Moved to this more approprate place (by Moderator)

Personally can`t see it being much of a "good thing" myself when the people of the Algarve rely mainly on tourism for their income and MGM are bringing in slave sorry cheap labour from the Far East.

No longer use the hotels but reports I have heard is CPO is like a prison camp. Oura Praia they have done nothing to that is fact. 

Forte Da Oura was home or party venue to circa 6-700 young Spaniards earlier in the year. CPO housed the majority of the Brits that were a nuisance last month.

They are interested in lining their pockets and they are not bothered who they trample on doing it for the fast buck.

 

 

Yes, they will be coming here in larger numbers simply because they can get cheap booze from sun up to sun down at any MGM all inclusive establishment. Albufeira in my eyes is finished for the family groups and people who do not want to pickle their liver for a fortnight.

My opinion is that it is just too large a complex, but having said that lots of people seemed to be enjoying themselves.

We will never go back there.

DICEYUK wrote: simpson wrote: To be quite honest with you the all inclusive is not as good as it is supposed to be you cant have ice cream until. 4pm to 5pm how do you tell kids wait until 4pm  drinks can only be had from the ocean bar.  you cant have them in piano bar or bar where there is entertainment.   If you want water with your meal you have to buy it . you are allowed one glass of wine or juice with your meal unless you want to walk all the way down to the ocean bar and bring it to the restaurant.  But as you say no doubt some will sit in the ocean bar all day.  Daughter is fine now in there new room and she was also given a spray for the ants. Not like any AI that we ever went on, although that was 15 years ago. How can it be "All Inclusive" when you have to pay for water and are rationed on other things? I mean, there's really no other interpretation of the words "all" and "inclusive" that I'm aware of. Either it's "All Inclusive" or it isn't and the description above from simpson says to me that it isn't. I'd be straight to Trading Standards quoting the Trades Description Act if it was me.

Quite agree Dicey, but the T & Cs always state exactly what you get in these places, people just don't read them properly. The travel companies cover their backsides good n proper.

The fact is that most hotels here don't want to do AI, they are forced into it by travel companies trying to protect themselves from DIY holidaymakers. Folk are daft if they expect Caribbean style AI for an extra fiver a day on top of what they would pay for B n B.    

Chloe the numbers were well down in the bars in the CPO/Oura Praia area over last winter/spring mainly due to the lack of more senior long stayers.

That area is normally very well inhabited over the low season.

Might have been due to Santa Eulalia Hotel being closed for a spruce up and Oura Praia being closed most likely because MGM may as well have everybody in the one complex CPO which is their perogative.

But you would still expect to see familiar faces using the same haunts.

One bar in particular it was like all the Elvis`s and Frank Sinatra`s had left the building if you know which bar I mean .

 

 

I know the bar you mean! Because MGM have taken over just about everything that stands in the Oura area, it has become very expensive for not much quality. Last winter they closed most of their outlets leaving basically CPO operating. The long stayers are leaving in their droves. Basically MGM have killed off that end of town. Bars were reporting few customers, in fact one bar had 6 people in all night and a lot of them were closed by 11.30 to midnight.