Ambar Beach

we enjoyed every second of our time at Alua Village. we really felt like the hotel paid close attention to detail such as olives and nuts as snacks at the Terrace Bar, a different ‘Welcome Cocktail’ every night at dinner, a Mr Whippy Ice Cream Machine every day at lunch - it was little touches that we appreciated. I have seen a couple negative reviews regarding the À La Carte Restaurant - we found the À La Carte to be amazing! the restaurant was done out really nicely, the menu was extensive 5 Options for each course, the staff were really friendly and most importantly the food was exquisite, so much so we actually paid to go back for a second visit! there was never any difficulty in getting a sunbed, no need to reserve unless you like a particular spot as always lots of beds free! lastly, the staff were lovely especially the Animation Team who worked tirelessly and Lilli & Rosie in the restaurant and Pool Bar. I definitely recommend this hotel.

We have just returned from a 11 night stay , the hotel is clean and modern staff are all lovely and work so hard , We had a beautiful sea view from our room about 20mins walk it is well worth a visit very pretty you can see the chipmunks on the way down. No problems with getting a sun lounger plenty avaialble even later morning with most getting plenty of sun Food is tasty plenty of variety only slighltly negavtive could do with better labelling as was hard to tell what was vegetarian. Drinks wine you help yourself to including cava white and rose , we were MFC , so had branded drinks options and bottles of branded soft drinks , also got to keep our room until 3pm , we did one night in the a la carte which was nice. On my husbands birthday i ordered a cake and wine and they decorated the table . Evening entertainment some really good professional acts we saw a magician , cladyis night our favourite and african acrobats , on the other nights staff work hard to put on various shows , would be nice to see a few more professional acts. We would definetly return, we would have preferred a room with a seperate sleeping area for our son as he is now 12.

If we start with the positives, it’s a beautiful hotel and the Pool area is beautiful however the hotel is rundown. There was a lot of things that weren’t quite working when we got there. We found the pool bar to be inconsistently open and some days not open at all and because of the hotels all inclusive system which is you can only have one token for one plastic cup throughout the day which gets recycled we were walking quite often for a long time to get one drink which was often nearly gone by the time we got back to Where we were sitting. I’d also like to comment on the food. It was very very same thing so breakfast would would almost always be the same scrambled eggs with water in or fried eggs not cooked so it wasn’t the best breakfast. with lunch there was a little bit of rotation and same with dinner but not much variation and so we ended up going out most of the time to either have a meal or two out outside of the hotel. The hotel didn’t really cook any fresh foods for you. I found a lot of stuff quite friendly and the hotel was very clean. The biggest letdown of the holiday was the animation team who completely alienated anyone that didn’t speak French. There only one person who spoke to us but I believe he might have been from another teamso if you are English and you’ve got small children, I’d just make sure you have have some activities planned. it was a lovely holiday, but I am a little bit disappointed in this hotel.