Hotel Vila dos Orixás

This place was incredible. Food was great. Gorgeous rooms and villas. Beds are large and comfy, AC works great. Super clean. Very secluded area. You’re about a 30 minute taxi to the main town, so be prepared for that ride. WiFi was spotty on our trip but they did good fixing it when there were issues. Would absolutely go again

For many of the obvious pluses, there were, sadly, equally obvious minuses on the flip side||+ Location on the Fourth Beach, far from the thronging crowds in the centre of Morro de São Paulo. |- A bumpy 25-minute ride on the hotel shuttle to somewhere different to eat||+ Lovely array of loungers, canopied beds, hammocks etc on a beach almost entirely used by hotel guests |- At high tide there is only a small strip of sand; at low tide the beach looks more like mud flats, the waves breaking hundreds of metres from the shore ||+ Very attractive bungalows in absolutely gorgeous, well-maintained gardens, with outdoor gym and beautiful shaded pool|- Rooms set up for hotel publicity, a triumph of Instagrammable design over functionality ||+ Lovely eating area used for both breakfast and dinner that manages to look appealing by day and at night. Very good breakfasts and some very good dinner dishes|- Some dishes were rather uninspiring, and at times the service was infuriatingly poor and inattentive - Gisele a very honourably exception ||We had a very long and torturous journey to get there from Salvador (inevitable when winds rule out the Catamaran crossing) and the ‘welcome’ we received was as perfunctory as some of the service we later received. (Oh for a friendly smile from Reception!)||We left feeling we loved certain aspects - but were certain we wouldn’t return.

The hotel is far too expensive for the level of service provided. The overall experience feels very basic and poorly managed. When you arrive, no one explains anything about the hotel, the facilities, or how things work. Around 90% of the staff do not speak English, which makes even simple requests unnecessarily difficult. Service at the restaurant is very slow, and most of the time many items on the menu are simply not available. This becomes frustrating, especially considering the price point. The beach is visually nice, but swells make it extremely shallow, so you can barely swim, which was disappointing. Overall, the hotel relies heavily on its image and location, but the service and experience do not match the price at all.

The hotel is great. Not too big with an excellent service. The food at the restaurant is really good with a variety of Brazilian typical dishes. the rooms are spacious well kept and had a nice tub. If you are looking to book know that it is 30min from the center by 4x4 which for us was fine as we wanted to Rlx. Also the low tide makes it impossible to enter the sea.

This hotel is amazing! The staff is super professional and courteous and the rooms and amenities are very nice and clean. We were traveling as a family (two adults and two teens) and our suite had a king size bed in the first floor and two twins in the mezzanine (they can be converted to a queen). The room arrangement worked well for us, but there is some loss of privacy associated with it. The restaurant at the hotel is amazing, and both the breakfast (which is included) and the other meals were always delicious. We stayed a week there, and after a couple days the staff already knew our names and we knew theirs. Kudos to Wilson, Atila, Alex, and Adrielly! The hotel also provides transportation to and back from the town and it was easy to go back and forth (it takes 30 minutes each way). The beach is calm with shallow warm waters (great for kids).

Vila dos Orixás is paradisiac. The view from our bungalow’s windows were breathtaking, and the breakfast (and lunch, and dinner too, we had it all) was superb. My family stayed for about a week and we had two other families with is. Everyone loved it. Thanks to the staff that were always so very helpful and kind to us. Until the next time!

Visited for 4 days during February. Great location away from the noise and vibrant city center.|They have a transfer for free so you can go back and forth.|The more we ate outside the hotel the more we realized the hotel was WAY better and cheaper. It's the best restaurant we tried in Morro and wasn't more expensive than any of the "fine dinning" places.||The beach and service are amazing

Had lunch here for the second year in a row, great view and superb food, worth the taxi ride to get to.