Hotel Central Santa Maria

Location: 4111 Rua Das Salinas, Sal, Sal, Sal, CV

Star Rating: 4 Stars

Property Type: Hotels

About this Property

Important Information

Policies

Check-in: 02:00 PM - anytime

Check-out: 12:00 PM

Instructions: This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). To arrange pick-up, guests must contact the property 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property. The credit card used to book the reservation must be presented by the cardholder at check-in along with matching photo identification. Other arrangements must be coordinated with the property prior to arrival.

Amenities & Facilities

• Free breakfast
• Boat tours nearby
• Nature reserve
• Front entrance ramp
• Proposal/romance packages available
• Carport
• Hot springs nearby
• Electric bicycle charging station
• Free WiFi
• 24-hour front desk
• Luggage storage
• Continental breakfast
• Concierge service
• Wheelchair accessible
• Snorkeling nearby
• Surfing/bodyboarding nearby
• Sailing nearby
• Scuba diving nearby
• Free breakfast
• Multilingual staff
• Smoke-free property
• Wedding services
• Grocery/convenience store
• Tours/ticket assistance
• Rooftop terrace
• Airport transportation - pickup (surcharge)
• Beach towels
• Boat tours nearby
• Free continental breakfast
• Hot springs nearby
• Mosquito nets
• Couples/private dining
• Designer stores on site
• Shopping mall on site
• Public winery tours
• Nature reserve
• Proposal/romance packages available
• Banquet hall
• Carport
• Fishing nearby
• Casino nearby
• Horse riding nearby
• Swimming nearby
• Water sports equipment
• Coin laundry on site
• Visual alarms in hallways
• Sign language-capable staff
• Surf lessons - nearby
• Secured bicycle storage
• Bicycle parking available
• Bicycle repair station
• Electric bicycle charging station
• Change of towels (on request)
• Upper floors accessible by stairs only
• Well-lit path to entrance
• Accessible airport shuttle
• No accessible airport shuttle

Rooms Available

• Classic Double Room, City View

  1 Double Bed

  269-sq-foot individually decorated room, located on the top floor, balcony with city views

  
  

  Layout - Separate office

  Relax - In-room massage available

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Entertainment - Plasma TV with satellite channels and DVR

  Food & Drink - Free bottled water

  Sleep - Blackout drapes/curtains and bed sheets

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, shower/tub combination, designer toiletries, and towels

  Practical - Safe, laptop workspace, and phone; rollaway beds (surcharge) and cribs (surcharge) available on request

  Comfort - Fresh towels (on request), air conditioning, and daily housekeeping

  Accessibility - Doorbell and phone notification

  Non-Smoking

  Room/bed type depends on availability at check-in

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Safety deposit box
  • TV
  • Telephone
  • Air conditioning
  • Desk
  • DVD player
  • Video games
  • Private bathroom
  • Satellite channels
  • Wardrobe or closet
  • Toilet paper
  • Bottle of water
  • Shampoo
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Designer toiletries
  • Blackout drapes/curtains
  • In-room massage available
  • Free WiFi
  • Room and bed type depend on availability check-in
  • Bedsheets provided
  • Soap
  • Local maps
  • Guidebooks or recommendations
  • Laptop-friendly workspace
  • Restaurant dining guide
  • DVR
  • Doorbell/telephone notification
  • Location - top floor
  • Change of towels (on request)
  • Desk chair
  • Office
  • Printer

• Classic Double or Twin Room, 1 Double or 2 Twin Beds, City View

  1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

  269-sq-foot individually decorated room, balcony with city views

  
  

  Layout - Separate office

  Relax - In-room massage available

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Entertainment - Plasma TV with satellite channels and DVR

  Food & Drink - Free bottled water

  Sleep - Blackout drapes/curtains and bed sheets

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, shower/tub combination, designer toiletries, and towels

  Practical - Safe, laptop workspace, and phone; rollaway beds (surcharge) and cribs (surcharge) available on request

