Hotel Bahia Princess

We stayed here for 10 days and we could not fault the hotel. The staff were amazing and could not do enough for us. The hotel was spotless and our room was cleaned everyday. The food was gor everybody's taste lots of choice.

I describe myself as a well travelled person but this hotel failed from the start, it was my 70th birthday and retirement holiday for my wife, children,grand children and great grand child.we approached the reception on arrival and spoke to Eva a young lady whether we could upgrade to all inclusive for the 11 of us,she seemed excited at this and requested I come back in an hour and she would speak to the manager,I returned and spoke to the manager Arnauld who was not really receptive ant told us it was 37 euro to up grade, I asked the cost of the children, his answer was any over 11 years was the same price! I thought about this and replied " so they are entitled to alcohol then?" His attitude then was unhelpful and told us there were no upgrades. The rooms were very good, clean and maintained, pity the staff were not most were unhelpful and it seemed each area in the hotel was run separate I.e I asked the restaurant waiter the time the main bar opened he told me to asked them myself as he was a waiter not from the bar, you could not get tea or coffee at the evening meal and only wine and beer was served from the resturant until the bar opened if you could find that out. The food was average and if you wanted something special you had to go outside the hotel.The hotel was sexist as to clothing worn at evening meal men had to were long trousers were women wore whatever they thought, I am no prude but you cannot have double standards, it meant Chang again after evening meal if you wanted to wear shorts, dress shorts should have been acceptable as they are in most top hotels. The hotel staff throughout were mostly unhelpful and lacked happiness but not all of them. The pools were clean. To summarise without going to the flights that ere awful supplied by TUi the Dreamliner out was super but the return supplied bu Smart Link was an up graded Lancaster bomber or it felt like it, I am by no means tall but my knees were under my chin ( exaggerated) but uncomfortable. This hotel was old fashioned , and out of date with the times and I would never return it ruined what should have been a celebration. PS a complaint went to TUi. Barry Clement 1sr September 2019 ,

We booked last minute to stay here and wasn’t disappointed. When we arrived the coach dropped us straight at the door. We went straight to reception and a bell boy took our luggage straight to our room. Our room number was room 438 this was on the top floor. The room was lovely and spacious with plenty of storage space, a mini fridge, hairdryer and a safe. When you went out onto the veranda you could literally walk from one side what was a view of the mountains and all the beautiful hotels/apartments to the other side this being a see view, it was beautiful. We went dawn for our evening meal and we were shown to our table by one of the many waiters who as soon as we sat asked us what we would like to drink. The buffet is on a help yourself basses, all though sometimes this felt repetitive there was always something for everyone. Me personally liked soup a main and a pudding that was enough for me but of course you could go up as many times as you wanted. After eating with it being our first night we thought we would stay in our hotel and see what the entertainment was like. The entertainment was ok. We paid 3.70€ for a pint of beer/lager. They do have happy hours of an afternoon but they are in different bars around the hotel, personally I thought happy hour should be the same price at the same time at all the bars around the hotel, again this is just my personal opinion. Altogether there were 4 pools in the hotel, two at the bottom, 1 for everyone this also had a bar and one for children, this had a small play area. Then the two on the top level, these were both used by adults and children, the piano bar was smack in the middle of both, happy hour for this bar was 1pm till 2pm. Plenty of sun beds to go around ether you liked to lay by the pool or just out in the sun, the choice is yourself. You could have lunch in the hotel if you wanted. We were breakfast and evening meal. This hotel is very disabled friendly with plenty of lifts and ramps. We went off the hotel site most evenings to to a local karaoke and sports bar round the corner, just for a change. If I wanted to complain about anything it would have to be the air conditioning, it terrible, even eating in the main restaurant there seemed to be no cool air. We were told by one of the other guests that the hotel is being updated next year so please please put this at the top of your list. Entertainment for the kids could be a bit better too. Would we go back? Yes we would the staff are lovely and so helpful, these people really do deserve every penny they get .