Ria Park Hotel & Spa

Absolutely fantastic place to stay. Super clean, amazing service, great pools and food. Brilliant. Definintely going back!

Ria Park Hotel & Spa was a great choice for us. It had all the facilities we needed as a young family and was literally a short walk away from the beach which was one of the main reasons we booked with Ria. A special mention also for Ria kids club for keeping our son well entertained. Would happily recommend Ria, their staff were also very helpful and friendly. Thank you.

This was our fifth visit to this hotel since our first in 2004. It is consistently good with, in our experience, friendly staff. A very clean hotel with great choice at breakfast (there is no “egg station” but if you’d like freshly cooked eggs or an omelette just ask). The location is excellent for access to the beach, restaurants and the Val de Lobo estate.

Spent 7 days here and was happy to leave to be honest. We had high hopes having arrived from the Hilton Vilamoura where we had 5 lovely days in a hotel where the staff and general atmosphere was/were a perfect complement to the fine facilities. More about that in a separate review. On arrival at Ria Park, we encountered three staff behind the counter chatting among themselves. We were the only ones waiting to be checked in. The three staff continued to chat before one of them turned to see us without acknowledgment and then turned back to the other two with a gesture as though it was someone else’s turn to check us in. Eventually one came to the counter and without greeting or even looking at us just said ‘Passports?’ Everything was quite efficient but oddly cold to say the least. When we got to the room, it was a twin. We had booked a double. So went back downstairs and said we’d like a double as that was what we had booked. The staff member said that we had booked a twin and the all their rooms were twins. After I produced evidence of our booking of a double they then turned to a colleague to consult and then turned back to say again that “all our rooms are the same”. There was another conversation behind the counter and the staff member returned to say ‘Ok, we will get housekeeping to make the bed up as one’. This turned out to be a perfectly adequate solution which left us thinking as to why this had not been suggested three minutes earlier. There was no apology. The opposite in fact. We were subjected to near eye- rolling, unveiled and obvious disdain. The seven days turned out to be fine. Pool area was ok. Bed very comfortable. Facilities and room dated but fine. Small TV screen. Breakfast quite good but the breakfast room staff, with the exception of the always pleasant and helpful Marta, looked a bit listless. Checkout was clinical as the whole week had been. No inquiry as to whether we had enjoyed our stay. Nothing. An unsmiling parting. At best, this is hotel with mostly four star facilities and an efficient if box-ticking service.

Stayed 3 nights. Lovely location near the beach (10 mins walk) where the hotel has its own loungers see picture. The hotel is spotless and the staff are very helpful and lovely. We didn’t eat other than breakfast so can’t comment on the restaurants. Breakfast was good if not excellent (I don’t like this increasing trend in hotels to getting your own coffee at a machine). It’s definitely a bit dated in terms of when it was built, though a lovely pool. Massive landings!

This place was beautiful and the staff were amazing!