IVF Spain

I wish to highly recommend IVF Spain as a clinic for egg donation. My husband and i had success first time with a successful pregnancy and now have a beautiful 15 month old girl. The clinic was immaculate and the staff were so personable and friendly. The fact that we live in the UK was daunting in itself but the way that the clinic made us feel relaxed and comfortable helped to make the experience almost enjoyable. I would not hesitate in recommending the clinic for so many reasons and we are considering using them again in the future. Thanks so much to them for making our dreams come true.

Our IVF journey started a few years ago at an IVF event in Cardiff, where we met Katie Lawless from IVF Spain. Katie was amazing and filled us with confidence to use this clinic. Sadly, Katie has now left the company. We had our 1st ever DE transfer in April 2019 which failed. As it failed, we questioned everything which had happened on our journey. I felt so upset about fundamental errors in communication and missed medication that I decided to put together an email to the clinic to get answers to a catalogue of errors. I was told that the board would review the email and a response would be sent to us. I received a response to my email from Carolina Sanz, Head of Process Quality on 31.05.19 - My Husband and I did not feel that her email addressed any of the issues we had raised, so I replied to her the same day and asked her to address 3 main points. Nothing was received, so I emailed her again directly on 13.06.19 to ask for a response - nothing! I emailed again her directly on 27.06.19 and asked for a response - nothing! On 09.07.19, I emailed info@ivf-spain.com and made it FAO Tasha Dawson and explained that I was getting no response from Carolina and could she advise anyone else for me to email - guess what? No reply!! I am getting communication from my co-ordinator about my treatment plan for round 2, however, this is not without issues again as there are times that she will send an email to my Husband only and not copy me in!! I am due to go out to Alicante on 18.09.19 for a Hysteroscopy. Due to finances, I asked our coordinator several times if it was a necessity to have an anaesthetic for the procedure & several times, she said that it was not. She did say that it would depend on my pain threshold, but they would put sedation and a general anaesthetic on standby for me in case it was needed. I emailed with the date I was looking at and confirmed to her the flight times, that I would be travelling alone and would need to fly out and back on the same day and asked her to confirm if there would be enough time to have the procedure (with and without anaesthetic) for the period of time I would be there. She confirmed that this would be fine. I then went ahead and booked my flight and confirmed this with the coordinator - this was on 25.06.19. On 13.07.19, the coordinator emailed me to check if it was the ER Map or the hysteroscopy that I wanted without anaesthetic as the Hysteroscopy could not be done without an anaesthetic and they would recommend that I was flying on my own, that I would need to stay over and return home the next day. This email was sent to my Husband only. I replied to say that I had checked with her several times before booking the flight and she confirmed that it was possible, and that I was not prepared to change my flight as this would be an additional cost plus I'd have to pay for accommodation for the night that I would have to stay. Her reply to this was that it is perfectly fine to fly home the same day - please make up your mind!!!! My Husband and I have completely lost all faith in IVF Spain and the only reason we are continuing with them is because we have 3 blastocysts frozen with them - if we did not have these, I would be looking for another clinic. I have heard good reviews about the clinic, but considering my experience so far, I would definitely not recommend them to anyone.

We really had high hopes for this clinic due to all the great reviews that we have read. Unfortunately, it hasn't been a great experience so far. The lack of communication has caused so much stress. This should have given us warning bells from the beginning, when I would have to email repeat questions at least twice in order for all questions to be answered. We were told that trigger would be occurring on a particular day and then when we hadn't heard anything by 5pm that afternoon we called to be told that trigger hadn't happened, therefore, EPU would not occur on the day we thought. After EPU, the embryologists communication was fantastic, early in the afternoon and precise. Unfortunately, we again had to chase the clinic up for times for transfer as we still hadn't been told appt times by 4pm the day before. When we called them, we were then told our coordinator was 'Just about to email you'. Unfortunately, we only got 2 day 5 embryos (we have chosen the 5 day blastocyst package). I got a negative bloodtest result a week ago. We are concerned the transfer took place too late in my cycle (which they were provided with previous successful transfer information - done 3 days earlier than their transfer technique) We feel that we are now getting the run around from the clinic regarding their committee meeting (told it would happen by this week and now received an email to tell me that it 'should' happen. Have also only now been told our doctor is on holidays until next Friday so have asked to speak to another doctor, especially considering we only met with him for about 15 mins on one occasion). The lack of communication is frustrating. We are from Australia so really can't just book last minute airfares because they can't stick to a communication timeline.

