Name: Vila Baleira Porto Santo
Address: Sitio do Cabeço da Ponta, Porto Santo Island, 9400-909, PT

Vila Baleira Porto Santo

Madeira · Portugal

Sitio do Cabeço da PontaView location

49 reviews shown

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jul 2025

Ian

Beautiful views on the 9 km beach. Can walk to main town by beach. Large food buffet. Food was fine. Restaurants within walking distance if you are not dining there. Many services.
Very relaxing

8/10

Excellent

10 Jul 2025

ALBINO

This hotel is comfortable with a great beach. It is great to relax, enjoy the simple nature in this island and relax on a short vacation trip.

Leisure Family_with_children

8/10

Excellent

29 Dec 2024

Ugis

Premises was excelent. A little bit more attention from staff might be required

10/10

Exceptional

23 May 2024

Naoemia

The one lady that was on day shift helped us get a different room because my wife has asthma so we were moved to a very nice room in the main building.

Leisure

8/10

Excellent

09 Mar 2023

Kevin J

Location is the best on Porto Santo island. The apartment is showing it's age. The view is fantastic. Staff was great.

Leisure

8/10

Excellent

25 Jun 2022

Linda

Lovely location with a great beach at the back of the hotel. The hotel rooms need to be updated and found the bar area to be quite small for a large hotel, not enough seating area. Food was lovely and staff very friendly.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

04 Oct 2020

ANTONIO

Good time

I have tried this hotel that was recommended by a friend.
Close to the beach and well organized.
Spa with fantastic conditions.
Good service with massages available with decent prices for hotel costumers.
Good food and all staff very polite and helpful.
I will be back in Porto Santo and to this hotel for sure

Self

8/10

Excellent

08 Oct 2019

Manuel

The pool is excellent, and they have a excellent food. The access to the second building is very difficult with babies.

Leisure Family_with_children

8/10

Excellent

17 Feb 2019

Laura

All inclusieve or not

No shuttle bus from boat to hotel. When we arrived we found out that Almost everybody else has “all-inclusieve” bur hotels.com did not give us this opportunity when we booked

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

07 Mar 2018

ole kasper

A big surprise!

First impression not good; a tall building raging far above over the idyllic small town of Machico. But after staying 3 days I,m impressed! For the price for the rooms you really get value for money. Great breakfast! Situated perfect, above the beach and city center, friendly atmosphere, beautiful m surroundings. A lot do do both at and outside the hotel.

10/10

Exceptional

13 Feb 2018

Iain

The Fabulos Vila Baleira Hotel. Porto

Fabulous hotel. The best 4star I've stayed in. Staff.food. facilities all superb.

6/10

Pleasant

24 Oct 2016

Faye

Great location, very outdated and sterile.

This hotel has an incredible location as it is across from one of the loveliest beaches I have ever been to, however, the hotel is NOT GOOD. We were placed in the building across from the main tower. The only way the rooms and hallways can be described is as bizarre. The building has zero character and upon arrival the floors were wet and extremely slippery. The housekeeping carts are kept in plain sight along with the trash bags. The rooms are dirty and give a very cold/sterile feeling. There are no frills in the rooms whatsoever. Our room came with one bottle of water. The safe had no lock on it so was completely useless. The bathroom is dirty and set up in a very illogical fashion. There were also very strange level changes in our room that were very hazardous especially during the evening.

When we checked in we were not given any information about any of the facilities so we were completely clueless as to how to access the beach, get towels, nearby restaurants, etc.

Again the beach is tremendous, and the staff who work at the beach bar/lifeguard stations are more than helpful and friendly. There is a great little bar next door as well.

8/10

Excellent

25 Oct 2015

Maria

The pool and the spa are both great.

8/10

Excellent

11 Jun 2009

Stunning pool

We stayed at this hotel for two nights. We took the ferry from Maderia.The taxi from the port was apox 15 Euros. You can get a local bus into town for 1Euro which connects back to the ferry bus also 1 Euro for your return crossing. The hotel is eight floors high & across the road from the beach.There is an underground passage to the pool & beach. The breakfast varity was good.The room we had (8th floor) was large with a balcony with see views.

