Spa Hotels in Santa Maria

The best hotel in the whole island of Sal, except for Riu, is Hilton. Unfortunately, there is no Riu at the time of booking, but Hilton is very new, the decoration is very beautiful, and the facilities in the room are very modern. The hotel swimming pool is very large, the beach is outside, the greening is very good, the photo is beautiful, but the room is a little far from the beach, only half of the sea view room.

We had a fabulous week here. Helpful staff that all worked so hard. Lovely room, cleaned daily. Good selection of drinks in the room, replenished regularly. We mostly ate at the buffet, good selection of lovely food, something for everyone. Evening meal does get busy, plenty of room to sit but a bit busier round the buffet, my advice would be to get there when it opens. We ate one night at the steak house, it was nice but I wouldn’t rave about it. The main bar served everything we wanted and staff came and took orders from the seating area too. Lovely coffee from the coffee bar. This hotel and the area around it gave us everything we wanted from this holiday, we will be back!

Thanks to everybody at the hotel for a wonderful 10 days. really could not fault it - quite near the main town -nice friendly little Portuguese bar nearby - and shops - we had B+B which was perfect. good pool for adults and kids alike. No sunbed wars thankully :-) Santa Maria is certainly more vibrant than when we went 5 years ago - Highly recommend this hotel as a good base to explore.

Nice winter Sun Break. Found reception staff rude when asking for help. Had to ask twice for an extra blanket Rooms typical Riu Brown wood a bit outdated and need upgrading. Cleaning staff worked hard Food was great especially the Asian Mandalay restaurant Neon and White Party were immense. The entertainment staff work so hard. Disappointed that the beach was not direct and you had to walk (not far) but got accosted by people trying to sell you trips which was a bit off putting Drinks very limited for an all inclusive. I was a bit worried about D&V which had been noted in previous reviews but my husband and I were fine. Overall nice break and I love Riu hotels but we will not be going back to Cape Verde. We have been twice previously to Boa Vista which we preferred.

So after having 2 villas booked for over a year the day before we fly out we get an email to say we no longer have the villas we paid for but have all been split over a few rooms. So my sister and her family of 4 and myself and my parents we a family of 7. So we get to the hotel and are told that myself the family of 7 are in a 1 bed family room obviously we wouldn’t fit so eventually we got split into 3x 1 bedroom rooms. Obviously not great i was split from hubby and 2 of my boys having to run back and forth with toiletries but hey ho we managed. Our rooms were ok i was eaten alive by mosquitoes 🦟 and had to get antibiotics but i was the only one out of the family of 11. To be fair the rooms were near everything we were close to the pools and buffet restaurants. The kids loved the pools and we made the best of what was a not great start. Most of the staff were amazing and done anything for you. I did book a year ago a cake and the restaurant to be told nope it hasn’t been done and that they couldn’t fit us in anywhere because everything was full. The restaurant booking system was a faff but we were lucky to be given the VIP because of the inconvenience of no longer having our villas. We loved the bikini beach even though food was a 2 hour wait and didn’t have a lot on the menu as ran out it was still the best place to eat. We also loved the Italian restaurant :-) So after 3 days we were told we could have our villas we were ao happy to get what we paid for and be together as a family. We moved and they brought our bags to us eventually settled in and the kids loved it right on the beach front small pool it was great. We were able to order room service as vips and it was hit and miss but we wouldn’t use again as had maggots in our breakfast 🤮 the drains with sewage overflowed twice while we were there to but by then we could only laugh and drink 😂 NO STRESS 😎 So all in all i wouldn’t go back but after everything and believe me ive not listed everything we actually had a great time. The staff well most were so friendly, food was ok drinks were good and the pools were fine too. Also wanted to say that apparently there was a system muck up that made our villas not available and i did feel for the staff as it wasn’t there fault and alot of errors happened the week before xmas. We arrived xmas day

Always excellent, staff are awesome, food is top class, white party was fabulous 👌. The bedroom is large with four optics in the room, very comfy bed too. This is our 3rd visit, and our favourite restaurant is the Italian by far which you have to book on to the Riu app which is easy to do. The entertainments team is second to none, like a cruise ship standard, they are so smiley and happy. The pools are tired, I have mentioned before. They need to close one, re tile it, mend the table in the pool, then do the other pool. Tiles are missing and just needs the five star bits it is missing and needs upgrading. The sunbeds are tired and seat pads very worn. Everyone works very hard, and must shout out to the wonderful capuchino coffee bar too.

Just returned from Sal having spent 7 days at Halos casa Great hotel all staff from management to cleaning staff work very hard to make your stay enjoyable . We stayed on b/b the breakfast very good full English and lots of other choices all good quality, can’t comment on the lunch and evening meal menu we dined in Santa Maria each evening. Rooms very nice and cleaned thoroughly daily by the lovely cleaning ladies who always had a smile and greeting , got to say the most comfortable bed slept in abroad (memory foam mattress) king size. Very chilled around the pool during the day drinks at the bar good quality , you can even get the local brewed bitter on tap only problem the glasses are a bit small. The entertainment team worked very hard in the bar on an evening , we enjoyed a couple of shows mainly done in Italian but nether the less very entertaining. Mainly Italian guests at the hotel but all very polite and friendly. We will be definitely returning to Halos casa got to give a special mention to the barman Kevin he was a great laugh . Thankyou for a nice relaxing week, Abrigada pa bo morebeza