Vila Recife Hotel

"i’ll give an honestly review of the hotel. location- so so good 3 min walk to beach and 5 min walk to the old town square, also the marina witch has nice restaurants and boat trips is just is just like 5 minutes in uber we done the boat trip were they show us the famous caves and private beach’s and dolphins witch was great was only like 80€ altogether for 2 people. just a tip if your coming from the airport do NOT get a normal taxi order on UBER from uber app because old town is like a 40 minutes drive or up to an hour based on traffic we got charged €73 by using a normal taxi when uber charges a set fee off around €40 don’t get caught out on this use the uber app for all your taxi journeys. food- we did not try the breakfast there we just went accross the road to eddys sports bar who’s food is amazing and also tried other places in old town, alfredo’s and tequila loco nicest restaurants we went to by far and also central station in the square. Staff- wore very friendly the hole time , also the cleaners , room was cleaned every time we put clean sign on door Deposit- they ask for 100€ deposit upfront from card only, we checked out at 8am saturday and deposit was already back in revolut account by 4:30pm. Rooms- are dated and beds wore grand , small balcony room for one person on there but there fine , only issue was water kept coming from air con every time we had it on so caused massive puddles every time we had it on we did say it to staff on first day and they said they will sort it but nothing came of it but we did only ask once as we wore not overly bothered to keep asking . Pool- area looked a little small we just avoided and went the beach and chilled in loungers there but i’m sure if ur up in the morning you’d get a lounger at the pool we just preferred trying the beach. noise- we stayed on same floor as the reception and the hole night does be quiet we only heard noise in the morning when cleaners wore going around witches you’d expect . Outside- right out side the hotel is a big spar shop and pharmacy and also sports bar called eddys and a bar called tonic witch wore so good to have eddys have a take away part were u can have pizzas and burgers and take them away as late as 2am . the location and what’s around this hotel really does make up for what it lacks but for the price you pay especially with how expensive albufera is , it’s a grand place to stay especially when you use the room for mostly just sleeping, outside area of the hotel were breakfast is had and also where you can buy drinks or ice cream or snacks is a nice area to chill also. seen a lot of over exaggerated reviews before i came to this hotel so i decided to give a full proper honest one. Would i stay in this hotel again - Yes if i was doing another trip on short notice on a budget definitely, it’s a grand hotel to stay in regardless to be honest. Any questions if your staying ?"

"Fantastic hotel in a great location. We had a nice room with a view. Cocktails are delish and reasonably priced compared to other bars. Would stay again."

"Vila Recife is in a fantastic location in the old town and good value for money overall. I would say that this hotel is quite basic but generally clean and a decent place to stay. There was a few inconveniences with our stay: 1) When coming to clean our room, my friends and I were having a nap so I decided to gather up our towels and ask housekeeping if we could skip the room being cleaned and just have clean towels. The housekeeping lady, after being told many times and even showing her the three of us there, would only provide 2 big towels ? Obviously we needed 3 big towels because there were three of us. It was a bit of an awkward conversation where we were going back and forth asking for a third towel to which she said ‘big towels finished ?’ - not sure about that. However the lady on the reception sorted this after I made a complaint. 2) Interesting smell on level 0 (pool level) … it was very unpleasant almost like a smell of drains. 3) The pool area was small (hard to get sunbed), no umbrellas for shade …. so I spent sometime on a broken sunbed. Please see attached photo haha! 4) Ladies reception toilets lock did not work - didn’t bother us but probably needs looking at. 5) There is no secure luggage room, only a luggage corridor which was fine in our experience. Regardless of this, the breakfast was basic but good enough, and most importantly the hotel was clean. One annoying thing was the fact there was only one physical key as opposed to key cards. I would stay here again if I needed a value for money hotel. The outside of the hotel looks quite nice and there is a nice courtyard at the front."