Iberostar Selection Albufera Playa★★★★

We booked the premium seaview room with the double bed and when we checked in, we got a room with no sea view but the parking lot instead and only one small bed. The resort was completely booked out so we had to stay in that room the first night. Luckily, the guest manager Teresa upgraded us to a seafront view suite starting the next day which was wonderful. The next three days were nice. The food was good and so was the service, to the most part. Some of the staff does not speak English, so it was challenging at times to communicate the food that we wanted and special needs we had due to food allergies which the hotel does not communicate about with their food. On day 4, my wife and I got a massage at the spa. Her therapist used menthol gel and put it on my wife's ears and upper face with some of it getting into her eye, all without asking prior. My wife had a reaction and immediately showered off at the spa. Burning and a headache followed. She then asked for a cream to help sooth her skin. After the applied the cream, they asked her for 54 Euros extra, for just the cream. We obviously were furious. The therapist caused this problem in the first place and then charged extra for a littlw bit of cream? I spoke with the guest manager Teresa about this and all we got was that their staff are professionals. No "I am sorry this happened". After talking to Teresa's manager, we got at least the massage refunded but still paid for the cream. That was all totally mismanaged.

Nice place, easy and convenient

Perfect hotel for family. Best all inclusive we’ve ever stayed at. Great food, wonderful staff, perfect activities and location!

Let’s start with the good stuff : - the food is excellent, in quality and variety, especially the buffet. - the staff are very nice, friendly and professional. Special thanks to the people working in restaurants and the animation team. Small issue was with the house keeping which do our room a bit late (usually after 3pm), probably short stuffed, not the ones to blame. What I didn’t like about the hotel: - the hotel provides you with a water carafe which you have to fill each time from a common water dispenser and it’s terribly slow so at night times you have to do the line. If you wake up in the middle of the night thirsty then it’s an issue. It’s good to be eco conscious but making money out of that by selling a small reusable « plastic » bottle for 4.90 doesn’t seem so ethical. Walking around the hotel you can see that everyone has it. - we booked a premium room which has nothing premium but a convertible couch which is non confortable at all. -at the check-in we have been told that there is a nice rooftop pool with an amazing view but we found out when we were heading up there that you need to pay extra fees (star prestige or something) to get access to some parts of the hotel including that. Ps: when I pay for an all inclusive, I expect to have 3 meals per day, if the check-in is at 3 and the check-out is at 11 then you can’t have that.