Pine Cliffs Ocean Suites, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Algarve

The hotel itself is quite beautiful - marble courtyards, large green gardens overlooking the ocean and comfortable rooms.

Breakfast is an absolute joke. The breakfast area is far too small to accommodate the number of guests, meaning you you have to queue up for 20-30 mins just to get a table. Once you have a table, you then have to queue up a further 15-20 mins if you want cooked eggs, meaning you probably start eating breakfast about an hour after you arrive at the restaurant! A lot of people we were queuing up with were extremely irritated at this - this is not what you expect at a 5 star hotel. The in resort restaurants are also extremely expensive - you normally expect 5 star resort restaurants to be a little pricey, but the restaurants here are extortionate - we paid EUR38 for a dish consisting of 3 medium prawns with a small side of rice. The quality of food was also not great, and we found much better quality food at better value outside the resort.