  Comfort - Fresh towels (on request), air conditioning, and daily housekeeping

  Accessibility - Doorbell and phone notification

  Non-Smoking

  Room/bed type depends on availability at check-in

  Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)

  • Safety deposit box
  • TV
  • Telephone
  • Air conditioning
  • Desk
  • DVD player
  • Video games
  • Private bathroom
  • Satellite channels
  • Wardrobe or closet
  • Toilet paper
  • Bottle of water
  • Shampoo
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Designer toiletries
  • Blackout drapes/curtains
  • In-room massage available
  • Free WiFi
  • Room and bed type depend on availability check-in
  • Bedsheets provided
  • Soap
  • Local maps
  • Guidebooks or recommendations
  • Laptop-friendly workspace
  • Restaurant dining guide
  • DVR
  • Doorbell/telephone notification
  • Change of towels (on request)
  • Desk chair
  • Office
  • Printer

• Classic Single Room, City View

  2 Twin Beds OR 1 Double Bed

  269-sq-foot individually decorated room, balcony with city views

  
  

  Layout - Separate office

  Relax - In-room massage available

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Entertainment - Plasma TV with satellite channels and DVR

  Food & Drink - Free bottled water

  Sleep - Blackout drapes/curtains and bed sheets

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, shower/tub combination, designer toiletries, and towels

  Practical - Safe, laptop workspace, and phone

  Comfort - Fresh towels (on request), air conditioning, and daily housekeeping

  Accessibility - Doorbell and phone notification

  Need to Know - No cribs (infant beds) or rollaway/extra beds available

  Non-Smoking

  Room/bed type depends on availability at check-in

  Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)

  • Safety deposit box
  • TV
  • Telephone
  • Air conditioning
  • Desk
  • DVD player
  • Video games
  • Private bathroom
  • Satellite channels
  • Wardrobe or closet
  • Toilet paper
  • Bottle of water
  • Shampoo
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Designer toiletries
  • Blackout drapes/curtains
  • In-room massage available
  • Free WiFi
  • Room and bed type depend on availability check-in
  • No rollaway/extra beds
  • No cribs (infant beds)
  • Bedsheets provided
  • Soap
  • Local maps
  • Guidebooks or recommendations
  • Laptop-friendly workspace
  • Restaurant dining guide
  • DVR
  • Doorbell/telephone notification
  • Change of towels (on request)
  • Desk chair
  • Office
  • Printer

