Luxury Hotels in Santiago
Cape Verde
- Best overall
- Barcelo Praia Cape Verde
- Beach
- Pestana Tropico
Tripplo’s selection · Founder: Axel Hernborg · Updated 14 September 2026
2 hotels compared · How we choose hotels · No paid placements
How we ranked these hotels
2 hotels looked at for this destination: 2 ranked above, 0 more we recommend, none, none never added.
The Google and Booking ratings for these hotels are based on a combined 4,365 reviews reported by the sources. This is not the number of review texts Tripplo has analysed.
How guest ratings, hotel class and facts inform our selections.
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Why this position: Highest guest score of the 2 hotels we rank here — 9.0 from 839 reviews. Leads the ranking: a higher guest score than #2 (9.0 to 8.4).
Barcelo Praia Cape Verde scores 9.0 on Booking from 839 reviews and 4.7 on Google from 490, and guests rate the location 9.3. They praise the breakfast, the rooms and the service. It is a city hotel: there is no beach on site, and Praia is a working capital rather than a holiday town.
Why this position: The largest body of guest feedback on this page: 1,656 reviews, averaging 8.4. Rests on more guest reviews than #1 (1,656 to 839), at a slightly lower score (8.4 to 9.0).
Pestana Tropico scores 8.4 on Booking from 1,656 reviews - the deepest review base in Cape Verde - and 4.4 on Google from about 1,380. Guests rate the location 8.8 and single out the beds and the breakfast. It is an older hotel than the Barcelo next door, and reviews are more mixed on the rooms than on the service.
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Most common facilities
- Free WiFi (2 of 2)
- Pool (2 of 2)
- Bar (2 of 2)
- Gym (2 of 2)
- Airport shuttle (2 of 2)
What these hotels do best
- Pools (2 of 2)