Sol Dunas Resort

I stayed at the Sol Dunas hotel for a weeks winter sun in January. I went with my cousin for her birthday. We done all inclusive for 7 nights. Overall the hotel was very good and I would highly recommend. Pros: - The rooms are like mini apartments with kitchen facilities and en-suite bathrooms for each bedroom - Taxi from the airport is €15 - The air conditioning the room does both hot and cold air - There is a choice of 3 restaurants to eat in for all inclusive. The food in the restaurants were nice and well seasoned - Evening entertainment is provided daily - For birthday celebrations a cake is provided over dinner Cons: - the blind in the bedroom and kitchen could not rise up as there is no string. Maintenance were able to fix it days later - The water in the bathroom was initially cold and we had to call reception twice to fix it - There’s no bin in the kitchen - Maintenance take a long time to get to your room and resolve the problem - Breakfast options are limited for vegetarians - The bars don’t provide snacks such as crips or nuts. They only provide drinks and ice cream - Public toilets are always very dirty as if they are not cleaned regularly - Tips: - booking for the restaurants can be done up to 4 days in advance. I would advise you to book your reservation at the grill as soon as possible as they get booked up quickly - When booking excursions, don’t book with TUI it is cheaper to book with the locals in Santa Maria or at the beach. For a tour TUI charge €75 whereas locals charge €25 -

Came to Cape Verde as a family of five on the 7th Jan 2019. Very quick check in and room was massive! We had an appartment room with two bedrooms and a cot for our 18 month old. Also had kitchen and living area and two bathrooms. The over all look of sol dunas is beautiful. The pools are lovely and clean and the children’s pirate boat pool was amazing for my 18 month old. The water park was also a massive hit with my two other children age 5 and 7. Kids club was amazing my children loved the staff running it. Night time entertainment was fantastic. Kids were entertained all night which left us relaxed and able to have a drink. The lion king was the best show. Beach is a short walk and again is beautiful with clear sky blue waters. Spent the day at bikini beach club which was an amazing day out and they were really good with the kids. Overall the food isn’t that great at the spices restaurant. No children’s options apart from spaghetti bolognaise. You really have to book the grill or the Italian for a decent dinner. Over all we loved our stay here and would return. Xx

Went to here for 2 weeks for Xmas 2018, with my husband and 2 children, Arianna & Geraint (5 & 6).We had a 2 bedroom apartment, 2 bathrooms over looking the main pool. Fab position. The hotel and ground are spotless, very well kept. The food in the grille (the restaurant needs cover like the Italian around it, as nothing worse than being cold and being wind swept whilst eating your food in the evenings. The Italian was lovely, Spices a different story, (if you couldn't get a reservation for the restaurants and had to eat here, kids being kids wont eat the spices food, (they should always do chips, twice my kids had to go to bed having not eaten anything, as they didn't like what was on offer in Spices, at Dinner time., (kids are kids at the end of the day). Always serve chips, so at least there is something there they will eat. Alcohol selection was fab, even having Prosecco mmmmmmmmmmm. I cannot emphasis how fabulous the kids club and entertainment team are at this hotel, they are all just amazing. They made our holiday, 1st time we have ever allowed our children to go to hotel kids club (and boy the kids didn't want to leave there). Every day at kids club the itenary of things to do was out of this world. Then the shows these guys done in the evenings (Lion King, Mamma Mia, and my son Geraint was Olaf in Frozen the kids xmas night show, the thought, the dedication from them all, made our holiday. Was quite sad leaving them all, they become our friends at the end, beautiful, friendly, professional people. Sol Dunas you are very lucky to have them working for you, as they have made our holiday with you, very memorable, brings a smile to our faces, the things these guys done, nothing to much trouble from them. Well done kids club and Entertainment team. Now the things we found bad.OMG OMG OMG freezing pools, (that is a definate NO NO), can you not see the pools are mainly empty. They need to be heated. (This could be the reason that we never return, everyone was on about it). We could not have any fun in the pool with the kids even they didn't want to go in there, and even if they did after half hour they would ask to go back to the apartment for showers and wrap themselves up, to warm up. No one likes cold water. The golf buggies and vans driving around, drive to fast, especially as there were quite a few kids around. Clean towels arrive to late, most evenings our towels were arriving when we were leaving to go out for our meals, and as I didn't take towels on holiday, as they were supplied, we found this very awkward. The flies, bees in the grille and around the bar area. aarrgghhhhhh. We loved Cape Verde, the people are lovely, the island is beautiful, weather fab. But the only way we would return, is by reading that the pools were heated.