Guest Reviews

• elena (8/5): - Centrale è pulito, a pochi metri dalla via principale di Santa Maria, personale disponibile e ottima colazione!
• Enrica (8/5): - Molto centrale, vicinissima alla piazza e alla via principale. Personale gentilissimo e disponibile. Unica pecca: assenza di phon e mini frigo nelle camere.
• Manuela (8/5): Beschreibung Hotelaufenthalt am 3.8.25 - Komfortables sauberes Zimmer, gutes Bett, Weckdienst und Taxibestellung ohne Probleme .Koffer wurden aufs Zimmer getragen (2 Stock), Frühstück lecker, Personal sehr hilfsbereit und freundlich
• Nonye (10/5): - Not aesthetically all that, but very clean and comfortable and very central to every where you’d want to go. The staff are the most amazing people I’ve come across. I had a casual chat with Kipsa( I hope I spelt it well ) and mentioned it was my birthday. He got the kitchen to make me a birthday cake which made my day and made me feel at home. Would 100% recommend
• philippe (8/5): - Beau séjour. Bon accueil de tout le monde .super petit déjeuner. Merci pour le changement de matelas .a 3 minutes de la plage et des magasins, des restaurants .
• Ivaldo (2/5): - Ok
• Manuel (8/5): - Buenno Hotel et Gente Muy Simpatica
• Benjamin (8/5): - Etwas abseits vom Strand gelegen, aber ruhig. Zimmer geräumig. Netter Innenhof. Freundliches Personal. Frühstück: nicht angenehm, der Raum ist nicht für die vielen Gäste ausgelegt. Wenn man kommt, findet man nur dreckige Tische vor, überall Verbotsschilder, was man nicht darf, aber niemand bemüht sich, neuen Gästen einen sauberen Tisch zuzuweisen, man kommt sich nicht wie Gast sondern wie ein Bittsteller vor.
• Bjorn (10/5): Enkelt men trevligt hotell - Hotellet var trevligt, personalen var jättetrevlig. Den enda lilla nackdelen var väl egentligen att det inte fanns tillgängligt någon bra plats att sitta utomhus på.
• Steven (10/5): - Great hotel for the price. Marble staircases and landings with good breakfast. Five mins to the beach and the restaurant strip. For good restaurant (shabby outside) out of hotel go right and first left. Then it’s on the left. Lots of other restaurants in area. Never had bad meal. Hotel will collect from airport (20 min ride) for 20 euro. Recommended.
• Heinz (8/5): - Central gelegen aber einwenig zu laut (Türen) keinen Kühlschrank im Zimmer!!
• Andrew (8/5): Pleasant stay - Very pleasant staff, clean hotel with fresh and simple styling, and lovely breakfast.
• Mike (8/5): Hotelli keskeisellä paikalla. - Hotellin sijainti loistava. Aivan pääkadun läheisyydessä ei kuitenkaan turhaa hälyä, joten silti rauhallinen. Sisään ja uloskirjautuminen nopea. Aamiainen suppea mutta hyvä. Vihanneksia ja hedelmiä kaipasin. Suihkun paineet heitteli ja lavuari ei vetänyt kunnolla olivat suurimmat puutteet.
• G7172BRjohnk (8/5): Good tourist hotel. - Good tourist hotel. Very friendly and helpful staff. Decent breakfast. Good geographical location for exploring, but it is in the middle of a residential location where the locals are a bit noisy during the night, as are some of the stray dogs. Other than that, no complaints at all.
• MissEssi9 (8/5): Lovely small hotel in a local street in Santa Maria. - Me and my daughter had a nice time in this small and lovely hotel. It is very central in Santa Maria. In only 5 minutes you walk to the pretty beach, where you have many nice places to eat or drink and visit shops. You can rent your material to go surfing, you can see where they catch the fish or you can rent a bike. The weather is just perfect in december! I liked the hotel because it’s in a local street and not in a desolate place with a big hotel. (Most of the guests were Dutch, Scandinavian or German.) The only small negative point is that it can be a bit noisy with children outside. But we slept fine every night. In the area are several small supermarkets. The people in the hotel are very friendly. Our room was nice and tidy. The small breakfast is good. The WiFi worked very well. I would recommend this hotel if you want to be close to the beach and restaurants and don’t need to much luxury. Thank you hotel Central for this nice Christmas in your hotel!
• Francisco (2/5): - Liked the location. The place is clean. Did not like dishonest hotel management charging twice for my room under the excuse of having a guest for about half hour. After complaining the next day, a refund was requested. Will never stay at this hotel again. Expedia should make note. The double room charge was fraudulent.
