INATEL Porto Santo Hotel — Hotel in Porto Santo

I travel for work 6 months of the year in Europe and US. I had the luck of staying in 4 and 5 stars hotels in the main business capitals. In Porto Santos I have stayed in Pestana Porto Santo (2x) Luamar (x2) and Vila Baleira (x1). After a friend recomendation, in 2016 I have tried Inatel Porto Santo. In January 2017 I was booking my staying here again just to be sure I got the place. First, the rooms: better than Luamar and Vila Baleira slightly worse than Pestana. The rooms are generous and they were refurbished recently so everything is new and things work properly (AC, mini fridge, tv (this can still be improved) wifi, etc). The common areas (dinning room and bar) not great but enough and ready for people with movement limitations. The pool is big and the kids playground offers several option protected by the shadow of trees. Second: you can choose the meal regime: just breakfast, breakfast and lunch and the 3 main meals of the day included. Drinks are always charged separately (except fro breakfast) and this is were the hotel is better and any other of the 3 above: home made food that puts you at your mother dinner table. The variety is limited, but every single option is just amazing. Forget the industrial type of all inclusive food... this is another thing: is regional (Portuguese) and fresh. The other big plus is the service and staff: they really take care of you, not only because it's their job but because they wasn't you to feel good, and if you are traveling with you kids this is a big point to take into consideration. Downsides: lack of activities (day and night) and they deserve a better parking space. Rather than that, one of my favorite hotels and a great hidden secret of...

We have stayed in INATEL PS for 10 nights. We were 3 adults and 2 infants. We have stayed in Vila Baleira (4 stars) and Pestana Porto Santo (5stars) in the last 4 years and to be honest I did not missed then at all. ||We opted for the lunch and dinner include despite the several negative comments about the food. It was a good choice: there were always 2 choices (meat and fish) and a buffet of salads and deserts (drinks were not included). The food was real home food which made irrelevant the enormous variety of other all inclusive hotels.||Therefore, although is true you have lesser choice the quality paid off.||For kids the hotel is brilliant since it has a big outside playground and the pool is also big with a section with lower deep.||The rooms are good with wifi, television, mini fridge and A/c (the hotel was recently refurbished).||The staff is very friendly and willing to help. We also used the laundry services which were inexpensive (great when you have kids).||Although it does not have a beach right outside the perimeter of the hotel, it will take you (carrying the kids, beach apparel, food and toys) 7 minutes walking. The advantage is that the beach is normally empty which is a great plus.||The only downside is the entertainment, which is not available, nevertheless the island is full of events that will keep you entertained and for those days where you just want to rest there will be no noise between you and your dreams.||I will for sure return next year! It is a...

While we were visiting Madeira in September 2016, we booked a ship from Funchal to the nearby island Porto Santos on September 15 and returned the next day late in the evening. We stayed in Inatel Porto Santo Hotel, a spacious, quite new, clean and rather inexpensive hotel at walking distance from the sea, but about 15' taxi drive from the harbor. We had a spacious bedroom, in fact a bedroom and a big room with a small kitchenette, TV set etc. Apart from the sea we also enjoyed the large swimming pool which was actually all for ourselves as there were not many visitors in the hotel. The lunch was in buffet form, varied with an overall very friendly service (as was the case at the reception!). The breakfast next morning was fine.||||We spent some time at the "top attraction" of the island, i.e. the very large and popular sandy beach, something they don't have in Madeira.||We could check out in the late afternoon, in time to take the bus to the small town's center where we enjoyed a folkloristic celebration of the visit of Christopher Columbus, more than 500 years ago!||||In such a short period there is not much to see or do on the island and we still wonder whether the visit had an added value for us who have seen so many beaches before. If you like to travel by ship between Madeira and Porto Santo it may be worth to do it and if one is lucky one might see whales...