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| Low season | September |
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| High season | December |
| Average price (weeknight): | R3 016 |
| Average price (weekend night): | R2 184 |
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1
R3 636+
Overview
With a stay at Riu Palace Cabo Verde in Sal, you'll be by the ocean, within a 5-minute drive of Santa Maria Beach and Nazarene Church. Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, multilingual staff, and luggage storage. Free self parking is available onsite.
2
R3 341+
Overview
When you stay at Morabeza Hotel in Sal, you'll be on the beach, within a 10-minute walk of Santa Maria Beach and Santa Maria Pier. Featured amenities include a computer station, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
3
R1 516+
Overview
Reviews
When you stay at Odjo d'Agua in Sal, you'll be on the beach, within a 5-minute walk of Santa Maria Beach and Santa Maria Town Square. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Fantastic hotel!!! Very beautifully designed building, lovely spotless room with balcony and comfortable beds, 2 nice pools. The staff are very friendly and helpful, the breakfast buffet has a good variety and the ocean views in the restaurant are priceless. Absolutely loved it and can only recommend to stay here if your budget allows it!
7,5 Good
Pros: I liked everything. The food was excellent , the staf fantastic and location of hotel , very central and pleased, I will return again and i will take family and friens to enjoy this amazing place, so piecefully and with so good people. I love it.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Amazing location and excellent staff. Everybody is very polite and helpful. I loved the swimming pool, the beach bar and the hotel restaurant. The bedrooms are spacious and have a little terrace.
7,5 Good
Pros: Elegant room,cleaning every day, restaurant with the view on sea,pool very nice. Also took the massage in the spa-very good and relaxing.
7,9 Good
Pros: Great location.
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4
R1 011+
Overview
Reviews
With a stay at Hotel da Luz in Sal, you'll be by the ocean, within a 10-minute drive of Santa Maria Beach and Ponta Preta. Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, laundry facilities, and a library. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
9,6 Excellent
Pros: Lovely, friendly, and helpful staff at the reception. All of them were all fantastic when our flights were changed and we needed assistance with contacting the airline. The hotel is super clean. The bar tender Walter is truly wonderful and serves a great ponche. Good location just off the centre of town.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Newly renovated hotel with really friendly staff, great breakfast and confortable rooms.
8,0 Excellent
Pros: The room was very comfortable and practical. Wireless internet is available everywhere and free for guests. The whole hotel is an open building which provides for a lot of natural ventilation and lightning. The staff were very friendly.
Cons: The bathroom was a bit small and there could have been a more clever use of the space, like shelving under the sink. We were asked to pay extra 10€ to use the safe. That's the first time it ever happened to me. The breakfast had only a limited selection of white breads, no yogurts, no jams and a limited fruit selection. The coffee from the machine had a burnt barley-like flavor. But overall still quite satisfying.
7,0 Good
Pros: Location, quiet, very clean, modern
Cons: Breakfast was good but could have been better, more variety maybe. Thats it.
6,0 Good
Pros: Modern, nicely designed hotel, friendly competent personnel. Airport transfer was reliably organised.
Cons: I saw a total of 6 cockroaches in my room, 3 humongous and dead, 3 smaller and very much alive. The fourth one I named Matilda. The location is a little outside of the main tourist area, but still very close to everything. Overall, value-for-money did not quite add up for me.
7,9 Good
Pros: Staff was friendly, rooms big enough, clean, and well furnished including TV, balcony, perfectly working wifi. Everything was perfect, nothing to complain. Sea and city center are both a 5min walk away. If you like to stay a bit outside of the crowded touristic places this is the perfect hotel for you!
Cons: Nothing really to complain for this pricerange. Pool was much smaller than expected but with the sea in walking distance who needs a pool anyway?
10,0 Excellent
Pros: I stayed at Hotel da Luz for a week and had a really brilliant time. The hotel staff are excellent: they’re very welcoming and will do anything you need so that you enjoy your stay. The hotel is located centrally in Sal and is a short walk from most places in Santa Maria. To give an example of the good hospitality, on the last day we checked out early and went to the beach as our flight was late in the evening. On coming back to the hotel to get ready for the flight, the staff had saved a room for us to go shower and clean up in without us even asking for it. It’s these little details that really make your stay here great. I also recommend the kitchen for dinner on one of your nights here. The seafood rice is extremely cheap compared to other restaurants and is a seafood lovers dream!