Very disappointed and dissatisfied with this clinic! Not responsible for the patient!!! We have choosen the most expensive Program "EGG DONATION EXCLUSIVE PLUS + PGS" and have had 4 blastocysts passed PGS according to the clinik. However, non of them gave us even a pragnancy! At the End I was only recommanded to do more try with other Doner, because the Doctor guesses that the Doner I have had maybe not suitable for me. The treatments I have did all the time were mainly against mein immune system. But at the end they told me that according to my bluttest from the beginning, I have actually no problem mit my immume system. I have never believe that they just work like this!!!

Our son was born with DE IVF at first attempt. This shows that the clinic are technically very good. Where the experience did not work well at all was the donor match. Our son's skin is a lot darker than ours and he looks like one of her parents are Mediterranean. We get comments about this on a weekly basis, as he stands out. I would not recommend going if you are pale skinned as you cannot guarantee your child's skin colour will be a good match.

We couldn’t wait to review IVF Spain for so many reasons. Not only did they succeed in making me pregnant but the journey to get there was wonderful thanks to them. From the moment when we entered the beautiful clinic in Alicante to the friendly and knowledgeable staff we never once doubted that we were in the best IVF clinic in the world. What makes this clinic so special is beyond words but I can name a few practical ways too. Firstly, the way they spoke to us was so special and forward-thinking. It was as if they were trained in NLP as they never doubted that we would be pregnant from the outset. Secondly, they treated us so differently from any clinic in the UK (where we were told on numerous occasions that we were too old and that it would probably never work). Also, they were so precise and thorough with our treatment, pinpointing the exact minute of insemination based on months of careful work on their part. Most importantly for us, Dr. Alicia Alvarez is by far the most incredible doctor who we have ever had the fortune to meet and who we now respect intensely. After fifteen years of trying to have a baby we only wished we had come to them first as we would have saved a lifetime of disappointment as well as a small fortune. We simply cannot wait to get pregnant again and would never ever consider going anywhere else. They are like our extended family in every way.

Hi there. egg donation IVF in spain cost me less than I would pay in berlin. anyway in germany i wouldn't be able to have it anyway. Alicante seems cheaper than barcelona if you ask me.somewhow we managed to squeeze nice accomodation, flight etc into our tight budget. If the IVF had failed, we would have gone to IVF spain again for second cycle with no hesitation. the doctors said it should work the first time.

Ladies thank you for all these ivf spain reviews. I was hesitating for a very long time. was to scared to go abroad for this type of treatment. but I saw so many British and German people are going there to have ivf i was surprised. I don't regret anything the clinic turned out to be very professional and has great eqipment and all the tests I wanted to have done. Thnx!

I took part in that IVF Spain Alicante competition!! I hope I'll win! Please I really need to try but can't afford ivf for the moment. Kisses, Bridget & Keith

Completely lost hope with this clinic first transfer resulted in an eptopic pregnancy. 2nd transfer was not monitored enough they transferred eggs when my bloods showed the transfer would not work. Seems money oriented not patient oriented they blamed me that I should have pushed them more for results. They never reviewed them and it was my fault we are devastated please think before using this clinic

I'm 47 and I'm Australian. I tried ivf in Australia 6 months ago. It didn't work and it was sooo expensive. My niece told me Spain is one of the best countries to have IVF. If I had to compare Australia and Spain, Spain gets all the pluses: greatcare from the start, the doctors speak English, reasonable cost. We're still in the process of treatment - I'm hoping for success.

After 3 failed attempts in UK and taking hard decision to use donor eggs. Clinic are amazing, within 2 months of 1St visit, back for treatment with daily updates on eggs. We have a gorgeous baby boy. Best decision we ever made and going back for 2nd go

We already tried IVF once in UK and it was expensive..very expensive and it failed, so we decided to try treatment abroad, somewhere where the prices were lower and the standards high and that's why we chose Spain... this time it was a success and it costed us less. IVF Spain is a great clinic

Great clinic, it all felt so...comfortable! after the initial talk with my doctor I felt really good about the whole procedure from the begininng. I would recommend this clinic to everybody!