Auramar Beach Resort

Food is poor all inclusive has alot of restrictions you have to give 150 euro at desk which is not told about the area is nice this is just a budget hotel if you can get it on the cheap but they don't make it it's such a low quality hotel

The most inaccessible complexes I’ve ever stayed in. My fitness and mobility are not great right now but this place tested my poor agility to it’s limit! To start with, there’s a €100 security deposit on arrival. I've stayed in many places and this is the first time we've been expected to pay this much! It’s a lot of money at the start of your holiday. When we were able to get into our room, it was accessed by a seedily lit, corrugated iron roofed corridor which passed the complex shop and the ‘indoor swimming pool‘ but I'll come to that later, lay our room A104. On opening the door, our first impression was of somewhat relief. We'd read the reviews and thought they were ‘obviously’ wrong. Plus, we could smell the bleach and thought this was a good cleanliness point. Once we'd unpacked and started to look at the room, we noticed the there were cracked, loose and broken floor tiles and an outdated bathroom, from somewhere back in the early 80’s! But we decided that we could deal with that. Later, as it was blowing a gale and raining torrentially. I noticed that balcony door was flapping. When I went to secure it, the latch worked in reverse, so turning the handle downwards but it wasn’t very secure, and so I put the chain on too. When next-door visitors slammed their balcony door with regular vigour, our door would bounce open, and it would rattle when the wind blew. We’ve been burgled in Portugal before so I barricaded the door until we could report it to reception. Still waiting... Some of the interior design features like the tatty, unfinished plywood squares/diamonds on the bathroom door, was not what we expected. Nor were the panelled wardrobe doors that were archaic. Or the ‘wonky’ fridge that was put in a hole in the wall, was just weird! The beds were rather firm but clean and warm. The air con didn’t work very well. We had to stand on a chair to open the vent to allow air out, and the noise it made was deafening. It didn’t really get warm just warmer as the weather was awful when we were there. We reported it and maintenance came out, but we still had to get on a chair to make it work! Our view was of the back of ‘D’ block and a skip full of black bin bags. Not what expected but it wasn’t too horrible. If, like me, you have dodgy knees, or your balance isn’t what it could be, this place could be a struggle. There is a long corridor that leads from reception down to the dining room with around 24 steps that brings you out to a dark and narrow reception area which is rather unwelcoming and becomes of a bottle-neck at peak times. The food was fairly average for all inclusive, and if all failed, there was always salad and chips! The pool bar and snack bar were run efficiently, with pretty much the same daily food menu. There were in total 74 steps down to pool area from the indoor. There is an expansive ramp down to the pool, but there are still steps to tackle before you get to the ramp. Incidentally, the indoor pool was less than expected. It was not deep but not very big. It wasn’t big enough for swimming, just floating, as long as there weren’t lots of children or inflatable crocodiles in there! Whilst we were there, the evening entertainment and bar were run from the café in reception. It was totally inadequate. There weren’t enough places to sit and it was really loud. The bar team, however, were extraordinary. Two of the young women were natural entertainers and had fantastic voices. There was an alarm that went off regularly on the corridor that one can only assume was a fire alarm. However, no-one ever came to explain, apologise or advise. To the people upstairs who felt the need to drag your furniture around until 2.30 most mornings, 🤬. Totally unfair!

I hadn't been here for two years, and honestly, between the exorbitant price increase, the terrible food, and the all-inclusive with very little variety, the hotel is going from bad to worse. It used to be a pleasure to come here, but now it's not worth it.