Riu Palace Boavista

This is a late review of this hotel which me and my girlfriend stayed at in October for a week. This hotel has one of the best reception entrances, we had a choice of welcome drink, fresh orange or prosecco, we took one of each I had orange and the girlfriend had prosecco. Check in was rather fast and the receptionist was fantastic and his instructions were perfect for us to find our room we paid for the private pool room. Our room was fantastic the mini bar was great, every couple of days the mini bar man comes round to fill them up we were In the room everytime he came round, he'd be so happy and would make sure he did his best that you got everything you asked for. The maid were also fantastic they cleaned the room brilliantly every day I couldn't fault them one bit. Entertainment was good we didnt really watch as we went in the sports bar and entertained our selves. We also used the spa and got the cape verde massage, which I recomend you do so long as you can bare someone touching your feet (I cant but it was worth it). On check out day you can have the bell boys pick your cases up from your room for you (you have to request this), we didnt do this as our room was only a short walk to reception and didnt see the point, plus all member of staff work fantastic and are really friendly. Would definitely come again

We hadn't stayed at a RUI hotel before but would definitely again. It was a relatively new hotel but the place was so clean and tidy and organised. The booking requirements for the restaurants was a little tricky as you could only book so many at once and they weren't open every night so when it came to a 7 day holiday you were limited. We did request a quiet room which we got put above the entertainment area??! But when we asked to move, we did, albeit got lost on our way as reception staffs directions were not the best! We looked to upgrade to a swim up bungalow villa but these were very expensive. The room we had was lovely, clean, tidy and had alcohol in the room. The view was nice. The beach was lovely and although we didn't go in the sea, looked pretty. We opted to stay on the beach most of the holiday, it was windy at times but its CV! It was enjoyable and we would definitely go back. The hotel was nicely laid out, lovely decor even to the bathrooms. The restaurants had more than enough food and I have never had donuts like that for breakfast - EVER! All the restaurants served fantastic meals, nuts with your evening drinks at the bar and the coffee shop was adorable. Boavista airport was small and a strange airport, like in an outside hut! But seeing the goats wander by when waiting for the bus was sweet.

We stayed at Riu Palace in March, and booked a swim up room, only one downfall didn’t get much sun on our side of the block 46 room no 4604,the room was kept spotlessly clean and all staff are a credit to the hotel.The Africa buffet restaurant was brilliant, plenty to eat and plenty of choice for everyone.We also did the Japanese one which was lovely.No need to reserve any sun beds plenty on beach and around the pools, weather was good windy some days but we found that to be good.Evening entertainment was enjoyable they work really hard even though the songs are mimed, they always come round after the show and have a chat to you which was really nice.There are too many staff to name and thank that really made our holiday,all doing a great job.We did 3 excursions with TUI and found them to be quite expensive for what they was, went on the whale watching and the boat was absolutely crammed pack full of people, we was last to get on the catamaran and unless you get on first you can’t see much.We did book a taxi to and from airport which was brilliant only a short journey but you miss the queue.Thanks Riu Palace for a great and restful holiday, hope to be back next year.