Hotel Portoconte
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Hotel Portoconte is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Porto Conte, offering a charming environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
As your “home away from home,” the hotel rooms offer air conditioning, and getting online is easy, with free wifi available.
Guests have access to 24 hour front desk, a concierge, and a rooftop terrace while staying at Hotel Portoconte. In addition, Porto Conte offers a pool and breakfast, which will help make your Porto Conte trip additionally gratifying. And, as an added convenience, there is free parking available to guests.
If you like Italian restaurants, Portoconte Hotel is conveniently located near Il Galeone.
Enjoy your stay in Porto Conte!
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Pros: space on the beach, peace and quiet for relaxation, good atmosphere.
Cons: slightly remote location, food not particularly refined, aircondition
We enjoyed the food, both choice and quality. The absolutely first class breakfast buffet is very commendable.
All the staff members are nice, Luigi the restaurant manager is keen to please and very good. I am sorry I cannot remember the name of the funny barman but he was great.
The staff were lovely.
Out of 3 receptionists we met, only 1 spoke satisfactory English. After we came to the hotel, we very pretty sure we were the only people that were not Italian – and the rest of guests were families with children and elderly people. Nobody our age without kids. And all the time there was this awful and loud disco music.
We booked through a website and we were supposed to pay when we arrived – the amount was given to me and I had the money ready. But what a surprise when the receptionist told us that we needed to pay almost 150 euro extra for compulsory sunbeds & umbrellas and some city tax. However, when we went to the beach, half of the umbrellas (the whole first row) were ‘Reserved’. We thought – we just paid a lot of money for it so we take whichever was available – wrong! For the ‘Reserved’ you need to pay extra charge which was 6 euro per day per person, what a clever way to make more money for nothing.
We took the hotel only with breakfast, as we like to go out during the day and do some sightseeing. Because of that, we were treated as worse guests – we didin’t have our own table at the restaurant and we had to go around every day as stupid looking for one. Once we took some table and some guest came and told us off, which was very embarrassing . After this incident, we went to the reception to say what happened to us – again – we were only bed & breakfast so we didn’t deserve a table even though we ate there every day! After further argument and when they saw we wouldn’t give up, they finally agreed to give us a table. We always take bed & breakfast anywhere we go and we were never treated this way!
As sometimes we stayed on the beach all day, we needed to eat something so we went to the bar. They had a lovely menu but when we started ordering the waiter said that the menu was not applicable and he could offer us 2 baguettes. And he brought them to show us – they were packed in plastic bags as just brought from a supermarket!!! So WHY the menu?!
The rooms were clean but the towels had holes and few times they forgot to give us enough fresh ones and we ended up using one. Also we saw some cockroaches in the hall.
The hotel was in the middle of nowhere (a bus to Alghero was every 2 hours – return ticket 2.5 euro, and a taxi from/to the airport is 30 euro) so if you don’t plan to get a car, it’s very hard to go anywhere. Thus, we saw in the reception an offer of a trip to go to Corsica for one day. We booked it through the reception and a coach was supposed to pick us up at 6.30am. We left the room and it turned out they closed us inside the hotel! We had to jump over the stairs to get at the front of the building! We finally went to the gate and it was closed!!! We tried to open it but no success. I went to the reception –the building was closed and there was nobody in the reception. I rang the bell for 10mins and rang them on the phone while my boyfriend went around the building to find somebody…. And nothing!!!! I was so angry I went to the gate and started hitting it and WOW somebody finally came and started giving me instructions in Italian how to open it. This was really enough for us. The incompetence of people working there is unbelievable. We were lucky that the coach was late as we would lose 150 euro we paid for this trip.
This hotel is clearly for Italian guests that pay for full board and want to stay on the beach all day listening to loud kinky music. They should also like to be attacked by people that suddenly appear on this private beach to sell stuff – sunglasses, clothes and others. And don’t worry, they will come to every sunbed and try to make you buy from them.
We really enjoyed Sardinia, but not this awful hotel for which we now know we overpaid a lot.
All of the amenities are above average with an ideal location.
This hotel has not been decorated since 1976 and it shows! The only usable public space is a tiny bar area, with a 2 metre long bar to serve 500 guests. The food is thrown on tables by disinterested waiters, probably embarrased to be serving up the nighlty treat of a thimbale of cold pasta, pork chop (on some nights accompanied by a potato or a vegetable - singular!), followed by a slice birthday cake. After your luxurious meal, you can watch the evening cabaret starring the 3 camp entertainers> This usually consists of watching them dance to 1970's Italain classics.
After such entertainment, you can relax in your room..well maybe not as you can only use the airconditioning if you are in your room and once you do cool down, the rooms are so small and walls so thin, you have to wait until the other guests turn off their TV before you can go to bed.
The pool is great as are the views but be warned if you do not get your towel on a sun bed before 7am, you will not get a sunbed.
Avoid this hotel if you have children, taste or dignity - we booked an extra flight and left 3 days early and we are not alone!
You have been warned.
It is difficult to get into Alghero from here, too. Their private shuttle has limited times, so you end up taking the public bus, which takes at least 25 minutes and doesn't come that often (it completely drove past us one time, too!).
The outdoor rec facilities were lacking as well. The bocce ball court and put-put course were unkempt and adjacent to the smelly dumpsters. The tennis courts were okay. The beach and pool were the only remotely redeeming qualities, but even then, the beach doesn't have waves--this place is not on the ocean, but rather a bay, so don't expect a real beach. Oh, and as if the state of the facilities isn't annoying enough, they add insult to injury by making you pay a resort fee to use the facilities per day per person ( I think it was 5 euros per person per day).
