Murdeira Village Resort

I absolutely love this place. It's so peaceful and unpretentious. The staff are really lovely and very helpful. The grounds are beautifully kept and the food is simple but good. A delight to stay here and although only 6 minutes from tne airport there is no noise.

This hotel was very disappointing. I would not class it as even one star. To start with the food. We paid for half board. Breakfast consists of scrambled egg, tinned mushrooms and there was bacon only on one day. The only cereal was coco pops. Dinner was made as cheap as possible. Also very limited and served with chips and rice every day. The hotel rooms were very outdated and the bath and shower were appalling. The hotel pool actually didn't belong to the hotel, it was the village pool which is used by all the village residents. The toilets didn't have any water in them to flash the chain or wash your hands for 3 days. The hotel is also a small terrace down one of the roads in the village. The spa advertised was just a small shack which was never open. This hotel was such a disappoin**ent and nothing like what was advertised. We expected a half decent place to stay and some nice food. On new years eve they did a buffet which was the only nice meal we had all holiday. The only positive thing I can say about our stay was that the staff were very friendly and tired their very best to make do with the limited resources to their disposal. Sal was chilled and we liked the island itself.

Love the peaceful setting. Staff are lovely.

This is the worst hotel I've ever stayed in. It's no way a 4 star. I've been in a 3 star which had much better service and quality. The staff are very nice but the hotel is crap sorry to say. The breakfast was cold every morning, nothing in the hotel worked, they have no iron to iron your clothes, air conditioning didn't work, phone in room didn't work, fridge and kettle we're broken, ants we're in the beds. They have no entertainment, the drinks and food wasn't good and to make things worse they have the cheek to want to charge people room tax. Stay away from this hotel if your looking for the basics. The electric even cut out one night when I had to wake up to use the bathroom.

This was just bad. Room looked great at first, but the terras had a flickering light - would be fixed immedeately accoring to the receptionist, but never got fixed), tv-remote without batteries (they could fix that), taking first (cold) shower restulted in two broken parts (towel-hanger and shower itself fell down). Then there was the rest: in the info-paper it stated that no reservation of pool-beds was allowed... well all had "some" reservation marks on them like hats/towels/other stuff, but most of them were never used, so the typical annoying reservation system was in place, staff did not intervene and let go so only with some arrogance you could claim a spot near the swimming pool. And then the food. We ordered pizza's, sure the were frozen minutes before. The breakfast was also just heated up canned food. And a funny thing the rooms come with tea-cups and tea-bags, but no water-cooker. We asked, they would arrange it... but of course never did.

all inclusive at half board level. On the hotel beach 4 (four words)! wooden deckchairs and 6 umbrellas... Difficult entry into the ocean over rocks - water shoes required. Overall a boring place - nothing to do here. Older equipment of the apar**ent. The staff seem to pretend they are there for punishment.

As other travelers have mentioned, I only can confirm this place isn’t really worth the money. We first booked two rooms directly with the hotel but have been told there are no rooms left. Yet on Agoda and Booking still were, so we booked them from there. Once arrived we were not really sure we would get the rooms, given their confusing emails, and the lady at the reception was really rude and impolite, ignoring our questions and just laughing and asking for the money. The two rooms (80$ each) were with no breakfast, at the very end of the village, last row, parallel to the highway Esparagos-Santa Maria. Tea bags available but no kettle. All very clean but shower broken, towels worn out, mini fridge terribly noisy and no way to plug it out. Terrace dirty and yeah, I understand u have 500 rooms to clean but hey, we are paying 😄 Swimming pool near this “restaurant” with really unpleasant staff; they asked us to order at the bar, the bar told us to order at the restaurant, they argued, in the and almost obligated us to pay 15€ and find something heated up in the -almost gone- buffet. Anything we pointed on the menu was “finish” or “tomorrow “ , accompanied by a laugh. As my mum suffers from diabetes and HAD to eat something, they agreed for a panini but 15 min later brought a salad… The FOUR,4!, wooden long chairs on the beach are a joke:) Still, if u enjoy wild beaches and do not need un umbrella, head left or right along the cost and you will find a better place. Also: they charge 15€ for a taxi to anywhere, but just exit the village, wait a bit on the main road and vans will stop and safely bring u for 1€ anywhere.

Me and my partner recently spent a week here in December. The staff were really friendly and helpful from the moment we arrived, helping us book excursions, taxis and transfer. We had a lovely apar**ent room which was cleaned daily. We were bed and breakfast, and enjoyed a buffet breakfast each day which had a large variety of choice. We also chose to have dinner at the restaurant a few nights, the fish of the day had to be one of our favourites but there were lots of choices, pizza and burgers were amazing too! Both enjoyed the pool area and think the location of the hotel is perfect, the free bud to Santa Maria is a nice touch. But it’s nice to come back to the more secluded Murdeira and relax away from the crowds. Would definitely recommend!

Okay place, spacious rooms, nice staff