Orada Apartamentos Turísticos - Marina de Albufeira

Lovely location, great pool area which isn’t so busy and studios are a great size. Mattress horrible and not comfy at all with springs coming out. Pool very cold and lots of flying ants at night time in the apartment which wasn’t pleasant. Probably wouldn’t stay again.

The apartments owned by Orada Marina are excellent, reception staff are fabulous especially Monica, great location HOWEVER ...... BE CAREFUL that your travel agent books with them directly or you might get an apartment via Gravetur who own a few apartments in the complex. The first half of our stay was awful, cockroaches, filthy studio apartment, front door wouldn't open, no air conditioning. I can't stress enough, this apartment was owned by Gravetur and NOT Orada marina. We moved out after day 4 and Monica from Orada Marina had a 1 bed apartment available for the rest of our stay. It was 100 times better. All the issues we had, we put forward to Gravetur. They cleaned the apartment but we were not entitled to air conditioning. An offer of an upgrade was made on day 5 but we rejected it as we were not meant to be in that property from the start. Please make sure your travel agent deals with Orada Marina and not Gravetur. I would have given Orada Marina 5 stars but I gave 3 stars only to let people know about this other property rental company.

We were very pleasantly surprised on our short out-of-season stay. The price was very reasonable, the receptionist was extremely pleasant and couldn’t be more helpful, the apartment was a good size and reasonably well appointed, plus it was very clean. We took the free shuttle bus to the old town and back, we really didn’t expect that kind of service out of season, again the driver was very helpful and pleasant. My only small criticism was that a couple of the power outlets were damaged and unusable, not to the point of being dangerous, just a little inconvenient. We would definitely stay there again and would happily recommend it.