Pousada Praia Maria

Air conditioned room, generally very clean. Very helpful staff who spoke very good english.

We spent two nights in Boutique Hotel Praia Maria on our arrival in Santiago, and we couldnt' find a better location. Quiet in the evening, facing the pedestrian main road in the Plateau we could easily reach markets, transport, and museums. Both Eudyce during the day and Devilson during the night shifts were kind and helpful and gave us suggestions, advices and support on all our requests. The breakfast, served in the Kasa Katchupa coffee restaurant just in face of the hotel, was wonderful. We definitely recommend.

They stole our gear! We left our bags at the luggage room to go on a tour, when we came back our camera was gone! The receptionist pretended she didn't know what happened but after a lot of pressure we had access to the footage from the security cameras. In there we could see that she let in a third person and he was the one who took our stuff. The managers didn't want to show up to deal with the situation, they did only after a lot of discussions with the receptionist. When they finally came they assured us they would take absolute responsibility for the situation and cover the cost of the stolen goods. They lied. This was in December and since then we've been trying to get them to cover the damages and they're not even answering the messages. Very bad experience, unacceptable security and negligence on managing an incident. We had such a a good time en cape verde and this experience left a terrible impression, please do yourself a favor and stay away of this place there are so many other nice hotels in Praia.