Featuring free WiFi, an outdoor pool and a sun terrace, Pontao Hotel offers accommodation in Santa Maria. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. Every room is equipped with a private bathroom.
Joseph
Belgium
Well located. Clean. Great staff. Decent breakfast.
Located in Santa Maria, Hotel Morabeza offers accommodation with 3 outdoor swimming pools. The property has a fitness centre, game room, 3 bars, free WiFi and a 24-hour front desk.
Nav
United Kingdom
close to beach and town centre, but very quiet/peaceful
Located 150 meters from Santa Maria beach, Hotel Dunas de Sal is set in a garden with 2 swimming pools. It features a spa and a gym, and Sal International Airport is 18 km away.
Situated in Santa Maria and within 100 metres of Praia António Sousa, Angulo House has an outdoor swimming pool, non-smoking rooms, and free WiFi throughout the property.
Ouril Hotel Julia is set in Santa Maria, within 1.8 km of Praia de Igrejinha and 300 metres of Parish of Our Lady of Sorrows. This 3-star hotel offers free WiFi. The hotel features family rooms.
Raquel
Germany
The Ouril Hotel is super well located, on the main street of Santa Maria. The room was super clean and comfortable and the staff was just lovely.
Boasting a terrace, bar and views of city, Ocean Suites is situated in Santa Maria, 100 metres from Praia de Santa Maria.
Dereck
United Kingdom
The Ocean Suites was such a delight to stay at. The staff were amazing and friendly. The entertainment was varied with diffent genre's of music on most nights.
The food options were good and competitively priced and off excellent quality.
I stayed in the Santa Maria suite which was beautifully decorated in local culture themes, ornaments and pictures.
A stones throw away to the beach and other local attractions......
Situated 300 metres from Parish of Our Lady of Sorrows in Santa Maria, Porto Antigo Hotel BB welcomes guests with a restaurant and bar. Rooms have a TV.
Anaïs
France
- nice swimming pool
- nice apartments
- nice location
- nice little beach juste in front of the hotel
Hotel MiraBela is a 3-star bed and breakfast located in the centre of Santa Maria and within 100 metres from the beach. Free WiFi access is available. Each room here will provide you with a balcony.
Lina
Lithuania
Perfect location, cozy place with awesome terrace, good breakfast and a very welcoming and professional staff. Thanks for letting me stay and even take a shower late before the flight!
Located in Santa Maria, 400 metres from Praia de Santa Maria, Hotel Central Santa Maria provides accommodation with a shared lounge, free private parking, a terrace and a restaurant.
Ouril Hotel Julia is set in Santa Maria, within 1.8 km of Praia de Igrejinha and 300 metres of Parish of Our Lady of Sorrows. This 3-star hotel offers free WiFi. The hotel features family rooms.
Das Zimmer und die Lage sind absolut hervorragend!
Featuring free WiFi, an outdoor pool and a sun terrace, Pontao Hotel offers accommodation in Santa Maria. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. Every room is equipped with a private bathroom.
Well located. Clean. Great staff. Decent breakfast.
Facing the beachfront, Hotel NHATERRA offers 3-star accommodation in Santa Maria and features a garden, shared lounge and restaurant.
Great location, big rooms, good breakfast in morning
FAQs about hotels in Santa Maria
On average, 3-star hotels in Santa Maria cost £49 per night, and 4-star hotels in Santa Maria are £110 per night. If you're looking for something really special, a 5-star hotel in Santa Maria can on average be found for £209 per night (based on Booking.com prices).
The average price per night for a 3-star hotel in Santa Maria this weekend is £63 or, for a 4-star hotel, £104. Looking for something even fancier? 5-star hotels in Santa Maria for this weekend cost on average around £177 per night (based on Booking.com prices).
On average, it costs £60 per night to book a 3-star hotel in Santa Maria for tonight. You'll pay on average around £87 if you choose to stay in a 4-star hotel tonight, while a 5-star hotel in Santa Maria will cost around £159 (based on Booking.com prices).
The best things about Santa Maria were the friendly local...
The best things about Santa Maria were the friendly local and the beautiful in crowded beaches.
The only things that weren’t great was the 2 hours it took to get through passport control at the airport and that not everything in our hotel was working properly
David
United Kingdom
8.0
Scored 8.0
Very nice town, beautiful, clean.
Very nice town, beautiful, clean. A lot of restaurants and nice bars. Go to restaurants that´s not on the mainstreet and you will find the best food and the best prices, for exampla "Camara Camara", they had the best tuna and other fish. Bom Petisck is good. Bar restaurante Bia has very good grilled meat, great red wine and very nice service.
Buddy bar has nice drinks and so do Brazil that's right down on the beach.
Visit the town/village Palmeira, it's adorable and go to Salinas, the salt lakes. It's very easy to find taxi.
Malin
Sweden
8.0
Scored 8.0
The Antigo apts are located in a little oasis of beautifully...
The Antigo apts are located in a little oasis of beautifully landscaped gardens beside the beach, in my opinion the very best part of Santa Maria. There is a covered market to where fruit and veg can be bought. We only used the cafe attached to the apts & Sal Beach Bar, where food was good. There are more several bars with music but I can't comment as we didn't use them. Not much else in Santa Maria - Sal Island isn't very affluent
RICHARD
United Kingdom
8.0
Scored 8.0
What we liked:
We loved the weather and sandy beaches.
