Alegria Barranco

We stayed at Hotel Alegria Barranco for eleven nights in February. At first it seemed promising but at nine o’ clock in the evening the noise began: There’s a sports bar on the ground floor and ‘till 30 minutes past midnight every night of our stay there were relentless party noises, screaming and karaoke music. Our room was right above the party. I’ve stayed in every continent, but I’ve never experienced anything like this. I can’t award this hotel any stars as a result. Hotel Alegria Barranco also advertises that they send a car to pick their guests up from the airport but they didn’t and when we asked about it it became abundantly clear they never have done such a thing and no-one working at the hotel knew about such an offer. They also charged us one euro for simply weighing our bags, which I know is not a hefty price but managed to add insult to injury.

Spotless apartment and building. Spacious and well equipped. Pool area is small and pool nest suites for a dip rather than kids playing. Location is right in the centre so easy to walk everywhere. Staff very helpful and polite. Definitely recommend for couples and older children. We had a great stay.

Worried after reading negative reviews. Pleasantly surprised: spacious living area, kettle, toaster, large fridge freezer, TV. Small balcony. Our room was quiet. Arrived on Monday, clean towels and sachet toiletries. Wednesday clean towels. Friday apartment cleaned throughout, fresh bedding, towels, and sachet toiletries, hairdryer. Negative: Top shower head didn't work, the other leaked, hand held, not a huge problem. Never used the pool. it looked okay. Lovely rooftop top solarium, about 10 sunloungers excellent. Check-in was easy, pleasant, helpful staff, no deposit asked for. At check-out there is somewhere to leave luggage, also machine to weigh your luggage about a euro. It's a great idea. Supermarket next door everything you need, walking distance to restaurants, shops and beach. Would recommend.

I started this review on a 1* then thought deeply about our experience. Hence my final rating. Clearly this hotel has been badly burned from bad experiences with certain past guests. We normally book the more premium hotels, yet this was a last minute budget break and we booked without checking the reviews beforehand!!! I was concerned about reports of damage throughout the apartments and of the €100 pp deposit for damages. Sadly it is clear that All guests are “tarred with the same brush”. We arrived 8/2 and checked in by “Judith Chalmers - Yet without the Chalmers”. We paid the required €200 and headed to the room. Armed with the reviews, I was sadly on the defensive. Rather than immediately see the relaxing positives, I was looking for things that we could be blamed for. I then forensically examined the apartment and took countless photos. In one word horrific. Dents Fridge Door - Shelf under safe Damaged - Various marks - dents on wall throughout - Towel rail hanging from wall - Bathroom bin hinge broken - Curtain rail hanging from the wall - Door handle in bathroom very loose. Armed with the photos, I then immediately visited reception and showed them to the receptionist. The reason for my higher rating - 1). Top Floor with sun available all day - no fighting for sun beds as each of the rooms has its own sun beds immediately outside the rooms. This was ideal. Drinking drinks bought cheaply from the supermarket NEXT door to the hotel from your room fridge and laying in the sun immediately in front of your room is brilliant. 2). Everything worked. The TV even had all the UK channels on it. The apartment was well equipped and everything you could need was there. 3). Location - Close to the front. Good choice of local bars, restaurants etc. In summary - Actually a nice hotel. The hotel should direct the deposit requirement on the “party groups” and not treat guests with contempt. I could have charged the hotel €50 and fixed most of the faults in our room with materials from the shop over the road !! Would I stay here again ?? I probably would !

Was dreading going here due to reviews. But it was fine. We had an apartment with fridge, hob, microwave etc. where we had breakfast everyday. Room was clean. Couple lights didn’t work and couldn’t get main shower head to work but holding hand one was fine. Little noisy as was on the road but would return it’s a 2 star so don’t expect luxury. Got deposit back on check out easy.

Room 116 No view, no sun, you could touch the building next door from our ‘outdoor sun lounger area’ Made to believe that they have swim up rooms when in fact the tiny swim pool is outside 5 rooms which makes it difficult for the other 300 and odd guest to take a dip as it’s seems like your invading privacy. My room stunk like drains and sewers. The room was not cleaned or towels changed in 4 night stay. The place was tatty, the floor boards lifted and soft and soggy from some sort of leak. The walls stained and marked, squatted mosquitos still on walls, stains on sofa and curtains, poo stains and bodily fluid stains ?? Wee stains on mattress when I removed mattress protector. The location was very good, a close walk to the beach and ***** and town to shop. I believe you could get better for the money it cost and the 100 euro per person which they did return when we left. Definitely too expensive for what you get. Plus the staff didn’t smile once, not very friendly