Hotel Sol Algarve

Just spent 4 nights at Hotel Sol Algarve…let me say this…it’s a two star hotel…I get that, but they been 5 stars in their friendliness and service. Yes, the rooms are basic…no refrigerator, water kettle…but the beds are comfortable and things are clean. My room faced the local road which gets very, very busy until late at night…a bit challenging to keep the door to balcony open…and watching the huge buses from the train station make the turn is enter In and of itself. If you want quiet, see if you can get a room that overlooks the inner courtyard…no views to speak of but quiet. The breakfast €7 per person per night is well worth it…I was suitably impressed…the woman taking care of the breakfast area was dedicated. The hotel is well situated in Faro…very easy walk to the old town and to the train station. One of the night desk guys even gave me a good recommendation for a restaurant that serves good Piri Piri chicken. This is a basic hotel but with really outstanding service…oh…their English is quite good. I highly recommend the hotel if Faro is in your travel plans!

I booked a room at this hotel for only two nights. It is very close to the town center and the train station. The people at the front desks are very friendly and they are there for 24/7 which seems hard to come across in Portugal. It is a budget hotel and rooms are clean, wifi works well and the shower is great.

Very clean and comfortable hotel in a great location. Faro is well worth a visit and Hotel Sol Algarve is a great base to explore from. Staff lovely and helpful. Good value destination that gets the basics right.

I booked a 5 night stay at Hotel Sol, the cost was about €250. Upon arriving at the reception, the person on duty was welcoming. The hotel is very close to both the train and bus station 🚉, so it was a 5 minute walk, when I got off the bus from the airport. Regarding the room I stayed in,a top floor room with a small balcony. The rooms are very small, the pictures make it look bigger but believe me, the rooms are tiny. There is very little room to move around the bed. The bathroom 🚻 is tiny also. The room was clean, however. Regarding functionality,there are very few 🔌 sockets, and the ones there are are in bad locations. The light switches by the bed 🛌 are too high to reach from bed. This hotel is EXTREMELY noisy. There is little or no soundproofing. You hear every noise. The elevators 🛗 constantly clanging, especially at night. You can hear some kind of humming noise all the time. The corridor flooring is tiled, so you hear footsteps that wake you up. The door on my room had gaps, so light from the corridor came through at night. This hotel 🏨 needs to be refurbished it's very dated. I know it's only a 2-star 🌟 hotel, but I never got one night. Good sleep 😴 during my stay. I'm sorry to be negative, but that's just my experience. I wouldn't visit this hotel again, and I wouldn't recommend it either,even though it was cheap. I've given 2 stars because the room was clean and good location. I've deducted 3 stars because of the noise and lack of a relaxing stay.

A little noisy with cramped rooms. Check in want until 4pm and they made sure we didn't get in any earlier. Still perfectly friendly and did let us store our bags. Not terrible, but I wouldn't stay again nor recommend if your budget can go a little higher.

We booked a stay in Faro, but due to a mistake the dates changed. I noticed it immediately and called the hotel within seconds. Instead of helping, Cindy showed no understanding at all. She even accepted the booking while I was on the phone and then told me, “Now it has come through to us.” When I explained we were flying home the next day, she still insisted the only option was a stay the following week – which made no sense. No attempt to solve the issue, no empathy, no flexibility. Mistakes can happen, but how a hotel handles them says everything. And here the answer was clear: zero service, zero humanity. If this is how they deal with guests, I would never risk staying here. Stay away.

Basic hotel that is walkable (5 minutes) to/from Faro Train and Bus Station. Also close to the old town, eateries and if you can walk further you can reach the shopping area Forum Algarve. We had a comfortable 3 single bed bedroom with a veranda. There’s some view of the churchbell in the veranda. There’s no microwave or coffeemaker in the room. No breakfast is included but they offer one for additional fee. Bath gel and shampoo in small bottles were provided which was good enough for our 2 nights stay. Friendly people at the reception area and Nuno stands out.

The assistant director asked us to leave a complaint online if we wanted any resolution, so obliging: there was no water for two days. We spoke to multiple staff members who became increasingly less understanding about the inconvenience this caused. No resolution was found. ||This is without reference to lack of wifi, dead bug and blood on the ceiling, the ability to hear every other occupant of the hotel do anytbing.

Positive; - friendly and very helpful staff -clean room and bathroom - great location (near train station) - comfortable beds and pillows Negative: - No complimentary take-away sandwich + juice for early leavers - before 06:30 am as advertised on website. Left the hotel to catch a 7am train with empty stomach. - our room had a strange noise all night like we had an elevator inside of it,really strange and annoying, didn't slept very much - no hot water, the best we got was a almost luke warm bath. Advise: - Please: since there's no 24h bar service, put some coffee and vending machines with food and water so guests could have something to eat or drink at any time.

They ask you to leave your room key at front desk every time you leave the building. What?! So, basically anyone can just walk in and point to one of the room keys hanging visibly behind the front desk and say that's me and then unlock my hotel room and drug me and remove my kidneys and sell them on the organ market? Ok, I've seen too many movies. But, I don't understand the logic. And frankly, it doesn't seem safe at all. The front desk lady was terrible at selling Faro as a tourist destination. We asked for recommendations on what to do at one night's stay. She randomly circled places on a xerox copy of a map with illegible print and mumbling something about "it's a small place, really not that much" and then saying something about what I assume was a Synagogue, "here is something Jewish, I don't know what it is". The room was so noisy at night, I could hear people walking in and out, talking loudly on the street, crazy dogs barking. The bathroom light switch is connected to the fan, so if your room partner needs to use the bathroom at night, expect the sound of an army helicopter waking you up from your sweet sleep. The shower was ice cold, was advised that they could not turn on the heat until 7AM. When I came back to the hotel at night I asked to buy a bottle of water. The night porter just stared at me. I stared back and tried in Portugese...Agua? Botella? Doing a drinking water motion, gluck gluck gluck....the man stared for a moment and then responded with a perfect English accent: Yes, I do know what water is. Are you a guest here? Gosh, just very awkward mannerisms a la Fawlty Towers. The immediate area is not the prettiest, but the location is good as it is just a quick walk to the water front area. It is also walking distance to the train station and manageable even with suitcases. Breakfast didn't have much to choose from, the toast is not on the buffet table, you have to ask for it, which was first time I had seen that.