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The staff was excellent and the apartment is spacious and clean. The pool is nice and the hotel is only a few minutes from the beach. The food on the other hand was very dissapointing. It wasnt always the best quality. Cape Verde is known for its great, fresh quality food, but at this hotel the food was not Cape Verdean and also not Cape Verdean quality. If you go to this hotel, I would say without the food or only do breakfast.

It's a great little hotel. Very friendly staff, always helpful. The hotel is mostly Italian occupied but this was not an issue for ourselves, we found the staff and guests to be great fun. They have a private area on the beach where you can always get a sun lounger and there is a beach bar. If all inclusive you get the basics in drinks. Beer, simple cocktails and common drinks like Vodka, Rum, Whisky, etc. with mixers. The food is good too. Italian favourites like Pizza & Pasta plus various fish and meat dishes. Enough variety for at least a week before you get bored and fancy a change. The beach is great and a short stroll, Santa Maria also a stroll away and it is easy to rent a car or quad bike to tour the island. You can have guided tours but that will cost more and you don't really need them. The island is tiny. You don't need a guide for the shark trip, guides already there a plenty. Just drive there, its free. You don't need to buy special shoes, just as long as you have something on your feet. The locals will try to sell you something at all times, just ignore them \ politely refuse. Watch out for sellers in town, they just make up random prices, especially if you are a new face. So for a guide a bracelet is about 1 Euro, a fridge magnet about 2, a necklace about 5. They will try to sell you these for much higher prices. It is a haggling type shopping experience. The place itself is very safe, no trouble seen, no crime seen, just very friendly people. Even the sellers are friendly, they don't hassle once you refuse but they will try their luck to get a profitable sale. I would recommend for a week away, longer only if you love hanging around the beach and don't really want to do much site seeing.