Pousada Convento do Carmo

I visited the convent for an amazing lunch! I had a shrimp and fish moqueca with a ton of side dishes that kept me fed for two days. The mango juice tasted as though they just picked the fruit and squeezed it directly into the glass. Great attentive staff! The property is beautiful and the birds were a delight to hear as I enjoyed my meal.

Because of its historical very beautiful architectonic features (e.g. the wooden beautiful floors) it is a special place and still superior to many of these sterile hotels with cold tiles you find so often in Brazil. Staff is nice, but neither polyglot nor very fast. The restaurant is great with very nice staff. Bed linen are are very soft and excellent. Some of the beds have worn-out mattresses and the hotel itself has not been really well maintained over the past years. WLAN works only sometimes in some places and the overall feeling of the interior decoration is rather that of a youth hostel. Still, it has a excellent location and a good price. I continue preferring it to other, newer places, because it is special ...

I stayed four nights in all. The pousada is perfectly located in town and is situated in an old convent. Front rooms may be a bit noisier on weekends but it is not too bad. The rooms have AC and fans. They are simple so do not expect luxury. Showers are a little scary the first time you take one (electrical wires and water do not go well together so ave a towel to shut the water when you are done. Also.. water never gets warmer than warm. Be forewarned). Wifi is hit and miss but free. This pousada has a relaxed atmosphere in an historic building. The management responds to problems without delay and I was grateful for that. There is a good pool and the restaurant is excellent - serving fantastic and varied breakfasts. Lunches and dinners are terrific and I have never had a caparinha like the one made here. It is worth visiting Cachoeira just for that!!!

Everything is clean and comfortable. The pool was a welcome bonus. Maybe it's just us, but a couple of our interactions with the staff left us feeling like we needed an interpreter who speaks crazy. We had an issue with the wifi and thought it might be the birds nesting in the router but turned out to be unrelated.

Has a fair amount of character, and the staff were friendly. I was a bit worried the first night as it was a Monday and all the other restaurants in town were closed, so I had in gloomy solitaries at the hotel. The restaurant lacks atmosphere, because of the Hasta lighting, as do the rooms to be frank.||I stayed three nights in all, and enjoyed the relaxing atmosphere of the small town, although as everywhere the traffic can be a bit noisy in the daytime. There is quite a good pool and the restaurant is livelier at breakfast and lunch. If this were near a beach it would cost three or four times as much, so I regarded it as quite a bargain.

Pousada do Convento do Carmo is an atmospheric hotel located in the former Carmelite monastery. The hotel has a nice patio and a small swimming pool. The rooms are on two floors, second-floor rooms are more comfortable. The furnishings are a little dated, but adequate. The staff is welcoming and friendly. The buffet breakfast offers many Bahian specialities. The location cannot be better, next door to the Church of Ordem Terceira do Carmo, a jewel of Brazilian colonial architecture. The ancient city hall and Rio Paraguacu are just steps away. The city of Cachoeira is an undiscovered gem of Brazilian colonial architecture, just 120 km from Salvador.

The Convento do Carmo may have a few faults but the opportunity to sleep with history.....colonial construction, high ceilings, courtyard, balconies, wood floors and staircases, friendly ghosts...in a centuries old former convent should not be missed.||I doubt the the original residents enjoyed A/C and meals served pool side but you can.||If you believe that over consumption is a sin, perhaps you should skip the tasty breakfast. Not to be overwhelmed by the choices presented, it did my best to sample all the delicacies but did not succeed. Give it a try yourself. Afterwards you can swim or take a morning nap. ||Rooms upstairs are larger and more comfortable....at a small increase in cost.||Management responds to problems without delay. When a ground floor water pump faltered one morning, we were given access to a second floor shower while the pump was quickly resolved. ||We slept well, ate well and.....well...on the way back from the Chapada Diamantina, stopped for a second stay rather than continuing onto a Salvador airport hotel.

First mind you are in Cachoeira|The good: it is an almost 500 years town|The bad: it is an almost 500 years town, kept out of big develoment, either in agriculture or industry.||Pousada do Convento is an old monastery kept as original as possible with all advantages and dis|Well who tour on this kind of places should know what to expect.||I lived there for months and I loved it.|And when I discovered the kitchen back door where they cook quiabada (rich in shrimps) just for hotel workers, it bacame perfect.