Pousada Água Doce

Santo Amaro is one of the best places if you want to explore the Lençois Maranhenses National Parc. However it is a very small and difficult to reach village and therefore is not very well equipped from a touristic standpoint. ||The Pousada Agua Doce is a simple and rustic place, but very clean and people there are all really friendly and have helped us a lot in the organization of all the tours that we wanted to take, as well as in the logistic of getting the best option to move to the next step of our trip (Barreirinhas). ||The room has a good air conditioning and hot running water in the bathroom, which, as I have learned, is not something you can take for granted everywhere !! Wify is free and quite good .||The Pousada is also known for it's restaurant which is really good. ||A swimming pool is under construction and it will be a nice plus because it is located in a nice spot that overlooks the river ||It is not in the center of the village so it is very quite. In Santo Amaro is one of the best places to stay.

The Pousada probably is the biggest one in Santo Amaro so there is higher chance you can find availability if you don't book in advance. Nobody speaks English there so it is difficult to communicate if you dont know any Portuguese. I sent them an email to book a room and they responded very promptly. The lady in the desk could help you arrange the trips to Lecois and also transportation to Barri and Sao Luis. The pousada is very basic but clean. The food is not bad. There is wifi signal which is a surprise considering you have take two hours on a sand road to get there from the highway. Santo Amaro definitely is the better place to explore Lecois there are less tourists here and you often find you are the only one walking around those beautiful logoas.

We stayed in a nice, simple and generally clean apartamiento. ||||We had the pousada get a guide for us to trek the Lencois. Ask for Rudy to help you out while you are there. He speaks great english (no one else seemed to) and was super helpful.||||The food was good, probably expensive, compared to other restaurants ($40R for a meal) but was good and after a long journey we weren't that into adventuring out. ||||Santo Amaro is a great jumping off point for the Lencois, as it is much closer to the dunes than Barreirinhas. The tourist infastructure is minimal, however, so it takes a little more work from here.

did not expect much in the little village, but the pousada was very clean, nice rooms with air condition. Good location and the whole infrastructure in really good condition. So far we were really happy, except the terrible service. Staff hiding, when we wanted to order food or drinks. And when we were able to find someone to tell what we want, it took for ever to get it served.||This made our stay really a negative experience

Clean room; relaxing atmosphere; the manager, Euzemir, always available to help the customers in the pousada or to organize excursion or transfer to/from Santo Amaro||After a day spent visiting the park it's good to come back to a clean place with a good restaurant, if you want to recover

I loved this well cared for pousada in a small village on the edge of the dunes. Clean rooms and very friendly owner and staff. Don't expect a lavish breakfast, but you will need to get out early anyway to start exploring. Go up the main street in the evening to try a bacuri icecream.

This wonderful pousada offers everything you would hope for when you come to the nice little town Santo Amaro, which is a good entry point to visit the amazing Lençoes Maranhenses. Also the village itself with its sweetwater beach at the Rio Grande is a good place to have a few days of rest, and the excellent infrastructure of the pousada gives you exactly that, rest and peaco of mind.

The city is so poor and almos in the middle in the nowhere, that you find this place good, but it is quite spartan. The room has air conditioning, but don´t have TV or frigobar. The pousada has no pool. The food, in the other hand, is good.