• filiztekalti (4/5): Sal - Not very good experience and from cleaning the rooms with bleach and poor quality but quite expensive. The breakfast is poor and terrible with a serving lady very rude, acting she is giving the food free!! And not caring, no smile but rude and very late bringing in coffee and eggs and if you miss something it take loooong time to get it. They should be leaving the basic things out on the table so people could take themselves. Even the so called juice is not juice, a sugary drink she insist call juice. Very simple breakfast becomes a late something, Lots of children yelling outside and crowded people screaming but it is near the centre of Sal, maybe it is what it is. Very nice people in the city not violent and mostly calm.
• Peter (6/5): Etwas spartanisch eingerichtet - Das Personal ist äusserst nett: (Réception, Frühstücksservice, Zimmerpersonal). Die Einrichtung ist etwas lieblos und spartanisch. Kein Kühlschrank im Zimmer. Die Vorhänge kann man nicht genügend öffnen und die Dusche ist unpraktisch, so dass viel Wasser neben die Dusche auf den Fussboden spritzt. Preis- / Leistungsverhältnis okay.
• Alvaro (10/5): - Muy limpia , nueva , buen precio y muy cerca a todo. Ubicada en una calle tipica del pais donde te puedes sentir un local.
• Daniel (10/5): - Det allra bästa var den vänliga och alltid hjälpsamma personalen. Frukost var fin. Bra AC som var mkt viktigt. Rummet med balkong och skön säng var rymligt och trevligt. Några minuter till centrum och stranden. Skönt att vara lite inne i stan där vanliga människor bodde. Tycker mer om dem än oss turister 😊 Wi-Fi fungerade utmärkt på rummet. Inga bekymmer. Hotellets atmosfär var underbar på grund av den kloka o snälla hotell chefen och den fina personalen. Jag var där i 26 nätter och kommer säkert tillbaka
• Jimmy (8/5): - Charming proprty.
• Bettina (8/5): - Das Zimmer war sauber und das Personal freundlich.
• Bruno (10/5): - Gut und preiswert. Neu renoviert.
• Meander21555483439 (10/5): Pleasurable stay - This was my first solo trip and I really enjoyed my stay, the hotel was clean and had a comfortable big bed, staff were super friendly and attentive the cleaners are honest and I have no complaints, the owner has some big renovation plans and I’m excited to see it, I’ll be staying there again soon Thank you!
• María (8/5): - I qill definitely stayed there again in the future.
• Gudrun (10/5): - Good staff and clean. I did miss that there was no shampoo or body soap
• Kereon (10/5): - Very nice staff, and really really good location. I booked last minute (literally the day I landed) so there weren't many options left due to the holidays, but I am glad I chose this hotel! It's walkable to the beach and all the bars and restaurants. I always felt safe as a woman walking alone late at night. I would definitely recommend this place to friends!
• irenat775 (6/5): Hotel Central, Sal Island - I stayed at this hotel for 1 week in September 2018 . The staff was very friendly and helpful. I had a welcome drink upon my arrival. I had a full-board and went with vouchers to their beach cafe. The meals were good and the cafe personnel was very polite and friendly. In the evenings there was a live music performance there. The hotel is located in the center of the place and you can see an authentic local life there. Unfortunately I could not open the balcony and I could not sleep at night due to the great noise outside. The dogs barked till the morning and some local people cried and argued till late at night. The fridge was rusty and did not work. Several times there was no water to take a shower. The Wi-Fi signal was bad in the room. These problematic things were compensated by nice beaches of Sal, nice swimming, beautiful ocean and interesting excursions. I wish I could visit Santa Maria again but I am not sure if I would like to stay at this hotel again.
• TrailBlazer64656 (6/5): Clean room and nice staff. - Clean room, little noisy outside in the nights. Wi-Fi is bad in the room, but very good in the reception. Breakfast five minutes walk from the hotel. You choice from a menu, it was ok. One day the restaurang opened half an hour late. I told the hotel.
• Burnsfun (8/5): Holiday - A lovely hotel in the centre x just a short walk to the resturants and bars and close to a fabulous beach x The breakfast was nice and also a good cup of tea and coffee with fresh juice x our room was a good size and was cleaned everyday with fresh towels and a nice touch folding my pj's x thanks x had a fridge in the room and liquid soap which was nice x a lovely roof top to chill and watch the sun go down x all the staff were extremely friendly and helpful I would definitely staff here again thanks for making our stay special x