10/10

Exceptional

17 May 2026

Nelia

Tudo excelente um tudo incluído maravilhoso funcionários excelentes o valter o paulo o wanderlei o pessoal do bar e principalmente à Maitê .

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

16 May 2026

Magnus

Hotellet har alt man skal bruge for et hyggeligt og afslappet ophold. Rene værelser, god buffet, lige ved stranden, padelbaner, mulighed for at leje cykel og scooter, busstoppested ude foran.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

08 Aug 2025

Alexandra

The hotel is far from a 4 star hotel and needs renovation asap.
1 - The food was bad, 90% of the workers at the restaurant barely spoke portuguese and always replied with a bad attitude when we asked for something. We had to request every single day for small spoons at breakfast for the kids to eat cereals and at some point they even replied they didn’t have any.
2 - at the room, we had water coming from the bath to inside of the bedroom for 4 days and it was only fixed when I mentioned the reclamation book, instead of enjoying our vacation we were worried for 4 days about shower time because we didn’t have enough towels for everyone as they were on the floor to stop the water…
3 - there’s no map of the hotel or schedule of the hotel activities
4 - we had cockroaches in front of our door daily
5 - the bar on the beach doesn’t have a WC and to go to the toilet you need to walk more than 5 min and go inside the restaurant near the pool.
6 - also at the beach bar they announce that we can buy icecreams or bola de berlim - which are not included in the all inclusive - and then they only had 2 or 3 which almost all the kids didn’t like (Solero, etc…).
7 - there are no shadows in the beach and we had to pay between between 25-35€ per day for a combo.
8 - positive: the beach is absolutely amazing and animation team is super nice, cheers to Júlio and Madalena! My kids also loved the girls from Kids Club - Thank you!!

Leisure Family_with_children

8/10

Excellent

27 Jul 2025

Martin

Very good location for 1 week (family,friends) on vacation and/or to spend days/time at the splendid beach. Concept in Vila Baleira with additional 2 Restaurants good. Sport infrastructure for inside/outside activities enough. Prefer taxi from airport to hotel as hotel shuttle is too expensive.

10/10

Exceptional

07 May 2025

Alain

Ancien hôtel très bien entretenu et personnel d’étage très sympathique
A recommander

4/10

Poor

26 Dec 2024

Andreas

Old outdated hotel without service

Very old Hotel. We had an apartment in a building opposite to the main house on a hill. No luggage bring service. No weather protection. How do they handle handicap guests?
Bathroom smelly with mould in the corners. Wind blow everywhere through.
Buildings need urgently full renovation.
Breakfast o.k.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

13 Aug 2024

Pedro

Restaurantes demasiado pequenos ou mal organizados. Oferta de comida feita em poucos pontos o que gerava filas demasiado grandes. Cheguei a desistir de comer por causa do tamanho da fila

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

22 Oct 2023

Tranquillo

L’hotel ha un buon potenziale: ampi spazi, vicinanza al mare. Purtroppo gli spazi comuni, i giardini e la zona piscine talasso hanno bisogno di manutenzione e rinnovamento! La Zarco room per gli snack pomeridiani è un salone SENZA FINESTRE!!Sembra un bunker!! Vien voglia di scappare!
La cucina inoltre è basata su serate a tema: quella Portoghese cui abbiamo partecipato non è stata per nulla piacevole nè invitante: niente addobbi, niente musica e scarso cibo portoghese. Poi 25€ al giorno x noleggio lettini e ombrellone in spiaggia sono davvero troppi.
Assolutamente non un 4 stelle per gli standard italiani!

10/10

Exceptional

21 Apr 2022

Davide

Services available on site, i.e. bike or car rental, tours, gym, swimming pools, etc, restaurants.
All really good.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

09 Nov 2019

Verified traveler

Gran lugar para descansar, playa perfecta para nadar y pasear

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Oct 2019

Robin

Un petit coup charmant

Hotel magnifique, les services sont nombreux à proximités, les emplacements de sports sont très propre.

