Helpyouandhelpme
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We had been looking for some time at a possible stay here, having enjoyed the Portobay Cliff Bay in Madeira many times, and so decided on a five day stay with friends. The hotel is in a quiet and safe area, away from the main centre but close enough to walk to and to nearby Metro or bus stops. The facilities are good, including the indoor pool and the rooftop bar, the staff are very friendly, the hotel is very clean and nicely furnished, and the breakfast was very good (with one exception when staff failed to timely replenish buffet items which had become very depleted, seemingly by a large group with an early departure). Rooms were comfortable, though the bath robes are not of high quality, room cleaning could be a bit hit and miss, and having a sliding door to the bathroom was not ideal. The main downside, however, was that we were not allocated a room location according to our advance (four months) request, despite being a gold prestige card holder, and were instead given a room facing the opposite way to what we had asked for, in the direction of local building work, and on the first floor just above the restaurant’s noisy (at times) outside eating area. We were informed on arrival that the hotel was full, and that there were no rooms available which matched our request. We raised this in a mid-stay questionnaire from the hotel, at which point they asked that we contact reception to see what could be done. We were grateful for this offer but we did not have time during our busy break to go through a change. This was a disappointing experience and I did wonder if we had been disadvantaged by booking through a third party (BA Holidays, simply to use Avios points) instead of directly with the hotel group itself.