“PARA QUÉ MAQUILLARLO: ENGAÑO TOTAL.”
It’s a scam: as soon as we arrived, the hotel front‑desk staff looked uneasy, and it was clear something strange was happening. There is a hotel on the beach with a reception, but these rooms are on a secondary, ugly street far from the beach. The DUNA PARK group bought a house and turned it into five rooms. Even though it’s clean, the balcony is dirty with a dirty chair that isn’t shown in the photos; it faces ugly Uralita roofs of the neighbors below, who are traditional neighbors. In short: you think you’re in a hotel or apartments, and from the hotel reception they send you 3 km up, to the most disadvantaged part of the town, where the night isn’t frequented by the more elegant people of Portugal (or any). And why is it a scam? Because the price is very high, and that’s why you don’t imagine they would dare to charge you a fee for a room in a house in the bad part of town (no reception, nothing, all around uglier than a fridge behind), with views of the Uralita roofs of the neighbor with a garden below, who were smoking and making rice, blowing smoke up. And why is it safe? Because for us, we were looking for an apartment 150 m from the beach for half the price, two days. So instead of 165 €/day as this was, we found an apartment with a kitchenette almost by the beach for 75 €/day. That’s the scam and the audacity: and it’s not worth saying everything is very transparent, and that you can use the main hotel’s pool (sadly). The. that the DUNA GROUP is a con when it comes to photos, and when we exposed the scam, we suggested they apply the 317 € to the 525 € payment for two days in a room with sea view in the main hotel (another scam, because the hotel feels like the 80s, but okay), and they said no. What did we do? We went elsewhere for 150 € two days with a great cool place (called DUNA MAR apartments, which are the ones you should go to for price‑quality). That cost us the money, yes, but we still spent less. Once we had another hotel, we returned the keys and asked for a refund of at least one unused day, and they also denied it with a nasty kindness. For that reason, we’re going to file the appropriate complaint to avoid other travelers being scammed because not everything is worth.
Francisco·2个月前