Hotel Ponta Delgada

Very kind & discrete personal motivated to welcome you and to help you with any question. Very good breakfast overall: very good coffee machine, at least for espresso, always some fresh fruits ready to eat, a number of local specialities and recipes, excellent home-prepared cereals with nuts, interesting (homemade?) marmelades, a local tea, local cheeses and cakes, only a couple but very good bread varieties. We had normal rooms not very large but comfortable, in line with the descriptions, the beds are excellent and I enjoyed falling in it every night. It was Christmas so we found a very kind and long handwritten Merry Christmas note and a sizeable box of chocolates which were really good!

We were unlucky that the Jacuzzi was down a few days but it's understandably not easy to get it repaired just between Christmas and New Year's Eve... The sauna and steam bath are small but we were almost the only ones using them. The steam bath seemed to not work properly, burning your feet with boiling water and not feeling hot otherwise. Maybe a local preparation, the fresh drinks at breakfast are freshly pressed juices mixed with water so they miss the kick of a pure fresh juice, but it's remarkable at the same time to have only this kind of preparation and no industrial juices at all, and some creative combinations like carrot-orange or ananas-mint.