Cependant le bar de plage au nom de l’hôtel, n'est pas gratuit même avec le all inclus...

Sinon le personnelle est souriant

Partner

8/10

Excellent

21 Apr 2019

Andreia

Serviço excelente, comida muito boa. A repetir

Family

10/10

Exceptional

12 Mar 2019

Verified traveler

Great treat

Definitely recommend this hotel for a relaxing vacation on this peaceful island. Helpful and friendly staff at reception, restaurants and spa. Spa therapist - Sandra - was really welcoming and professional. The heated indoor pool is great when the weather isn´t good. Wifi in room is a plus.

10/10

Exceptional

08 Mar 2019

Sancho

Ótima

A experiência foi ótima. A repetir em pouco tempo.

Family

8/10

Excellent

24 Feb 2019

Sven

Das Apartment hat eine schöne Größe, überall Fenster und (vom dritten Stock) eine schöne Aussicht. Der Balkon ist gigantisch, leider nur mit zwei Plastikstühlen und Tisch versehen, wo zwei Liegen eindeutig Platz hätten.

Das Interieur ist in die Jahre gekommen und könnte modernisiert werden. Gerade bei den Matratzen haben sich die Federn bemerkbar gemacht.

Das Essensangebot zu allen Zeiten war üppig, wenn auch nichts Besonderes.

Der Service des Personals wird hier groß geschrieben. Sie nehmen sich Zeit, können gut Englisch und sind immer anzutreffen.

Das Hotel hat zudem eine große Außenanlage, wo man sich auf einer Liege entspannen kann und Kinder ihren Spaß finden. Der Strand ist sehr gut zu Fuß direkt vom Hotel aus zu erreichen, eine kleine Unterführung führt unter der Straße durch.

Für „Regentage“: das freie Wifi ist top (30 MBit up und down; schneller wer es braucht gegen Gebühr). Es gibt viele deutsche Fernsehkanäle und Indooraktivitäten (Schwimmhalle, Billiard,...)

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Nov 2018

crickethill64

Ich war drei Wochen dort und habe nichts auszusetzen!
Unbedingt mit HP buchen die Buffets am Abend sollte man unbedingt
ausprobieren war Spitzenklasse!!
Bei HP sind auch die Getränke inbegriffen, zudem kann man jederzeit die Wasserflaschen gratis an den Spendern wieder auffüllen!

Verständigung in Englisch unproblematisch.

Absolut empfehlenswert, ich gehe wieder Dorthin!!

8/10

Excellent

30 May 2018

Verified traveler

punti di forza il cibo, lap

8/10

Excellent

31 Dec 2017

Marco

Ottima posizione, resort ricco di servizi

Il resort è collocato nella parte sudoccidentale dell'isola, quella più selvaggia e più gradevole per gli amanti della natura, con bellissima spiaggia sabbiosa, circoscritta da dune eoliche. Camere ampie e confortevoli, si vede il mare da ogni posizione. Ottima funzionalità della WIFI, letti comodi, pulizia ineccepibile. Il resort ha una piscina coperta di circa 15 m, con acqua molto calda, si può nuotare tranquillamente. Il centro Thalassa è posto al di là della strada, verso la spiaggia, ma è raggiungibile con un tunnel, comprende un ricco centro benessere con due entrate gratuite e la palestra, accessibile senza limitazioni. Sempre dalla parte di Thalassa è presente la piscina all'aperto con molti lettini ed ombrelloni gratuiti posti sul prato, mentre oltre le dune c'è la bellissima spiaggia, attrezzata con ombrelloni e lettini, questi a pagamento. Nel corpo centrale c'è anche la sala pranzo, molto ampia, con comodi tavolini. La colazione è molto varia e di buona qualità. Benchè non avessimo all-inclusive, abbiamo cenato tre sere ed il cibo ci è parso di buona qualità, particolarmente il pesce e la paella del martedì sera. Camerieri molto gentili e buffet continuamente rifornito. Molto gentile anche il personale della reception.

