Roa5sp
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We spend a short week (5 nights) in the Casa de Areia/Praia - at first glace we loved it. Nice location directly at the beach, the room was nice (Apt7) with a view to the pool and beach. ||The problem is more the lack of professionalism of the staff. Cleaning service was not emptying waste baskets, minibar was not refilled, towels were not changed. After a complaint this was just taken with a smile and thats it. |Shower utensils were only refilled after request after 2 days and then never again. The reception staff doesn't help much, too. |Breakfast is ok but nothing special. Available from 8:00 onwards if you leave earlier you won't even get a coffee - like us when we left on the last day. Excursion lunchpacks are also not prepared as in some other hotels. |The Thursday night show you can skip. 70 BRL without drinks per person for a very mediocre show, a mixture of some african, bahian and Samba dances at low level. |Only the capoeira group is really worth seeing but they perform every day on the beach after sunset anyway. The food afterwards is not worth this price. ||The rooms (at least ours) had air conditioning but could hardly be used since it has no windows just wooden shades with open ventilation - so all mosquitos enter and there are quite a few ! Also our room since located in the main building had quite some kitchen smell starting in the morning with breakfast and in the evening when dinner was prepared. The exhaust system seems to be insufficient or defect. No idea how the other rooms in the side building are. ||Wifi is available at no extra cost but slow and unstable. ||All in all- always looking at 6000 BRL which we paid for 5 nights - you will find better options like the new Essenza next door or others. If the price was lower, ok but at this level some more professionalism and care for some details is required. |||||||||||||