Pine Cliffs Hotel, a Luxury Collection Resort, Algarve

beautyful resort

distance from the beach with some stairs without easy accesss for the baby stroller

The Resort is beautiful and well Maintained. Access to the beach is easy and red cliffs offer a dramatic backdrop to the white buildings of the resort and the beautiful planting. The staff are lovely and good fun. The resort is spotless. The pools are all lovely. The no claiming your sun lounger until you are ready to use it was a dream.

Apart from the XXL restaurant and the rather expensive Japanese restaurant the food was not 5 star. The breakfast buffet was good and always kept well stocked but the filter coffee and the coffee machines were dreadful. However my main complaint was the buffet and Indian restaurant were closed. The Italian and the cafe corda were pretty poor food offerings. Definitely not 5 star. We were also on half board but I didn’t realise this was a €55 limit. And did not include water at the table. The constant adding of a tip was also annoying and embarrassing. I wish they would just pay their staff better. Even if you bought an over priced cream from the cart there was a recommended tip added and it was up to you to remove it. Which I found slightly embarrassing in front of the staff. Everything was very expenses. £50 for a 1 hr game of tennis seemed steep. Golf around £120 for 9 holes after adding on equipment.

Modern, comfortable, clean

Lovely proximity to the beach. Nice gym.

Super busy. They don’t have enough beach beds on the beach for everyone. They leave a whole front row free, charging €120 for the day, that nobody buys. They add a 10% to every bill in the hotel, even if you just got a bottle of water. We arrived on Monday and there were no tennis courts available until Friday. The gym classes were €18 even as a hotel guest. They were poor and felt they were designed for an older crowd. Breakfast had loads of flies around. It was our honeymoon - so we still had a great time, but I felt let down.