Cons: Honestly nothing!
8,8 Excellent
Pros: very clean and comfortable with good value for money.
Cons: arrived around midnight and no drinking water available at hotel so had to go out to a place 5 minute walk away to purchase. Hotel may want to consider providing a bottle of water in room fridge for new arrivals
5
R2 162+
Overview
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When you stay at Hotel Oasis Belorizonte in Sal, you'll be on the beach, within a 10-minute walk of Santa Maria Beach and Santa Maria Pier. Featured amenities include a business center, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Excellent stay, early check in and late check out without any fee. Staff was excellent. Good quality food. Close to the beach
Cons: Nothing
9,6 Excellent
Pros: Very new, clean hotel with excellent staff. Our room was upgraded and a bottle of bubbly and a cake was given to us on arrival for our anniversary. We very much enjoyed our few days - the beach bar was a lovely place to sit and relax with beautiful beach and great weather
Cons: Plastic glasses in every bar! It would have been nice to enjoy a drink in nice surroundings in a real glass!
7,1 Good
Pros: Perfect location, with a great private beach, not far from the center. Breakfast was very good, with satisfying table of fresh fruit, everything you need to have a good day at the beach. For lunch there are two restaurants, so it doesn´t become too crowded.
Cons: Oasis Belorizonte is probably without any renovation since it was built, and it´s notable in almost every places: the bathrooms are old, the walls are grimy, the air conditioning doesn´t work in the common areas (what attracts mosquitoes) ... Besides that, the all included drinks are almost unpalatable and the only restaurant that is open for dinner without reservation looks like a canteen, where everyone seems hungry, attacking and eating the remains of what once was a food platter. In my opinion, there should be more restaurants and a faster service, considering the amount of people. Therefore, taking into account the hotel's degradation, the price is beyond excessive.
7,9 Good
Pros: Bungalow much smaller than I imagined, but very comfortable. Pillows 10 out of 10. Excellent air con in room. Plenty of food at buffets...and actually very tasty...except for coffee. Beach close by, and fresh beach towels always available.. Free wifi given to compensate for limited restaurant availabilty - thanks for that.
Cons: Only one restaurant available for all meals. Lines at the bars were often long, because of people wanting a decent cup of coffee, and often only one bar person. I suggest coffee making be separate from the bars. All staff were friendly and efficient, but at times overwhelmed by the lines.
7,1 Good
Pros: The new rooms (700/800) but all in all a great concept with the bungalows..
Cons: I didn't like the plastic cups for drinks, they could at least have reusable ones and also 3dcl not 1 dcl to minimize the output. And besides two servers at the bar nobody seems to smile( staff not friendly at all)... Oh and if you wanted to drink in the beach bar after 17.30 we were asked to leave so they could prepare for dinner... Normally the beach bars are open a minimum till the sun goes down, but no such luck here.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Friendly staff, fantastic food, great sandy beach.
7,9 Good
Pros: We enjoyed!
Cons: The food, beach and services!
6
R2 527+
Overview
Nestled on the beach, this Sal property is within 1 mi (2 km) of Santa Maria Pier and Santa Maria Beach. Nazarene Church and Santa Maria Town Square are also within 1 mi (2 km).
7
R983+
Overview
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Hotel Pontao is in the heart of Sal, within a 10-minute walk of Nazarene Church and Santa Maria Beach. Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, multilingual staff, and luggage storage. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Rooms OK. Good location, near city center and beach. Helpfull staff. At the end of our stay, they even provide us with a room to take shower and to change clothes before the flight for free. Good breakfast and good dinner. Would definitely come again.
8,0 Excellent
Pros: Very nice breakfast, although every day the same food. The rooms cleaned daily, towels changed, all clean and nice. Beautiful, green patio (connected to terrace restaurant part) with the pool and on the 3rd floor jacuzzi, gym and sunbathing spot that the personnel doesnt mention! What i liked the most is that is mainly visited by adult or older people and there was no children running around and screaming, so it was possible to rest in a calm, peaceful atmosphere. Very good location and good price.
