TUI BLUE Cabo Verde

Just back from 2 weeks at this lovely hotel. Superbly clean and modern with excellent facilities. A spacious and well equipped room with a comfortable bed and great bathroom. All toiletries supplied. Dolce Gusto coffee machine in the room and 4 pods supplied daily. Free mini bar also included. Pools very spacious, if a little on the cold side. Plenty of sun beds available at all times. The main buffet restaurant supplied food of a pretty good quality. Lots of fish everyday, but it’s a local delicacy and there’s plenty of other choices. Maybe we’re a bit picky, but it did get a bit ‘samey’ towards the end of the 2 weeks. 2 visits to each of the other restaurants included. First visit to the Italian Casa Nostra was excellent with a tasty pizza and excellent calzone. However on our second visit, the calzone was significantly undercooked, with soggy dough and a runny, virtually raw egg when cut open. Riviera pool bar served attractive and tasty lunchtime food. All drinks fully included with lots of choice, including a good selection of cocktails and spirits. The staff are fantastic and could not be faulted. Overall, highly recommended and we would return for a further visit.

If you want a quiet and totally relaxing stay this hotel is for you, pool areas are very quiet and sunbeds very comfy also round bed pods are great always got a sunbed no matter what time of day also there is an outside hot tub in spar area, good hotel sunbeds on beach with shade and wind breaks. Rooms are massive with very large 6 foot double bed, kettle with tea / coffee topped up daily also fridge topped up with 4 beers water orange and cola every 2 days, safe provided as well, good tv and wifi in rooms and if you sit near your room at pool you can get very good wifi signal. Very clean hotel and all the staff work very hard to provide a 1st class service. Entertainment is low key but ok. Food is very good with good choice but some items are lukewarm. Beach has plenty of sunbeds and the bikini beach has a cove where it is safe and good for snorkeling. bikini beach club was never to loud for us and was good to have a drink in at night (not free drinks but free to enter) When we booked we requested a pool view balcony room but on arrival was given a ground floor garden view, reception staff were very good and was given a balcony with pool view within 48 hours thank you. There is a botanical garden about a 20 min walk away with rescue animals well worth a visit only 5 euro entry fee, they also have horse riding from here. Santa Maria the small town has improved in the last 2 years and is a 10 min taxi ride away but hotel does have a free shuttle bus on some of the days of the week. walked it on the beach on day and took 2 hours to walk. All in all a very good chilled and relaxing stay in this hotel and i can recommend it.