Aug 25, 2025
Excellent 5staes - Amazing experience.
Very knowledgeable guide (Daniel)
Well worth the money
Fully insured and booked through Edgar @ the lighthouse Santa Maria
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Jul 10, 2025
Amazing - We booked our tours via Edgar Piras on the beach at Hotel RIU Santa Maria, he sits by the lighthouse every day 10am - 4pm he is such a lovely young man, very helpful and will always be available to help you what ever you need, good restaurants, bars, shops he will advise. Our full day island tour was amazing and our guide was fantastic, we did so much and was given so much information about the island and the main town as well as the development from Shanty Town to buying their own property. I cannot recommend Edgar and his team enough, they are all truly fantastic.
I also book subs diving and turtle walk with him, it was amazing and we go home with the most unforgettable memories of Sal, of Cabo Verde and especially the people. We will be back one day.
Thank you Edgar and your team 5* all day long.
Hakuna Matata
NO STRESS
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Jun 18, 2025
Excellent service and experience! - Thank you so much Edgar Pires for making our Cape Verde holiday so special 🇨🇻
We all LOVED the Safari Island tour in our private Jeep 😎 What an amazing day….lemon sharks, salt lakes, blue eye etc….. it was all stunning, breathtaking, and interesting.
Our guide was knowledgeable and an excellent driver on the difficult terrain. He was also a brilliant photographer, but we found that the photographs we were offered, although excellent, were overpriced.
Our teenagers also booked separately dune buggies and Jet skis - at a discounted price from Edgar 🤩
Highly recommend Edgar Pires…friendly, knowledgeable, helpful and reliable. A LEGEND 🌟
Contact Edgar by WhatsApp before you travel or meet him at the lighthouse on the beach (10-11:30) at RIU Palace Santa Maria.
No stress 😎😎😎😎😎
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Jun 9, 2025
Only use Union Tours when visiting Cape Verde 🇨🇻 - Edgar you made our holiday absolutely unforgettable. Genuine and honest guy with a true interest in making the best choice for individual needs. I would recommend everyone to use Union Tours. Five stars isn’t enough, the knowledge and enthusiasm is incredible. We did 3 trips, the private island tour including lemon shark experience, blue eye and salt lake… compared to booking with TUI where each are trips separate! We did the half day Sodande catamaran cruise, fantastic for a family, the energy on board was dynamic! We also did the ebike guided tour, this was truly amazing. Memories were made because of these wonderful trips, and we didn’t have to remortgage the house to pay for them! 😜incredible value for money, can’t recommend enough ⭐️🌟⭐️🌟⭐️
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May 19, 2025
Island Tour. Excellent customer service from Edgar - I was in communication with Edgar before we arrived in CV. Organised our island tour. Excellent knowledge and communication. Helder our guide was brilliant. We had an amazing day.
Edgar even arranged for a taxi to take me to OSPA. A credit to your company.
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Jan 17, 2025
Union Tours - 1st class! - What a great day with our guide Helder - a lovely guy. He gave us a really informed, interested and interesting tour of the island and made it a lot of fun. He was patient and flexible to our needs throughout, giving us more time in some places when we wanted it. The lunch stop off was excellent too.
Highlights: the shark bay and salt mine swimming/floating, and the blue eye bay.
Helder gave us an insight into life on the island too and some history and thoughts about the culture, how things are changing as more visitors come.
An Excellent day and I'd really recommend.
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Dec 29, 2024
OUTSTANDING SERVICE !!!! - When you get fantastic service, its a great feeling !! And this is exactly what we got with our booking !! Booked through Edgar Pires, just at the lighthouse at the RIU Palace. Great guy. Very knowledgeable, not pushy in the least. Contact him before hand on Wattsap, and he sends you a mine of useful information before you arrive.
Half day tour was excellent value for money. Many other types of tours available.
Would recommend to anybody, and will definately use again on a return visit. Many thanks Edgar...
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Oct 4, 2024
Awesome Day!!! - Awesome island trip with Union tours, booked via Edgar,at Santa Maria,lighthouse,infront of Rui Palace Santa Maria. Absolutely awesome day doing the island tour with Grace. This guy was top notch. Very polite and considerate on our tour. He knew the island so well, took us to “ the eye” ,mirage, salt flats. We stopped for a drink and ordered lunch. Spot on!! Then the Lemon sharks and the salt lake. A fab day and we would really recommend this tour agency!!! Top class. Thanks so much guys!!! Edgar and Grace are an asset to this company!!!
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Aug 7, 2024
Great experience - We arranged our tour through Edgar, his knowledge was impressive, and his price for the private tour was around 50% cheaper than TUI's price.
During the tour, we visited the famous blue eye, the lemon sharks, the salt pits, a mirage, and some other beauty spots, along with getting lunch. We had a great day riding around on an open back pickup truck and bought some lovely souvenirs.
As part of the tour they take photos which you are not obligated to purchase, but the price was do cheap, that we did purchase them.
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Jul 23, 2024
Union tour The island tour ! - We had a full day tour booked with Edgar for two cars with a total of 13 adults and 2 children
Only 11 of us made the trip Edgar had no problems amending the booking as soon as he was informed why some had dropped out
The tour was brilliant seeing the blue eye in clear skys ( don’t know if Edgar got rid of the clouds ?). Seeing the lemon sharks swim between our legs
Bobbing in the salt
Seeing and being told sights around the island of importance to the people.especially shanty town and how it is being removed and new low cost housing provided
The tour was great value the guides were first class the offered photos at the end are well worth it and the content was brilliant
Thank you from the park family and friends
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