Iberostar Selection Albufera Playa All Inclusive

Lovely hotel. Great refurbishment. Very well maintained. Rooms are modern, clean & reasonable size. Emailed before to ask for rooms together with other family members. Friendly staff. Buffet food very good. Great selection. Different theme every night. Restaurants & facilities shared with Albufera Park hotel (attached). Plenty of sun loungers & space to sit by pools. Lots of parasols. Hotel didn’t feel too busy or crowded in Easter holidays. We loved the roof top pool. There is one that anyone can use. Would recommend this hotel Albufera Playa rather than Albufera Park for adults, teens & older children. Can also use all facilities at Albufera Park including kids pools but these were much busier. Regular day and evening entertainment. Very close to a lovely beach. Only negatives were that the pools were extremely cold. Impossible to use for long despite temp of 27 degrees outside. Nice to sit by but too cold to swim. Would recommend booking themed restaurants straight away. We didn’t & by our first evening, all were fully booked for our short break there. So didn’t get to experience them.

I had such a great time here. The place is amazing , very nice decorated. The food was good too . But the thing that impressed me the most was the staff , they were incredibly polite and friendly. Big shout out to Andrei he is a 10/10. Such a hardworking guy, he was dancing, acting and presenting Bingo game. Overall very good time I had in here .

We stayed in May, still here in this moment. The hotel is great but the most important it’s its staff who is just amazing. The greatest entertainment was during Bingo shows, provided by a great actor and mc - Andrei! Thanks for making our stay nicest!

We were really impressed with this hotel, great location, entertainment, food, drinks & beautiful beach it really doe have it all. Thank u keep up the good work! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Excellent service, our server Suzi was very attentive and catered to our every need, very impressed. Thank you Suzi 😊.

Really enjoyable stay at this beautifully maintained hotel. All staff were friendly and helpful, particularly Sofia in the bars. Food was excellent, both in the buffet and the a la cartes. We ate in the Greek and Mexican and service was great in both also. You can book these via the app, at the start of our 5 night stay I could only get availability at the Mexican. However I mentioned this to reception and around one hour later had an email confirming a booking at the Greek also. Loads of pools which are shared with the albufera park. Feels like the two hotels are one as all of the facilities are shared. Our favourite place was the rooftop pool, which had a beach club vibe. Pools were cold in April, but i still managed a dip. Thanks for a lovely stay, I hope to return one day!

Espresso Martinis by Oscar are amazing! The staff is really nice and helpful! Fun place to be :) The hotel is so pretty and stylish! The staff goes the extra mile for you! All the drinks are prepared with „orginal“ liquors, no continental drinks!

Fantastic!!! We deffo coming back again! Thanks so much Nieve & J Carlos (Dom Juan) from Greek restaurant tonight! They made our night much truly nice people! Dani from entertainment he is so amazing with our kids and very polite we can tell he loves what he does!

We stayed in Iberostar Selection Albufera Playa for 10 days in a 'quiet' Garden View room. Playa and Park are shared ; the only difference being the room. The resort was 'fully renovated' and opened June 2023, we stayed in July 2023 and 95% of the work seemed to be done. There were no workers left. Not everything was of course renovated, see detailed review below. Since these places are shared I would say don't come as couples without kids. These resorts are completely kids oriented and is loaded with families. Check-in & Check-out was pleasant and quick. The Room was ok-size at 27m2 for 2 adults and 1 child. We had room #7351. It included kettle, safe with code, little fridge. Beds 8/10: The sofa bed was easy to unfold and stable, and the mattress was good to sleep on, even for an adult. The mattresses on the double bed were ok (8/10). on the hard side with springs inside. Pillows were also long and good to sleep on. Duvets also fine, not to thick/thin. There are 3 blinking red lights on the smoke alarm, we needed to cover those for the nights otherwise it's to bright. Same goes for light on TV, but TV you can simply unplug the power from. Airco 9/10 worked fine, there were 3 settings and also an eco setting for the night. Airco was a good low sound volume for the night. No mosquitos in the room. Bathroom 7/10 was a good size, toilet is inside bathroom unfortunately. Not great space around the sink, but there was plenty of space above the toilet for toiletries. Some of the things were looking fine and clean, other things like the shower head was rusty and old (not renovated). Cleaning 8/10 Overall room cleaning and resort cleaning was very good; every day cleaners came in the morning and cleaned quickly but efficiently the room. Everyday new towels (also when not put on the floor). There are constantly people around trying to clean up stuff, but of course if you have 200 people working and 2000 people staying, you cannot do it 100% well enough. One day at the kids pool there was at 3 different places child poop on the tiles outside of the pool. We noticed several Iberostar staff people, but after waiting 15 minutes nothing happened. We found a managed who understood the seriousness of it and 15 minutes later there was someone to come and clean it up. The bad thing is that we ourselves needed to put yellow warning sings around the poops, and we needed to ask several people and a manager to clean it. also when it was cleaned it was just only swept and after that they didn't use any anti bacterial spray or anything. If the staff would have handled this differently, i would have rated cleaning 10/10. PS: It's ofcourse acceptable there is child poop now and then, that happens when you have kids. It's the situation the staff did not do anything about it. Also the resort has laundry facilities but no washing powders. Balcony & views 8/10: Big enough balcony to chill on, nice view on the gardens and partly seaview. Sound(proof) 2/10: Absolutel