Cons: The coffe given with the breakfast was bad. The personnel was speaking english but not very good, however it was possible to communicate in a simple way. Toilet paper was too thin :(
8,3 Excellent
Pros: The bed was hard but actually comfortable
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8
R856+
Overview
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With a stay at Hotel Aquamarina Suites THe Senses Collection, you'll be centrally located in Sal, within a 5-minute walk of Santa Maria Beach and Santa Maria Pier. Featured amenities include multilingual staff and laundry facilities. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours).
9,6 Excellent
Pros: Perfect location, very kindly staff and amazing infrastructure (despite the process of renovation and some issues related to it).
Cons: Wi-Fi was available only in the hall.
9,2 Excellent
Pros: The property was located in the centre of Santa Maria. They cleaned the room and we had clean towels every day. The staff was super helpful and friendly.
7,9 Good
Pros: The location is perfect. You are right at the beginning of the main strip in Santa Maria. Yet it was never noisy enough to disturb a goodnights sleep (unless you are a serious light sleeper)! The beach was just a 3 minute walk away and we could see the sea from our room and balcony. Our room was super clean for the whole of our stay. Beds made and sheets changed daily. Clean towels every day too.
Cons: The breakfast was extremely basic, so we went out to local cafes most mornings. The internet was not working for three days during our stay (we were told it was a problem with the internet provider). Our room was a little dark as there was only the french door window in the bedroom.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Loved the breakfast and the service from Anna was great. Went down for breakfast every morning at 9am everything was available and didn't run out of anything, Cereals, eggs however you wanted them endless bread for toast and fresh fruit. The cleaning staff were all great and when I returned to my room everyday it was spotless and just like when I moved in.
9,2 Excellent
Pros: Location was great, 3 minute walk from the beach and from the main road and restaurants. Also room very clean and nice staff.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: The hospitality, location, the style of rooms, shower pressure, comfortable bed and excellent breakfast were excellent value for money. The boss even let me have a late check out for no extra cost because I had a late flight. Also they were very knowledgeable about the area. Highly recommended!
Cons: Nothing excellent
8,8 Excellent
Pros: This is a really good option if you want to be right by the beach but don't want to be in an all inclusive resort. The beach is literally just 2-3 minutes walk and the shops, bars, and restaurants are all down the road. The breakfast is nice too and I had to check in and out after midnight and the staff were very accommodating.
Cons: Wifi only works in the common area, but it's a pretty comfortable place to sit and spend time.
9
R1 699+
Overview
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When you stay at Hotel Dunas de Sal in Sal, you'll be near the beach, within a 5-minute drive of Nazarene Church and Santa Maria Beach. Featured amenities include a business center, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
6,3 Good
Pros: The rooms were nice and clean.
Cons: The food was awful and the service was average.
7,5 Good
Pros: Good position 2 minutes walk from the beach and 10 minutes from the center. The structure is new and the rooms quite big.
Cons: Even if we booked the full board we had to pay for water and drinks and everything to eat outside lunch and dinner. The cleanings were not that good. Poor breakfast quality and variety
9,6 Excellent
Pros: Simplicity. Cleanliness. Style.
Cons: Nothing at all
9,6 Excellent
Pros: Everything!!! The Hotel, the beach, the food, the people, the music, the island and Cape Verde in general.
Cons: The extra costs.
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1
R1 516+
Overview
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When you stay at Odjo d'Agua in Sal, you'll be on the beach, within a 5-minute walk of Santa Maria Beach and Santa Maria Town Square. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Fantastic hotel!!! Very beautifully designed building, lovely spotless room with balcony and comfortable beds, 2 nice pools. The staff are very friendly and helpful, the breakfast buffet has a good variety and the ocean views in the restaurant are priceless. Absolutely loved it and can only recommend to stay here if your budget allows it!
7,5 Good
Pros: I liked everything. The food was excellent , the staf fantastic and location of hotel , very central and pleased, I will return again and i will take family and friens to enjoy this amazing place, so piecefully and with so good people. I love it.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: Amazing location and excellent staff. Everybody is very polite and helpful. I loved the swimming pool, the beach bar and the hotel restaurant. The bedrooms are spacious and have a little terrace.
7,5 Good
Pros: Elegant room,cleaning every day, restaurant with the view on sea,pool very nice. Also took the massage in the spa-very good and relaxing.
