Hotel Riu Palace Santa Maria - All Inclusive

Wow we booked this holiday last year, we went on May 8th for two weeks and had the best holiday of our life’s! Let’s start with the pros :- Pros- Entertainment - The entertainment staff who cannot do enough for you and are so so friendly brilliant with the children and we loved the games, my husband and son took part every day!! They made it so much fun!!! Best entertainment staff! We loved the shows in the evening they work so hard. Cleaners- the room was always cleaned and up to a good standard! Front of house - again couldn’t do enough for you Life guards and towel men who got you a bed when you needed one which wasn’t often! The towel man was always happy! Restaurant staff- morning noon and night weee all amazing the food was fantastic and something for every one! Going earlier is always better and we managed to book in each restaurant some more than once! Not sure what people mean about the app crashing never happening to us! Gardeners and maintenance staff again happy friendly and hard working ! All the staff at this hotel work incredibly hard! Pool is being cleaned glasses are being collected! The pools were never over crowded and we always managed to get a bed!!! I cannot fault the hotel! We did the shark tour booked it with Dammy on the beach give your money back to the locals and not tui. We had a fantastic trip and our driver Eddy was lovely we were collected in an open back truck which wasn’t often amazing! Cape Verde 🇨🇻 is the place to be the Rui place should be first choice as it’s the best!!! We highly recommend this hotel and we would come back! Cons -: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!