What we liked:
We loved the weather and sandy beaches. It was hot however with the constant breeze it was just right.
The hotel is located literally at the beach which is a really good thing.
Marley Bar at the resort is a must visit to chill, drink and eat.
Taxis from the resorts to Santa Maria are about 6 euros and my suggestion is to stick with the one and the same taxi driver as we did with our many trips to Santa Maria. Taxi drivers all operate on whatsapp and if you got the ride you liked then stick with it. It pays off when you're go shopping for fish as the driver will walk with you and you won't be "constantly bothered with buying some souvenirs" from other locals.
If you're one to get to see the Sal Island go and choose GUS travel.
They're very knowledgeable and nothing is a bother when they show you the island.
On the less good side:
Food in the hotel was hit and miss and in our view the locals should focus on what Cape Verde has best to offer which is fish, fish and fish and ditch the European food. Luckily we did not go all inclusive so we have many more options.
Mosquitoes are really annoying and nothing repels them, so take a mosquitoes net with you
If are in Santa Maria 1st time, do not get overwhelmed by all the locals trying to sell you something, after all they make a living from selling things to tourists.
And lastly travel insurance is a must. The healthcare is accessible for all but hospital miss even basic stuff. If you require special medicines if you get sick, best is if you could take them with you, otherwise you might need to cut short you holiday and get the travel insurance to get you back home early.
Piotr
United Kingdom
4.0
Scored 4.0
The beaches are beautiful but it's impossible to walk the...
The beaches are beautiful but it's impossible to walk the streets without being literally harrassed by owners of shops trying to sell you something. I understand that they're trying to make a living, but insisting that you "just" take a look at their shop, trying to call you back to their shop, literally shouting to you at the streets to "stop" and to "wait" is just unacceptable. While I was walking on the streest, I didn't spend a single minute without being approached and harrassed by someone.
They say "Cabo Verde, No Stress" but they pressure and attack you in such a form that you end up not buying anything, even if your intention was to buy something in the beginning. I'm from Turkey where we have a similar "seller approaching you" culture, and I've been to Morocco and Tunisia as well where similar stuff happens, but this was just too much for me.
From what I understand, these are generally foreigners who come to Sal to sell stuff, the pure locals of this place are much frendlier and calmer in general.
If it weren't for this people, I'd like to have stayed more, or I'd probably even return someday, but just because of this behavoir I'll never return to Santa María. If you want a calmer (and much more beautiful) place, just go Tarrafal on Santiago island.
S
Selim Suman
Turkey
6.0
Scored 6.0
Too much touristed. Too dry.
Too much touristed. Too dry.
Visit some of the other islands of Capo Verde. It's easy to take a flight to an other place and have a nice holiday. It's much more green at Sao Vicente and Sao Antao.
The resort is very clean — I’ve never seen such attention to cleanliness at any resort.
The food options were quite good — even for a veggie.
There were plenty of daybeds and loungers available so I never had to get up early to claim one.
The beach and water are beautiful and the perfect place to have a drink watching the sunset.
It was also a nice bonus to have free laundry facilities available on site.
The location was good as it’s an easy walk into Santa Maria on the sidewalk along the beach.
Very convenient and excellent location, in 10 mins walking you can easily reach the centre of Santa Maria and only 2 minutes walking you can find a very cute beach and beach bar facing the ocean. Surf, kite surf and diving schools in the area. Loredana and Filomena have been the best, so helpful and caring whatever I needed and making sure I was having the best time, would definitely choose again this accomodation for my next visit.
The staff are friendly. The hotel wasn’t overcrowded which was nice as all 10-15 guests could use the swimming pool throughout the day without bothering each other.
We never felt unsafe in Santa Maria but the hotel had two security guards.
The receptionist can help book a taxi or different adventures.
We needed to check out early because of our flight and the staff packed some simple breakfast for us the day before.
Value for money of the accommodation is very good. It is simply furnished, but has everything you need in an apartment. The location is wonderful with a view of the beach and ocean. The complex has a pool. The main street and the main beach of Santa Maria are not far away. Micol and Lucia were very friendly and helpful before and during the stay (thank you!). We had a very relaxing week.
This place was exactly what I was looking for. The hotel is made up of a numebr of smaller buidlings, with a lot of greenery and flowers all around. The pool is excellent with plenty of chairs, a number of small, private beach areas with one right in the old port (the "porto antigo"!), very good breakfast, and an excellent central location for the bars and restaurants.
I had a great stay at apartment of Antonio and his lovely wife. The place was clean, bed was comfortable. It’s a new building with its own water tank so you can be sure to have running water even during outage (pretty common in Santa Maria). The location is convenient and there’s a big supermarket just around the corner. Recommended 💯%
Clean, mostly quiet street, easy walk to beach.
Booking was not updated but I stayed in this property for two weeks.
To clarify listed amenities: There is no air conditioning or dryer.
Views are that of a typical Santa Maria neighborhood.
Loved this hotel. Great room. We enjoyed the restaurant. The fresh fish was great. Lovely pool in the sea.
Spent a good week here. Right by the town so close to all the bars and restaurants in Santa Maria.
Amazing location on the beach and close to Santa Maria. Full of charm and character.
Lots of space and great cooking facilities.
Marina was a great host, always happy to help and super welcoming
I took a group of men to Cape Verde for the 1st time. The hotel is a perfect location for almost everything we did. The staff were very helpful as well
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