The food was incredibly mediocre. Most people opt for full board, which means you eat all your meals in the cafeteria style "restaurant." We opted not to be subjected to their food anymore than breakfast (continental--nothing hot other than coffee). That being said, we were hungry. There is only 1 restaurant within walking distance; otherwise you have to go into Alghero (which is what you should do anyway--Alghero is beautiful with great restaurants).
All in all, don't bother going here. Perhaps if you have kids it would make sense, but even then it doen't seem worth the money. Particularly if you're American, you'd be much better off staying stateside and going to one of the many luxurious resorts that are kid friendly. For everyone else, if you're in Sardinia, there are plenty of other wonderful places to stay that are nicer, cleaner, more fun, and a LOT less expensive.
The vast majority of the staff were pleasant and helpful and the dinner menu was, on the whole of good quality and choice. Breakfast was OK, but could have benefitted from a little more variety.The rooms were clean and fairly spacious, plus having the adjoining family rooms was a big bonus with the two bathrooms and balconies. Finally, the childrens' entertainers are very friendly and hardworking and our children enjoyed some of the activities.
Unfortunately though, the negatives outnumbered the positives. The area around the hotel at the front was extremely scruffy and full of litter when we first arrived, creating a negative first impression. There are steep steps up to reception with no-one there to greet us and help with heavy luggage. The pool area is much smaller than the brochure photographs would lead you to believe meaning that when it got busier in the second week it wasn't very pleasant being in the pool. It is also closed over lunch as there are no lifeguards to supervise at this time. Some of the lunchtime bar staff were terse and unfriendly, despite our efforts at cordiality and speaking Italian and the lunchtime menu was limited and expensive.
The main problem though was the level of noise. On arrival we were presented with a daily entertainment timetable. It was clear straight away that in the evening the entertainment went on until 12pm. We had been advised by our travel agents that it finished at 10pm We were however slightly reassured by the fact that the 11-12pm slot was supposed to be the piano bar and therefore we presumed it would be quiet. However on our first night we were dismayed at being kept awake by loud music and a compere shouting down a mic until 12.45 . We had been up since 3am the previous morning due to an early flight and my 11 year old daughter was in tears she was so tired and unable to sleep because of the noise. It didn't help that our room was very near to the back of the stage area.
We complained the next morning and were reassured that it was a one-off and had been a "special occasion". Even so, most nights there was loud music and more shouting until at least 12pm, followed by people returning noisily along the corridors to their rooms. Our children are pretty much ready for bed by 10pm, paricularly after being up early for breakfast, but there was never really any chance of an early night.
Coupled with this was the daytime activities programme. Most mornings there was loud music in the terrace bar from 11am. Then there was often a quiz with a compere (with no concessions for those whose who are not fluent in Italian ) before lunch. At lunch there was a pianist, which was great for the first few days but then began to annoy. Then after lunch more music from the terrace bar. Then at 4pm a speaker was placed by the pool and very loud music (the same tracks every day) was thumped out for the aqua aerobics, which rarely had more than a handful of participants. Then half an hour of quiet then another session of aerobics on the grass by the pool again with a loud thumping sound track. Then more music from the terrace bar, until finally some peace from 6pm until 9pm, when most people are getting ready for and having dinner. Then the kids disco and the rest is history. We complained twice more but there was no change.
It was such a shame; an idyllic setting ruined by noise pollution! Plus, as the hotel really was in the middle of nowhere and as we had been advised by our travel agent that we wouldn't really need a car, we were stuck there. We did have a morning in Alghero, which is not the most attractive of towns, and went on a boat trip on another day and I it was a relief to have a break from the noise.
We are a fun-loving family who enjoy a quiz, games, music and activities like most people. Just not all the time and not at full blast! Even if they had made it alternate days it would have helped. I had visions of leisurely dance lessons, relaxing background music and some fun things for the children to join in with. Ten days in a row of "Barbie Girl" and Rick Astley blaring out constantly would send even the most devoted fans crazy. The compere seemed incapable of going anywhere without the microphone permanently attached to his mouth and unless you were completely fluent in Italian his shouting eventually just became noise too.
All in all a real disappointment! It's a shame that so many family hotels can't get the entertainment/peace and quiet in the right doses. Even the beautiful location would not tempt us back
OK so the rooms are plain - but they are also spotlessly clean.
OK the place is a little isolated - but the views are simply unbelievable if you opt for the sea view. (That's a no brainer)
OK the hotel's Alghero shuttle doesn't run out of season - but the bus ride is a thrilling experience and costs less than a quid!
OK the fantastic and cheap little restaurant (Embracadero)around the corner isn't open weekdays until the end of April - but on a Saturday night you get free entry into their disco at 11pm and boy , can those Italians Salsa!
OK the hotel's evening 3 course meal is a little pricey (25€) - but the quality is awesome, the service top-notch and a bottle of wine is just £5 extra.
Hire bikes from the hotel and head off to the coves of the Bombarde,
get the bus to Alghero and take the boat trip to Capo Caccio but most importantly,
take in the wonderful view from your room,
swim off the private beach (even in April),
visit Embracadero Restaurant on a Saturday night
and then relax, relax, relax.
Finally, at midnight, walk the woman you love down the boardwalk and paddle your feet in the Med whilst gazing at the stars over the heights of Capo Caccio.
We'll be going back - out of season.
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