Iberostar Waves Saidia

Fabulous hotel with some fabulous rooms with fabulous beachfront views! The hotel's included breakasts, lunches and dinners were also fabulously delicious! The hotel's 2 large, shallow pools were relaxing, and they looked especially fun for families with children. Luckily, the weather in the hotel region was perfect for swimming in pools or in the Mediterranean or hiking on the beach across from the hotel. Thanks to the really efficient, helpful and kind receptionists, housekeepers, restaurant workers and other members of the hotel's fabulous team

It was me and my two daughters. The pools and beach were a lot of fun. The resort is massive! They had a good activity for the children one of the nights. The buffet food was good, though it got overbearingly crowded during lunch. The resort was completely full, but we still had enough space outside to have a good time. There is many reasons why it was so affordable--a lot of corner cutting. They said do everything through the app, but even the staff coudn't figure out how to use it. Staff was often completely unavailable to help--for example, they would say "oh, I don't know why that's not working, come to the front office." Walk to the front office, and that person is gone, so they told me to wait, or go somewhere else. I got the runaround a few times. We couldn't get a speciality dinner (we were there a few nights). Finally gave up after getting the runaround and spending a lot of time trying to figure this out. Most staff don't know how to answer questions aside from their immediate job, and people who can answer questions are seldom available. Overall, my daugthers had a great time, and that is what is most important. It is cheap for a reason.

All activities only in Portuguese Too many mosquitos arround

The staff, accommodations, settings, cleanliness and communal restaurant continue to be a plus consistently as we stayed in 2013, 2014, 2022 and 2023. At times overcrowding was an issue. This last stay was marred by unacceptable construction noise on bloc 2, story 2. I had to speak to workers and at the desk that not even informing guests of this more than hour long din was just checked unacceptable.

Food the same every day no change . Breakfast stuff very slow to make one omelette long-standing