Sangenjo Travel Guide

Sanxenxo, like a busy touristy village, has a huge offer of accommodations that range from private bedrooms to hotels, several discos and pubs and lots of restaurants. I'm sure everybody will find one that is appropriate to their likings. There are also lots of shops, mainly selling beach related stuff.

I've been to Sanxenxo more than once, but never stayed there. The most recent visit was in July 2009, while we were spending summer holidays in neighbour beach Playa de Montalvo (info on my Portonovo page). Basically we visited Sanxenxo to enjoy their great choice in restaurants, mainly fresh fish and seafood.

Sanxenxo is, on my opinion, a little village that grew into a busy beach resort (on summer months). It seems to have grown a lot around the beach area - a large main road with a nice pedestrians walk along the bay, but so overcrowded with buildings.

The beach's sand is white and thin and water is crystal clear and calm. But this is not, by far, my favourite beach in that area. If you have a car and drive around, you will find beautiful little unspoilt beaches almost deserted ... worth getting into your car, driving around and discover unspoilt paradises. I’m sure you won't regret at all.

For more information on this area beaches' or even karting, see my Portonovo page.

Along Sanxenxo’s main street you will find loads of restaurants, some of them with open air tables overlooking the beach. I guess I may say that there are restaurants for every taste and that range from budget to expensive.

Another area with good restaurants, along with fantastic location, is no doubt the marina. In this particular case, there is also another advantage: if you arrive in Sanxenxo by car, parking is hard. But the marina has a huge parking space (paid), so you will easily park your car and walk a short distance to one of their restaurants.

Sanxenxo, as well as other places in the coast of Galicia, is renowned for the fresh fish, seafood and octopus. A though decision to choose between the fresh fish, delicious seafood or amazing octopus!

Marlima restaurant was also recommend to us as one of the best and frequented by both locals and tourists. We went to the marina restaurant, but while in Sanxenxo noticed there is also another restaurant from same owner on the inner streets of the village.

In my opinion, the marina restaurant has the great advantage of easily parking your car and also enjoying a fabulous night view, as it was a good night and we chose an outside table. As we visited during the week (July 2009) and this restaurant is the last one in the row of restaurants in the marina, it was very quiet and there was no need to book in advance.

Favorite Dish: We tried the varied seafood for two, which consists of 5 types of seafood, served separately. I don't know the exact name in English for the kind of crabs we had, the first is big and the second type is medium, so they serve 2 for the later and one of the first mentioned. Afterwords, comes the plates with the mussels and the cockles, both cooked in steam. Last, but not the least, they serve the clams, covered with a tasty and thick sauce. All this food was very good and fresh. The deserts are also very good.