 4 hours there and 5 back but worth it. The Souk has 15,000 stalls and is rather smelly but shouldn't be missed. Find a cafe to sit and watch people and drink mint tea is good fun and gets you out of the heat, but the toilets are pretty horrid. We were very impressed with what we got for £350 each. The food and drink were fine, the room was cool and clean and the complex pretty and very up together, lots of grass, flowers etc. The Morroccans are very friendly, especially if you have children and will tell you about their own. Remember they earn little and work long hours (even if very slowly sometimes), be nice to them and tip them and they will make your time even better. Haggling can be fun, but decide what you want to pay and don't shift, walking away works wonders and is much better way to buy than the fixed price shops which cost 50-60% more than elsewhere. We're going back to Morocco, might spend a few days in Agadir but there is a lot else to see along the coast and in the mountains.

We booked the holiday as a spare of the moment as we where supposed to be going to Amsterdam but we saw the movie "Hostel" a week before and changed our minds! lol! We went with First Choice booked through their website and paid £400 per person for 1 Week all inclusive including the booking of the executive room at manchester airport. We enjoyed our time at the airport mainly due to the executive lounge and would recommend it anytime, you get free drinks all soft/alcoholic and coffee and snacks (nuts/crackers/cheese etc) When arriving in Morocco we went through arrivals and it was roasting hot! We had to fill in a standard form in the airport before going through customs and this took about 10 mins including queues and went to collect the luggage, we waited about 10 mins for this, then we went through and got the english money exchanged which took just a few minutes. We were met by men trying to carry our cases for us after a tip, however we had been prior warned as the coaches are just 20 seconds walk away so its a rip off. Keep tight hold of your luggage as they will try and take it to carry for you. The coach was air conditioned and took a journey through some of the poorest areas we've ever seen, men begging and men in suits hitchhiking! Shocking! Road madness and very dangerous driving so wear your seatbelt! We where the last to be dropped off, dont be worried about the hotel as where they drop you off is the side entrance and looks a bit dodgy! Its NOT! We walked round and where very impressed. We where directed into the main hotel reception and our cases put to one side, we had to fill in a form and got to do this sitting on very comfy sofas with a free ice cold glass of pop. Once checked in, which took about 3 mins we where taken to our rooms, our porter didnt ask for a tip. but we had just 10dhs (about £0.60p) and this pleased him, after all he had just carried two heavy cases up 3 flights of stairs! Our room was based in a block of about 12 appartments inside a low rise white washed block. Very clean and tidy and nice and cool, we had double patio doors which opened out onto a balcony which had a small table and two plastic chairs. The room was blue and white tiled with sheets and blankets on the beds, lots of wardrobe space, and drawers, and a nice large dressing table and small stools. The toilet was seperate from the shower room, which is handy with two women getting ready! And very handy when one of you has a poorly stomach! The gardens surrounding are lovely and well maintained, and very vast. We went to the main pool which is where the entertainment was, you couldnt miss it you could hear the music from the main reception! lol! However it was nice to arrive to other people in the party holiday mood! We, armed with our all inclusive wristbands headed for the bar!!!! The barmen on the pool bar are very nice, friendly a little flirty and make the holiday fun! They are gonna come onto you if your female and take it with general fun and dismiss anyone who comes on to strongly. The main resturant is nice and light and cool. there is orange juice (however its powdered and bitter)tea and coffee during breakfast. We had omelettes nearly every day from the omelette man! You'd pick your ingredients and he would cook them fresh, if travelling with kids make sure theyre cooked through as sometimes if in a rush it would be slightly runny. Dinners and evening meals where lovely and alcohol on tap. You could also book one of the al-a-carte resurants which where nice enough. pizza. steak. chinese etc. We only went to the steak and the pizza and all was nice and well cooked. Entertainment was good during the day, the staff made a huge effort to get you to get up and dance and join in with the activities which where all free, Laura went to play pingpong and we both went to the arabic lessons which was fun, but not needed as we made our own entertainment. However after midnight it was none exsistent, which made it dificult for two young women. There was a night disco but drinks where chargable. We booked the marakesh express trip, which was 4hrs drive there and 4hrs back, marakesh was nice but I wouldnt recommend it unless you have severe patience and want to be dragged around musiums and old buildings for most of the day, us along with other younguns had to complain to get more free shopping time in the medina and main square. It was hot, sweaty, stunk of wee and men! Plus if your a lady on the larger side (sami) like me beware, you will get stared at as they seem to like you in marakesh! lol! Skinny mini's (laura) seemed to get the attention in the main resort of Agadir!! The berber night is amazing and finished our holiday off with a bang, I wont go into too much detail but its brilliant and you wont forget it! See the photos we've added! lol! We went out a few times outside the hotel grounds and got pestered more than we did in marakesh, taxi drivers, tour touts and basic beggers if your single women you will get pestered, however we where never touched, or attacked in anyway. The people there rely on tourists for there life and feeding their families so they are gonna be pushy to get your money through selling crap you dont really need! Deal with it, or go to Benidorm! All in all the holiday was a right laugh, and the hotel was nice and clean and did its job. Would we return? Unlikely, purely due to the fact there's just too many places in the world to visit yet. Would we recommend it to a close friend? Yes, but if you have young children under the age of 15 I would go elsewhere, although there is a kids club its not a child friendly hotel and certainly not for people with walking difficulties or disabled as its just stairs stairs stairs!! One tip would be to watch your step when walking and entering the buildings as there are bloody small steps everywhere and people used to trip over all the time. we had to walk round saying to each other "step" "step!!" etc all the time. Overall a nice hotel in a rough part of town, friendly waiters and barmen, (watch your teenage daughters!). If you have booked and your visiting soon, then say hi to Rachid and Yousef on the main pool bar from sami and laura! ENJOY!