7,9 Good
Pros: Great location.
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8,3 Excellent (181 reviews)
3
R3 636+
Overview
With a stay at Riu Palace Cabo Verde in Sal, you'll be by the ocean, within a 5-minute drive of Santa Maria Beach and Nazarene Church. Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, multilingual staff, and luggage storage. Free self parking is available onsite.
4
R3 117+
Overview
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Hilton Cabo Verde Sal Resort is a picture-perfect vacation spot in the colourful town of Santa Maria.
While here, you can spend your day exploring destinations like the local fishermen pier and the extinct Pedra de Lume volcano within minutes from the hotel.
Enjoy the pristine white-sand beaches, spend your days by the pool or take advantage of the hotel's Eforea Spa, beauty salon and 4 restaurants and bars. The hotel is also home to the only Casino on the island and if you are a fan of watersports, you can visit our nautical centre for some diving or sailing adventures.
Every large and stylish guest room has comforts like complimentary WiFi, a 40-inch TV, a mini-refrigerator and a walk-in shower. Step onto your private balcony for beautiful views over the sea or hotel pools. We also have suites with a living area and dining table – perfect for families.
6,7 Good
Pros: The staff was kind
Cons: I got food poisoned
5,4 Okay
Pros: Spacy
Cons: Too much meat on the bufee
9,0 Excellent
Pros: Great breakfast. Very helpful and friendly reception staff
Cons: Restaurant and cleaning staff very noisy - they speak very loudly with each other.
9,2 Excellent
Cons: No bath robes in the bathroom
9,2 Excellent
Pros: Food; rooms; gardens
Cons: Nothing
9,6 Excellent
Pros: The staff was amazing. The waiters, the receptionists. The access to the city were very easy you can walk along side the beach or go by taxi. The view and the facilities were amazing. The live music every night excellent. We had such amazing time during our stay.
Cons: At the end of our stay one of the guests during the night was smoking in the room and the general alarm went off. All guests were awake due this incident. As our room was accessible on our last night when I arrived the room one of the alarms was off and when the maintenance went to see what was the issue I was informed the alarm was activated due my perfume. Note that before I went inside the stateroom attendant went to our room for the evening service.
10,0 Excellent
Pros: - location - staff - infrastructure - bar and music show
5,0 Okay
Pros: Great breakfast, great location and facilities. One of the best beds I've slept in a while. The rooms are lovely and has everything you need. Was very impressed by the quality of the Internet service, specially in Cape Verde. Staff from the pool bar are just great!
Cons: Very poor attention to detail and very inconsistent staff, some are great some are just terrible. The worst in my opinion is the front desk. Badmouthing clients in Cape Verdian creole....unlucky for them I understand and speak Creole. Very very bad attitude, almost like they are not working in hospitality in one of the top chains in the world. Complementary items in the room were almost never restocked and every time I would ask for them to be restocked they would say that they would do it but 90% of the times I would have to go and look for someone from staff to get these. The Bounty restaurant is terrible during the day and great at night, not the chefs (those are always great), but the staff. This was my first and last stay in Hilton, the price is just not worth it.
9,0 Excellent
Pros: Very good breakfast, a lot of options! Private zone in the beach. Staff super kind and helpful.
Cons: The blinders in the bedroom block a lot of light, but there was still some coming from the top. No vegan options in their menu.
1,0 Poor
Pros: - Location - Breakfast and dinner buffet - Swimming pool - No animation - Hotel shuttle
Cons: - The hotel was good but staff was disorganized, we had a lot of troubles with payment, AMEX wasn't accepted and MASTERCARD didn't work. - Fire alarm rang 5 TIMES in 12 days of holidays (3 times in the middle of the night) with no explanation and excuses. - The hotel was good but the open spaces are subjected to flooding during rainy days. - As regards the restaurant, dishes and cutlery were often dirty and the waiters took so long to serve the drink even though the dining room was empty. - About rooms: laundry cleening rough and approximate, in a five star hotel is not accepted to find spots on towels and hair in bed sheets. - They offer us 2 bottle of water only the first two days. Then they give us only 1 bottle. - On the beach you can't walk without being attacked by street sellers: too intrusive and insistent. - The last day we had an attempted theft in one of our suitcases in the room probably during the room cleaning
