Hotels in Brazil

This hotel lived up to every positive comment written. Beautiful room, great service and food. Incrediable views of beach and very, very secure. The only 2 compliants I had was the quality of the beds themselves were poor. For a luxury hotel and given all the other wonderful amenities, the beds are rock hard. the other concern was the outrageous charge for Wifi, $27/day!!!! Given free wifi is avaialable throughout Rio, I found this charge outragious plus Porto Bay offers free wifi at their other location, just not in Rio...robbery!!! Its unfortunate because everything else was top notch. From the welcoming sparkling wine, to the special Brazilian coconut treat delivered by the manager to my room that evening to the nightly chocolates on my pillow and the great quality breakfast every morning. Around the corner is a great beauty salon to get a $20 Brazilian Wax performed with surgical perfection, but avoid getting your nails done there. It was a disaster. Porto Bay Rio is located right on iconic Copacabana Beach. IGreat location, great service.

The location was good, room was nice, staff helpfull and spoke good english. The bartender in the lobby bar was very serviceminded and really put an effort in when mixing drinks, with excellent results. Good place to stay.

The Cocacabana palace was clean, the pool was refresing, it's located near the beach, and the hotel staff was friendly and accommodating. The beach was a little seedy and there were a lot of beggars on the beach. Ipanema is definitely the nicer beach. My friend also had his wallet pick-pocketed a block a way from the hotel. Regardless, I would recommend staying at the hotel, because it is an amazing hotel--even Queen Elizabeth has stayed here. Just be careful any where you go in Rio.

We spent two nights at the Novotel in February 2013. the room was great, large enough for two with two surfboards and a few bags from 6 weeks of vacation. The service was great- they let us check in at 10am (we had the first morning flight into Sao Paulo) and also a late check out as our flight going home was at 11pm! No fuss when we asked, the reception staff simply checked if it was possible and told us it was fine. The hotel is within 10 minutes walk from the wonderful municipal theater and the old city (Monastary Sao Bento etc..). We also went out for dinner and a show at the Brahma, which is walking distance (more or less 15 minutes via Pr, Republica). The hotel's gym is big enough however, there were no towels and the air conditioning didnot work very well. It is the reason I rated "4" for the maintenance of the hotel. Everything else was great!

This was my second stay in the hotel. I find the location very good if your main action area is Jardins. Not so good for romantic stays, the room is very small and there is no pool but the location is great. The staff is very helpfull, ready to do extra work to help. Rooms are clean but very small. Nice breakfast. Would definitely return to this hotel again while.

The hotel is located on Avenue Paulista which appears to be the main commercial street of Sao Paulo. It has a subway station out front and plenty of restaurants nearby. The hotel itself was extremely well presented with bar and restaurant facilities. I didn't sample the restaurant beyond breakfast but can comment that breakfast was reasonably extensive and catered for most needs. Bar prices were reasonable (about US$5 for a beer) and free wifi was a bonus. Be prepared for expensive cab rides though. My ride back to the international airport cost $140 Rials - about US$80) for a 24km ride!

Very large room with wooden floor and two balconies. We loved our stay. The only glitch was that we were late 5 minutes to the breakfast and we weren't granted not even a fruit or yoghurt to take to our room...

A fine hotel with some of the only free WiFi around. Good restaurant too.

Very nice, except that in this 2-room suite (bedroom and living space with mini-kitchen and fridge) the carpeting needed to be replaced and the couch needed some serious cleaning also. Location is great, staff were great, b'fast was great, internet was free. Room service was quick and great.

There are two things that they don't tell you when one is entertaining travelling to Salvador i) the climate can make the rooms in the hotels, even 5 star hotels, damp and smelly and ii) don't walk around on the streets - you'll get mugged. The Othon was a delightful respite from problem i). Problem ii) will take a lot more effort to sort out, but even now Salvador as a destination is still worth the risk.

Generally a very good choice if you want to lie by the infinity pool and enjoy a bit of R&R. My only real niggle is that some of the bar staff on occasion do not give first priority to serving the guests. Whilst I am sure polishing glasses and moving stock around is vitally important, it is not AS important as serving the customers. Better management in this direction would help!

Very nice hotel, a bit from the airport and the center of Salvador. I honestly didn't care though. It was not really any good beaches around, there were some small with chairs and unmbrellas to rent, however the hotel pool was good. I would say the hotel got so good for us because of the staff there. They were extremly helpful and always went over what they were expected to do. It was some places in the close by to eat at but not too much of a choise. However if you took a cab for maybe 15 min you could get into the center and to Bahia Marina pretty comfortly.