Sol e Praia - Lagos, Portugal 

This hotel is rotten. When we arrived at this hotel we were straight away not impressed , but we still were a small bit opitmistic. That soon changed after we received our keys & as we made our way to our room. There was this discusting smell which lingered throughout the hallways. We opened the door to our room & the smell was still there. The room was just rotten it was filthy it looked like it had never been cleaned ( the thoughts of it even send shivers down my spine) I was even afraid to sit on the bed in case we got eaten by ants or somethin. The room was also completly unsafe there was a back door into the room with a tiny lock which could be broken into by the weakest of people. The bathroom was the most discusting thing I've ever seen in my whole life, I actually felt while I stood there that a dead body was going to fall out of the bath tub. We couldn't even stay there we got our stuff & left. This description is not by no means an exaggeration, even ask the locals if you don't believe this comment

We were very impressed with the location of the hotel, as well as the roof top swimming pool. THIS HOTEL HAS NO SEA VIEW ROOMS IT IS ONLY POSSABLE TO SEE THE SEA IF ONE LEANS OUT OVER THE BALCONLY AND LOOKS TO THE LEFT PROBLEM 1/. The Sol e Praia are only a Residential establishment NOT a Hotel, so there is no where to eat except a breakfast room, at night we had to find 1 of 3 restraunts with only a poor photocopy of a map indicating the location of the eating establishments, we had booked and paid for half board PROBLEM 2/. the Sol e Praia is not on the map so one has to follow directions given in broken English to get onto the map. PROBLEM 3/. After retuning to the Sol e Praia we went to the bar, we were alone, the bar has more pillars than an underground car park, and there is only 1 bar man who is NOT a waiter and there were no drinks trays available - so two trips to the bar. The bar T.V. show Spanish, German, Portuguise as well as Sky News and BBC World News. No Euro Sport. PROBLEM 4/. At approx midnight the bar closes, we had been joined by 6 fellow trravellers who had booked in at 11pm with nothing to eat, as it was Sunday and all the local restraunts (the 3) had closed at 11pm. (the bar also closes between 9pm/10pm so the bar man can have his dinner). PROBLEM 5/. We were in room 420 when we went to our room the bed was soaking wet, with water dripping through the ceiling. "We have no spare rooms, we are full" was the responce and there is only the night reception man on duty after midnight. Atapprox 2am the night man found us spare mattresses and we slept on the floor of the balcony. Problem 6/. It appears that there is only 1 maintainance man and Monday is one of his days off, after 2pm we were given another room with a view of heating panels for a solor heating system. PROBLEM 7/. On our floor none of the fire doors closed without scraping the tiled foor, there is no soft furnishings on any of the corridors so every sound echoes also the corridor, the stairs are open wooden polished planks and are very hard so they also sound trhough out the hotel corridors, in attempting to close out the noise is how I found out the fire doors would not close. PROBLEM 8/. We were awoken on the Wednesday morning by the screams of 'Fire, Fire' it turned out to be a drunken nutter, but it conversation with the reception staff next day, on my question as to why it was a NONE SMOKING hotel, yet there were signs asking people not to smoke in bed. "clints do smoke in their rooms that is why we turn off the fire alarm, it used to keep going off all the time". We checked out within the hour.