10/10

Exceptional

03 Dec 2017

Verified traveler

Trancquilita e relax

In albergo ognuno si puo trovare impegno per suo gusto,piacuto tutto :cucina,bar,vicinanza mare e spa

10/10

Exceptional

23 Oct 2017

Andrea

IL MASSIMO DEL RELAX

Isola fantastica , AMISURA D''UOMO, che offre: IL MASSIMO DEL RELAX , camminate su 9 km di spiaggia, passeggiate e arrampicate di sentieri sui PICHI, panorami mozzafiato, tranquillità, gente del posto cordialissima, un altro mondo nel quale ci vivrei volentieri, cibo ottimo, nell'Hotel Vila Bailera tutto OK. 2 soli suggerimenti: 1) tavoli e sedie al posto di divani e poltrone nelle sale adiacenti alla Hall ...per giocare a carte comodamente; 2) nel cartellone dell'animazione riportare l'attività dei giorni della settimana della serata dopo cena, manca, a mio avviso, un po' più di comunicazione dell'attività dell'animazione, che comprendo e apprezzo, molto discreta; magari gli animatori potrebbero pranzare o cenare nella sala insieme ai clienti.. e da lì impostare alcune attività di animazione. COMUNQUE TUTTO BELLISSIMO !!! SICURAMENTE CI TORNERO'

10/10

Exceptional

02 May 2017

LUIS

HOTEL CALMO COM PESSOAL AFETUOSO

A estadia foi agradável. Todo o pessoal, de todos os setores são simpáticos. Estão sempre com um sorriso e fazem tudo para nos agradar. Gostei imenso.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

21 Oct 2016

Nuno

Recomendo

Bom hotel, funcionários simpáticos

Family

4/10

Poor

17 Oct 2016

Boris

Großes lautes Hotel

leider hat uns das Hotel nicht gefallen! Das Restaurant zum frühstücken war sehr sehr laut! Wir waren froh, dasss wir NUR Frühstück gebucht hatten.
Die Wellness haben wir nicht genutzt, es würde uns die Sauna für 1x 1Std. angeboten mit Bademütze und Badelatschen mit Vorreservierung für irgendwann.
Ebenfalls fanden wir es sehr befremdlich, dass Liegen und Sonnenschirm nur unter Reservierung gegen eine Gebühr von 15 Euro am Tag möglich war.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 May 2016

Verified traveler

Tänne siis uudestaan

Buffettarjonta oli runsas ja riittävä, henkilökunta ystävällistä, palvelu rentoa ja sujuvaa, puutarha ihana, hotellin liikkeet ja retkimyymälä hyvät

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

06 Mar 2016

lisbeth

Dejligt beliggenhed , tæt ved strand og Vandreture

God oplevelse selv om vejret ikke var det bedste , gode spa muligheder og Vandreture og rigtigt fint man kunne låne cykler . Fantastisk sted stille og roligt 😄

8/10

Excellent

05 Jan 2016

Alfred

KJURZ und GUT

Kurzaufenthalt. Weil die Faehre nach Porto Santo am 31.12.2015
fahrplanmaessig nicht fuhr, mussten wir einen Tag frueher abreisen. Die letzte Nacht (ohne dass wir da waren)wurde
in Rechnung gestellt. ABER vielleicht haetten wir das frueher selber merken sollen ...

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Dec 2015

Joaquim

Estadia muito agradável .
Funcionários muito atenciosos. Na receção fomos tratados com grande simpatia.

