Do not stay at this hotel (Aqua Vista, or any of the sister hotels Aqua Blu, Beach Albatross) for any reason. Please stay somewhere else and do not give the Pickalbatros hotel group one cent of your hard earned money. We are just back from a week long stay that was a complete travel disaster and nightmare. The good reviews of this hotel must have been written by: (a) hotel employees trying to keep their jobs; (b) travelers that have never stayed somewhere outside prison; (c) people who have never heard of (or experienced) value-for-money or quality; or (d) by the hotel marketing company employees posing as tourists to lure victims like you and I. What an absolute travel nightmare. We had to change the first hotel (Aqua Vista) after the first day! The animation team plays music that is so obnoxiously loud and inappropriate the environment. Simply awful. The swimming pools are all too cold to swim. The buffet food at restaurants with Aqua Vista were so terrible my girlfriend refused to eat. Inside the hotel grounds you are constantly (20-30 times a day) aggressively confronted to buy safari and submarine tours by abrasive and often confrontational sales agents. The food in Aqua Blu can at least be eaten. The HOTEL taxi, which advertises 20 minutes to downtown, took 1 hour and 20 minutes. The HOTEL taxi driver then stopped and led us into a dark shop where he and his colleagues tried to prevent us from leaving the store before buying something! We were verbally harassed by them as well. And this was the HOTEL taxi. In your room you can hear EVERYTHING that goes on in the building. The water in the shower goes from iceberg cold to screaming hot without warning. I have traveled all over the world and have NEVER felt so disappointed. The only person who made any sense in the hotel was the bag man, an upright man of substance, honesty, quality and integrity. Stay away from the tour deals offering discount prices to this hotel group. The pictures are true - the grounds look pretty. Everything else is a nightnmare...

I was travelling in November with two kids aged 9 and 10. The hotel premises and family rooms were clean and we had absolutely nothing to complain about those. Only the airoplanes were waking you up sometimes in the mornings. I think that during the holiday nice eating is one of the most important things. It didn't happen in this hotel. I thought that there were 4 different restaurants, but in fact all the restaurants were more or less the same. The premises vere connected and people were walking around, which made the dining unpeaceful. What was really annoying, was that they run out of glasses in the restaurants. Sometimes the driks were served and sometimes you had to go to the bar to get your drink. They also served wine in standard drinking glasses or even in cartonboard cups (if you didn't refuse to accept that). You also had to search for the forks and knives as well. It would have been easy to keep them available beside the plates, but they didn't. The hotel was also full of Russians who gathered enormous amounts of food to their plates without having any thought to eat that. It was disgusting to watch that (and other Russian style behaviour) all week. I think that the waiters were also a little bit too "friendly". I would have appreciated more professional behaviour. The food was average; nothing special. Please also note that heated pool doesn't mean the same everywhere. Our kids found the hotel pools too cold. There was only one small really heated pool in the neighbouring hotel. Because the pool heating and and functioning of the restaurant services are so big part of the holiday, I wouldn't go back to that hotel again.

The weather was great better than we thought it would be. We were the only English there and felt we should not be there. Hotel nice and clean but food is very bland. Plenty of sun beds round pool but quite a track to beach. The beach was very busy shared by other hotels, but we went in afternoons and managed to get sun beds ok. Went to the Marina one night which was very nice. We went with the hotel shuttle bus which dropped us of in town which was very hectic. We found the Marina ok and it was worth the hassle getting there.We heard the Titanic hotel was very good more English there.

Really great hotel - personnel very welcoming and sympathic especially with the young children.
fantastic swimming pool. Animation is really great for french speakers, you can never be bored.
food war really good and we had the choice in four restaurants. The only annoying thing was the people from the spa who were always trying to sell you spa treatments but after you tell them you are not interested they let you.
aiport is also nearby so they are some planes landing while sunbathing but it didn't annoy me that much.
i would certainly go there again if i ever plan ome holidays in this location