Vila Gale Ampalius Resort Hotel

Great hotel, great location right on the beautiful sandy beach . Usual amenities, proximity to local bars, pubs, restaurants in the marina & surrounding area. Friendly staff. Clean rooms

Returning home today New Year’s Eve 2025 & returning in May 2026 with friends to same hotel.

No complaints except no tea/coffee in the rooms

Rooms and location excellent. Only gripe the small kitchen wasn't very well equiped, no kettle!!
Easy reach to Vilamoura Marina and Quateira.

Just returned from pleasant five night stay, apart from the last night when there was a wedding in beach club attached to Tivoli hotel next door. Thumping noise went until 1.45am. So avoid room facing west. Apart from that, very pleasant stay.

We would of gave this property at best a 3 star if for not Fabio at the front desk. Without getting into all the details of our A/C stuck heating on heat. Anyways, Fabio profusely apoligized for the issue and immediately upgraded us to mini kitchen ocean front. Thus gesture and attention to details got the hotel a higher rating.

This is absolutely the best hotel on the water in the entire Algavre coast!

Please be aware while staying at this hotel without any warning they have started to do a lot of internal building work. Meaning a lot of the described facilities are no longer available to hotel guests staying from October 6th onwards. Also heavily used by groups of male golfers. This has impacted our stay in a very negative way. If had knowed in advance would have re booked at another hotel nearby.

The hotel is amazing the reception team especially Fabio excellent, the dining room staff exceptional ,food good facilities excellent . The hotel is literally a few steps to the beach
Close to the marina
Has a bus stop at the top of the road which has an excellent bus service to visit other towns Fargo etc
Also has a free shuttle bus to the next town Quatera which you can walk to along the beautiful promenade it’s a 15 min walk at the most depending on how fast you walk
The hotel I cannot fault
The problem is the golfers they come in large groups and basically take over the pool area and hotel
They also took over some bars in the Marina
It didn’t ruin our holiday as Portugual is fantastic and the weather was suburb
We spoke to some ladies who had been to the hotel for the past 7 years and said it hasn’t always been this bad and maybe it was because their usual hotel was shut at the time they came here
But that was the only thing that I would say was a negative for us
But like I said I could be different at another time .
Just a heads up

Our room had a balcony and was facing the carpark, with a sidewise view of the sea. Quite noisy, particularly during the time the next door beach club was in full swing! It was functional, tired with no real stand outs. It was cleaned daily and well. Breakfast was adequate with good choice. The melon was particularly tasty. Staff were very attentive and kept the area clean and food was quickly replenished. Pool area was ok, as was the small pool bar which had a good array of drinks and friendly staff. The hotel has missed opportunities to make this a much better holiday experience, for example there is so much wasted space and tired furniture which could be better utilised. There’s not many nice outside areas to sit to have a drink and cake. It would absolutely benefit from a make over to bring it up to standard. It is clearly a hotel favoured by golfers on short golfing break with mates so in September there are few families and couples. Can’t comment on the evening entertainment and spa as we didn’t experience these. The main benefit that this hotel has is location, next to the beach and marina.

Arrived at 11am and really happy to find that our room was ready (despite check in being 4pm). We had room 623, a sea view with balcony.
Room fairly small and table and comfy chairs just got in the way a bit. Lovely bathroom and a great shower. We had a little kitchen area which was a nice surprise. We did request a kettle at check in which never arrived but we managed with the hotplate and using a pan to warm up water. Not much storage. Small wardrobe and only 3 tiny drawers. It was fine for us as we were only there for 4 nights. Big balcony and a view of the beach and marina.
Breakfast was lovely, lots of choice, nice coffee machines.
Pool areas are nice. Larger pool was a bit rowdy at times....entertainment team playing extremely loud music in the afternoons. The smaller pool was a lot more pleasant and quieter.
Towels provided for pool....big enough but not brilliant (not very soft!).
The hotel does attract a lot of mainly male golfers. No problems with this but some may not like it.
Only a 5 minute walk to the mmarina.Some lovely restaurants and reasonable prices. Lots of loud, busy Irish bars full of big groups of male golfers. Lots of karaoke, some live music. Nice enough but feels very 'British' and not somewhere i would rush back to. Woukd prefer somewhere more traditional and Portugese!

