I stayed in Vela Branca with a friend in May/2008 and our welcoming couldn't have gone worse: a brazilian guy was complaining he had been stolen while in the room. "I hope it won't happen to us", I thought. But in fact it did. Two days later my shaving machine was gone from where I left it, to be returned in the last day by a sorry employee, and after I having said I wouldn't pay the bar expenses and would present complain in the police office. The pool was in construction and most of the hotel was closed because they told me it was low-season. The only good thing was the restaurant, with so-so food. The employees where either thiefs or rude. So, never again!
