The marina now has laundry facilities - one washing machine and one dryer. Mrs. Pimentel the mother of the marina manager also provides a laundry service.
There are no launderettes in town.
Paula's restaurant, up the hill, is a pick-up and drop-off point for the local laundry service. A little expensive but worth it if you have just crossed the Atlantic!
Lages is a very nice little town.
There are however no big supermarkets on the island. There are 3 stores that are provisioned every fortnight by boat. So the supply of fruit and vegetables sometimes runs low before the boat arrives every second Wednesday (with stores stocked the next day). Meat is frozen; fresh meat is available at a small but excellent butcher in Santa Cruz.
Armazem Helio's (aka Florcash Lda)
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It is now possible to pay at the marina with credit cards, Mastercard and Visa accepted. Multi Banco as well. And of course cash. There is a bar that overlooks the harbor, also has a small deli service. Good wifi in the bar. There are hot showers (3 for men and 3 for ladies, free for marina customers) as well as clean toilets. There is one washing machine (4 euro per load) and one drier (I forgot how much it was) both onsite.
Two supermarkets up the street. All paperwork is done in the port, look for the grey building in the sea-can area of the port, English is spoken. I really liked Flores, plenty of nice short hikes.
Update on Lajes, Flores. The last 5 meters of the inside pier has collapsed, leaning towards the entrance channel into the marina. This will have to be broken and redone, no schedule has been set for it yet.
The longest pier that usually took 3 1/2 boats of 50 feet was damaged in this past winter and was taken out.
This leaves only one space for a 50-foot boat in an almost 50-foot boat space. The only alternative 6-meter finger piers, 4 or 5 of them. Since construction, there is still no allocated bathrooms for the marina. You must share a public bathroom that is also used by fisherman, and port goers. No hot water.
Still no diesel available in port. The restaurant that served refreshments to the sailors is closing the end of May.
Now a 10-minute walk up the hill is required for lunch and supermarkets.
First thing when you arrive and check in at this marina, ask the nice gentleman at immigration for a weather report compared to the shelter this port. He knows the particulars of the shelter (or lack thereof) vis-a-vis the weather in a way that larger weather forecasts cannot assess. He will tell you if it’s safe to stay off if you should push on to a safer port.