Iberostar Selection Albufera Playa - All Inclusive

Everything you need for a family holiday. Lovely food, clean, wonderful staff. On the beach - only snag Is you have to pay for beds. Lots for kids 2 playgrounds, kids club. Kids splash pool which is amazing for under 10s and is even advertised. Enjoy

We were there for 10 days on an all inclusive basis. Really nice hotel, well maintained and efficiently run by the Iberostar Team. Very friendly staff - nothing too much bother. Entertainment good, though a bit monotonous (similar stuff each night - singing/dancing). There is a quieter area away from the main stage where a fabulous Spanish guitarist played (and another night a Spanish vocalist) - both really lovely. However, Iberostar has chosen to situate them right next to a busy toilet area (!!!) where everyone had to walk in front of them to get to the loo - disheartening for the artist and extremely irritating for the audience. If you don't mind not speaking to another English person for your entire holiday, then you will love this hotel. The majority of guests are German. I understand there was another English couple but we never met them.

Would truly struggle to fault this hotel. It was a little pricey but the facilities were lovely, nice pools, fantastic food. I'm not generally a fan of buffets, but the quality and choice was great. Would definitely recommend and will definitely be returning.

We spent our summer vacation in July and must say is very good hotel, modern and clean, food were perfect but was difficult to find the place outside the restaurant - it's better to come 20 min before opening (dinner time). Everything for kids were great! But programme after 21-23h was so so loud that we could not sleep never before the midnight :-( sea view was soooo long away from the beach. Sea was good and beach too but there is not sunbeds if you don't have a reservation for these. We went to Esperanza Hotel playa most of the time because of the more space on the beach. Was windy every afternoon an lots of waves. Anyway - we will stay again here if music would not be so loud.

excellent...had nice time..will definitely go again. Food was the only issue i had as being a vegetarian and no indian cuisine available.

Have just come back from a three day half board stay at this hotel. The hotel on the whole is nice and in a good setting close to the beach. The food was good and there was plenty of choice. The hotel is predominately German, but all the guests seemed pretty relaxed and friendly. If you like to watch tv in English though there is only one Chanel bbc world all the others are in Spanish and German, I have stopped at many international hotels before and this is the one with least choice of tv. We had a ground floor room with pool facing garden view. This room did become a bit noisey in the morning with the noise from above and especially the lift going up and down with other people going to breakfast. The aircon in the room was useless but it was only may so not so hot but would not like to be there in the height of the summer. Lastly if you like to use wifi on a tablet or smart phone the free wifi is only for 30mins every 24 hrs and it does nt refresh the next day it actually knows when you last used it so if you went off line at 10pm you have to wait til 10pm the following day to use it again and the 30mins is 30mins straight you can't keep going in and out. On the whole the hotel was good for what we wanted but I think any longer than 3 days I would have started to get annoyed a bit. The staff are all very friendly and the food was good too with a nice setting and good swimming pools. I would recommend thus hotel but I wanted to share my experience too.

Not a good view. Our view was the carpark. But clean hotel and great room. Beds are hard so stiff back. Staff friendly but they mucked up on our beauty salon appointment and only booked me in and not my partner so it didn't go ahead.. Cocktails are made using cheap ingredients but charge a fortune. But overall the hotel had a lot of great things.

Wonderful hotel but not many British. Some parents allowed children to handle food in restaurant, otherwise everything else was very good.

We stayed at the hotel for 7 nights in August,and the experience was disappointing.We booked 2 rooms,and our rooms were next to each other.The rooms were poorly finished,with paint falling off the ceiling and walls water-stained.The worst part was that the rooms were not sound proof at all,so we heard everything happening in the other room.There were also many young children,so it was noisy everywhere,never a moment of quietness.The beach was clean,and water was shallow and warm,which was very good for small children.Hotel beach was right next to the public part,so not much exclusivity,and chairs/unbrellas did not belong to the hotel,would need to pay to use them.We took the all inclusive option,which was a rip off.The buffet lunches and dinners did not offer many dishes,and many were the same day after day.Sea food dishes were of better quality if you went to dinner early,as it happened to us,once their tiger prawns ran out,they replaced them with smaller and less fresh ones.Hot meat options were limited,too.The drink selections were small,both at meals or in the bar,most of the good cocktails were to be charged extra,or completely not included at all.Plus,there was no complimentary bottled water in the room,even as all inclusive guests,we were told to pay extra for it in the rooms!The staff in the bar and restaurant were very nice and friendly,and the service was good.Overall,it was no way a 4 star experience,and the bigger mistake was to take the all inclusive option.

Hello, we went on our family vacation to Mallorca Spain. We decided to stay at the Iberostar Albufera Playa resort based on other traveler reviews. The hotel met our expectation from a amenities, facility, cleanliness and food. The staff members were very nice and polite. We had a great experience in Mallorca. I would only mention two downsides: paying for the safe in your room, reservations for dinners at the second restaurant near the beach. We enjoyed our experience with the half board and it saves you a bit of money but we also like going out and trying different restaurants at lunch. the beaches were fantastic and water was perfectly clear.