Vila gale AMPALIUS is a lovely hotel in the best location so close to the beach and the marina. The staff are all very helpful and friendly. The breakfast is good quality but not much variation but that's the norm abroad.
The rooms are spotless with fresh clean towels every day.
The only negative is the booming music from Puro beach club across the road it really spoilt our stay we could not relax on our balcony. I must say though after a few days we were asked if we would like to move to a quieter room but we didn't want to repack to change rooms for another few days.

Excellent clean and highly recommend

The pools being that there was plenty of room

If you are not Portuguese don't bother coming here. Staff are less than interested in providing any kind of service. Very poor

Booked two standard sea view rooms for a 7-night family holiday, half board. I was initially apprehensive about loud music and the evening meals, having read previous reviews, but my concerns were unfounded. We actually had a great experience. The hotel is a stones throw from a beautiful beach, where we hired sun loungers each day. Vilamoura Marina is short walk away and there are plenty of shops, restaurants and takeaways nearby. Uber is available and well served; we got around no problem and even had a late-night takeaway delivered to the hotel for a late arrival in our party. The rooms themselves looked a little tired and well used, but perfectly functional. There is a distinct lack of wall sockets for charging however, without unplugging other things. A leaky AC unit in one room was repaired almost immediately. I was a little disappointed to find the standard sea view rooms are located to the rear of the hotel, and while you can view the sea, it is more of a side sea view IMHO. We had no issues with noise from neighbouring properties, or from within the hotel itself. We particularly enjoyed the food options at breakfast and dinner. The choice was plentiful and beautifully presented, with many healthy options. If you and your children exist exclusively on a diet of burgers and chicken nuggets, the evening meals are probably not for you. The evening entertainment was impressive - we really enjoyed dining al fresco on these nights. The Brazilian night in particular was impressive and dashed our early night plans for a 5:30am departure!

It’s a busy hotel. The rooms take long to have ready on time. Line ups at the front desk, they should staff up on peak high season at least.

Hotel rooms were clean, staff very helpful,but not a lot of information in English, The down fall was the food, at night it was either cold or luke warm, and not a lot of choice, ate out a few nights.

We’ve stayed at Vila Galé properties many times and always book directly as loyal Vila Galé Club members. Unfortunately, our recent experience at the Ampalius in Vilamoura left us disappointed, especially given our short 3-night stay.

We arrived early at 9:30am after travelling through the night. While we didn’t expect immediate access to our room, we had hoped, as club members, to be accommodated with an earlier than usual check-in. We checked again at 1pm and then at the standard check-in time of 3pm but didn’t receive our room until 5pm.

To add to the frustration, we were only offered a twin room instead of the double we had booked. After such a long journey, we reluctantly accepted this just to get some rest, but it felt like a compromise on something that should’ve been guaranteed.

We were offered a 10% drinks voucher as a goodwill gesture, which we declined. We didn’t want a discount, we just wanted the room we booked, at a reasonable time, to start enjoying our stay.

The Standard Sea View room itself is fine and the bathroom with walking shower looks new but having previously stayed in the Superior Sea View, the difference is notable, the latter is far superior in terms of space and views. Well worth extra cost. Unfortunately, none were available at the time of booking.

On a positive note, although others had mentioned noise from the nearby beach club, it was quite noticeable but wasn’t a problem for us.

Overall, the late check-in took a big chunk out of our short break, and it left us disappointed with a hotel we’ve come to expect more from. We hope Vila Galé takes note and improves the experience for loyal guests like us in the future.

Excellent Hotel, would recommend.
Very close to beach, bars & restaurants.
Staff at hotel couldn't do enough to help.

Arrived after 30minutes taxi transfer from the airport. Check-in was simple and both rooms we had booked were ready. Was on 9th floor with rooms next door to each other. Rooms were clean and spacious, with a good size bathroom, and powerful working AC, and free in room safe. We didn’t have a balcony which was fine for three nights anything longer and I think it would have been missed. Nice large pool area with plenty of sun beds, and pool bar, and the beach directly across the road, and walking distance from the wonderful Marina. We stayed on a B&B basis food was well plentiful and well presented and the made to order eggs and omelette station were delicious. I would recommend this hotel and would certainly return on my next visit to Vilamoura.

Fabulous place hotel beautiful staff excellent in all areas cannot find any faults . Nothing is to much trouble.Comimg here for 10 years . Lovely welcome every single member of staff fantastic.Room lovely always clean .masa vina excellent