• Chukze (6/5): Cosy and friendly hotel for a serene quiet stay - Fantastic choice for a quiet holiday. Professional and warm staff, nice view at the top, close to corner shops where you can get utilities and actuall mix with the locals. It's central enough to get to all parts of the town with a few steps.
• katiegoes (8/5): Good stay - Booked an airport transfer for midnight through the hotel and was greeted at the airport by a friendly driver . Then quick check in . Just what is needed when you have a late flight. Breakfast was in Cafe Del Mar a short walk from the hotel. Breakfast was excellent. The room was basic but with everything you need, table and two chairs, fridge and ac. We only stayed one night because we wanted a pool.
• johannaa869 (8/5): Simple and cosy hotel in the heart of Santa Maria - The standard at Hotel Central is pretty basic but the rooms are of a decent size and everything is very clean and tidy. The hotel staff is kind and service minded and will give you tips on where to eat, what beaches are the best etc. They can also help you book excursions with local guides if you like. We booked 2 excursions at the hotel (island jeep tour and katamaran sailing) which we were very happy with. Cheaper than if we would have booked via our travel agent and better in the sense that it benefits the local economy. Breakfast is served at Café del Mar, just a short walk away, with views of the sea front. At Hotel Central you live in the heart of Santa Maria and get a much more genuine experience of Cape Verde than if you stay in one of the larger complexes outside the city. If I come back to Sal, it is very likely that I would choose Hotel Central again, because of the location and because of the wonderful welcome we received from the hotel manager and staff.
• Mari_Czech_Republic (10/5): We will come back! ;) - Small hotel in centrum of Santa Maria. We could see the life of the local people and to understand this country more than from big hotel with ALL INCLUSIVE. We have been in some restaurants around and organised our holiday by ourself. The staff in hotel was VERY helpfull, they helped us with everything we need. Thank you very much to Betty and other. We will come back! Greetings from Prague!
• tinajokealex (6/5): Cosy and central - We travelled with 3 persons, had a nice suite. Was a quite spacious suite, clean. Friendly staff, nice welcome by the manager with local drink. Location is very central, close to everything, inbetween the locals, cosy atmosphere. 24h reception and security. Good basic breakfast in cafe close by. Minus points: not too good matrasses, they seemed quite old/used. Roof terrace seemed not to be finished yet. Some minor problems of missing blankets and balcony chair were however solved the same day by the staff. We would recommend this of you want to be in the center of santa maria in a nice and friendly hotel (and not in a massive resort).
• josl532 (10/5): A good stay at the hotel Central in Sal - The people who work there, were very kind, they did everything which is possible for the gasts.The bed was good, the rooms also. The shower was not to big, but it was ok. Cleaning was also good. The only thing was it was a bit nosy, we were at the front site, the locals where a bit nosy and also the dogs which barked often. Tip: for tips for all the staff, add a box on the desk/counter!
• carlitow2017 (2/5): Hotel Central Sal Santa Maria Not recommended - Hotel Central Santa maria Not recommended since they are not trustworthy people, Very Poor in Public Relations and Fidelity. rented for seven days they secured the Central Hotel who refunded the value of the five days, given the reason for Illness Return, to date only tells Stories, and did not return the value of the five days.
• 795alettar (10/5): Solo holiday - Really good location - just a few minute walk from the beach and the centre of the town, amazing rooftop terrace in the hotel and friendly and extremely helpful staff. Recommend to everybody who want a relaxing holiday in Cape Verde and want to be close to everything in Santa Maria.
• krzysztofc282 (10/5): Great holidays - My first time in Cape Verde. I am very satisfied with the stay in the hotel. Nothing to complain about. It is close to the beach. People who work there are very friendly :) For sure I will come back !:) Thank You. Chris
• tincan70 (8/5): Lived it - This hotel is not 5 star manufactured resort luxury. It's basic, honest & so friendly. It's less than 5 minutes walk to the beach. The stag are super helpful & the rooms are cleaned & tidied daily. It feels like Cape Verde & I'm so glad I chose that over the "resort" type places. I'd go back in a heartbeat. Careful of the mozzies in the beach cafes, but rooms at the hotel are free if any biters!

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