Djadsal Hotel, All inclusive Santa Maria, Sal
Santa Maria beach, 500m from town. Noisy day and night
This Sal hotel is an Italian holiday camp with pasta, pizzas and
Italian wine included in the price. It has hotel rooms and beach
huts. It is built around a small swimming pool. It is tatty worn
and unfinished and somewhat lacking in charm. Prices from £259
per person for a week. Used by property sellers offering subsidised
trips. So you may get a hard sel that you were not expecting.
It has Internet access, a safe deposit, massage and a club for
children. Volleyball, mini golf, pool aerobics, table tennis, billiards
and theatre are offerred but may not be available.
The hotel is now closed
E from Scotland was not pleased
"Our hotel the Djadsal Holiday Club looked like a multi coloured
shanty town with depressing rooms and a cloudy pool not fit for
swimming in. Initial impressions were not helped by a porter watching
us struggle up the front steps with our bags without offering to
help. Since we had 5 nights there we decided to move next door to
the 5 star Crioula. Even this hotel would struggle to achieve 4
stars in Europe. "
E from Kent found it a curate`s egg.
"Back from a week at the Djadsal. Good stuff: The beach - great
sand and swimming Weather - Hot and sunny - bit windy though. Friendly
hotel. Ok stuff: Hotel room - clean but nothing to yell about. Food
and drink lots of very average and overpriced cooking. Bad Stuff:
Grotty pool and pool bar (stinky and lots of flies) Beach path badly
lit and covered in broken glass Markupmen talking loudly entertaining
possible clients (totally ruining a romantic meal). Hotel shower
-low water pressure...
P from Sussex moved out
"The Djadsal hotel would be ok if you want a noisy, lively stay
and don't spend any time in your room. The food, staff and beach
are fine. The pool is unheated and was cold when we were there in
November. The disco is very loud indeed, and almost relentless from
11am until well after midnight on some evenings, and the only place
you can't hear it is on the beach. We hated this aspect so much
that we moved hotels at our own expense because the big tour operator
would do nothing for us - even in the better rooms around the pool
you simply cannot avoid the noise ."
C from Italy found it grubby and unfriendly
"The hotel has bungalows and a few superior rooms in the main
building. About 400 very basic rooms. The public areas are scarcely
cleaned by hosing down. It is all inclusive with mainly Italians.
It is on the beach but 1km from the shops and restaurants of Santa
Maria. Service people lack courtesy and the shows are poorly educated.
Rooms are slightly grubby. Gastronomy an unchanging buffet of poor
quality with no variety. The creams and sauces are left too long
in the heat. Drinks are only suppliedin microscopic plastic beakers
and you have to pay for local alcoholic drinks. Sport & Entertainment
consist of a small room with a discotecque and a larger theatre.
The pool is wide but shallow and without sunshades. Room standard
in bungalows is poor without a/c just fans that do not always work."