Family

6/10

Pleasant

10 Dec 2015

Catia

Pequeno almoço

Cozinheiro disse k panquecas eram doces,mas tinham um sabor horrivel nada de doce ??????? , cozinheiro do pequeno almoço muito pouco simpático

Partner

8/10

Excellent

19 Nov 2015

Verified traveler

Badeferie

Boede i suite da vi kun var på øen i 2 døgn. Desværre lå suiten tæt på vej, men udsigt OK- fin service på hotellet;-)lidt slidt hotel.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

24 Sep 2015

Verified traveler

mooie ligging + de hotelservices die je nodig hebt

prima 'all in' verblijf bijna naast het strand ; gelegenheid tot mooie wandelingen ; openbaar vervoer + rent a car + shuttle diensten aan het hotel ; en personeel zeer vriendelijk

Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Jun 2012

C. A.

Für Leute, welche nicht den Rummel suchen!

Die Lage des Hotels ausserhalb des Hauptortes, aber unmittelbar beim Strand gefällt mir sehr. Und bei den insgesamt 9 km Strandlänge findet man immer ein Plätzchen, welches gefällt. Die Leute an der Reception hatten immer ein Lächeln auf den Lippen und waren sehr hilfsbereit! Das Frühstück war inbegriffen und für meine Ansprüche sehr reichhaltig. Das Hotel selber bietet auch einiges mehr, als ich in Anspruch genommen habe (kann deshalb die Qualität nicht beurteilen): angegliedertes Spa, Hallenbad inside und auch ein Schwimmbecken aussen, Verleih von Fahrrädern/Vespas, Abendunterhaltung, organisierte Ausflüge...

8/10

Excellent

13 Jan 2011

Kaisa

Vila baleira thalassa, Porto santo

Far away from the centro, and poor bus connections. Have to have a car or a bike, or be prepared to walk a lot to find food or other services outside the hotel. Surrounding hills and beach are nice! Staff in the hotel is very nice and helpful outcluding the breakfast staff. Hotel and the room are nice and clean.

8/10

Excellent

08 Oct 2010

Stefano

Semplicemente relax

L'hotel si trova a circa metà del lungomare (9km in tutto), ma il bus passa ogni 30 minuticirca e costa 1€ a tratta. Il personale è accogliente ed educato. La camera è spaziosa anche se lo stile non è di certo moderno.
Tramite un tunnel si passa dall'hotel alla piscina esterna di acqua di mare e da lì si raggiunge la spiaggia dorata di quest'isola ed il suo bel mare tranquillo. E' presente pure una piscina interna sempre di acqua di mare riscaldata ed una SPA che offre moltissimi servizi, primo fra tutti la talasso terapia.
Colazione ok, niente di speciale. Pranzo e cena sono invece un po' troppo italiani ed a me piace assaggiare il cibo locale. Al bar vicino la piscina si può però pranzare prendendo dei piatti freschi e gradevoli spendendo poco.
Nel complesso direi che è ottimo per famiglie, coppie e chi cerca sole e tranquillità, ma comunque a Porto Santo solo quella si può avere, perciò meglio quest'albergo che ha un'ottima SPA in confronto ad altri che hanno forse qualche servizio di più, ma che alla fine non danno nulla di concreto.

8/10

Excellent

20 Aug 2010

Verified traveler

Hotel razoável, excelentes estruturas de apoio

O hotel é razoavel, mas fica um pouco aquém das 4 estrelas anunciadas, nomeadamente falta de room service.
Em termos de conforto, os quartos são mal insonorizados para o corredor, e só por sorte, nos calhou um piso relativamente calmo. A decoração é espartana e a TV minuscula.
A oferta de restauração também é limitada com o principal restaurante a servir apenas em regime de buffet e o preço nada convidativo a quem não tenha optado por regime de meia pensão ou pensão completa.

Do lado positivo, a excelente localização do hotel e estruturas de apoio - as piscinas (todas de agua do mar) são excelentes e inclui uma piscina coberta e aquecida.

O centro de Talasso e de Mergulho são também excelentes e constituem uma mais valia para este hotel.

6/10

Pleasant

27 Jun 2010

Carlos F. C.

Hotel Vila Baleira Thalassa

Gostei muito dos serviços do SPA. Por outro lado, não gostei de ser servido em copos de plástico no restaurante exterior, nem do serviço lento por parte de alguns empregados desse restaurante.