Pousada Maria Bonita

Our stay at the guesthouse was excellent. The location is a major highlight: it’s right next to the main street, close to the central square and the restaurants, so you can easily walk everywhere without needing a car. It’s also just a short distance from Conceição Beach and Cachorro Beach, which makes getting around very convenient.||The room is very comfortable, always clean and well-organized — the daily housekeeping is impeccable. The bath products are from Costa Brazil, with a wonderful scent, and the Wi-Fi works perfectly, which made a big difference during our stay.|Breakfast is very well served, with a cook who prepares everything to order, and in the afternoon they offer a delicious coffee with cake. The guesthouse also provides beach chairs, umbrellas, and towels, which is extremely convenient.||The staff is outstanding — incredibly polite, helpful, and supportive from the moment we arrived until our departure.||A welcoming, well-located place with excellent service. Highly recommended!

Excellent place. Well appointed with excellent taste. Great lighting, decoration. |Agreeable place to be and relax. |Would strongly recommend and would stay again. |Both receptionist were very attentive, helpfull. ||Very good breakfast, had a nice mix of fruits, breads snd some regionsl specialities

We loved out stay here. We were traveling from Canada for some diving in FdN. This little hotel is beautiful, with a spa like atmosphere. We stayed on the second floor (Horizon suite) which gave a nice view. The room and bath are stylish and well done. There are safes in the room, nice shower, lovely Costa Brazil products. A jar of yummy little cookies was waiting for us. The balcony was large with 2 comfortable chairs and also helped us to dry out our clothes and gear. No water bottles are provided in the room but we bought water at a close by convenience store. The hotel provides tea and coffee throughout the day and amazing fresh cake at 4pm. ||The location is quiet on a quiet street and we slept well. Air conditioning worked well and quietly and was needed with the heat. The hotel is in the town and there was a road full of restaurants of all sorts nearby. Many of them were quite reasonable but fine dining was also available. We could walk to about 4 different beautiful beaches. (note this was a hot walk, and rather hilly. Doable, but not super easy)||The hotel greets you with a welcome drink on checkin. Breakfasts were amazing. The team started early for us as the dive shop picks up at 7:15. We just had to get our order in the night before. Breakfast menu included home made juices, yogurt, eggs/omelettes, tapiocas and of course fresh bread and other baking. They also surprised us with little health shots (beet juice, ginger, something else). ||We enjoyed the pool, which was perfect after walking around j. the heat. The pool area is lovely with comfortable lounging.||The hotel provided us towels we could take diving or to the beach which was amazing. ||Overall though we loved the reception team. They all spoke english and made our visit very easy for us. From whatsapp help before we arrived to so many small things during our stay this really made the difference for us. We were coming a long way, with no portuguese skills at all and FdN is quite remote and alittle complicated with all the taxes and fees and such.||It was really a first class stay. Not inexpensive but given the remoteness of the location and the quality we felt it was worth it.

My husband and I had our honeymoon in this paradise and we made the best choice to stay at Maria Bonita. Friendly staff, greeting us with smiles and offering a helping hand. The breakfast was amazing, carefully and freshly made to order with a great menu selection. The pool area is amazing, location is prime, and the bedrooms are comfy and cozy. Thiago, Gustavo and Kim - we can’t thank you enough for your kindness and care. You are rockstars.

The care and attention of the team members were just awesome. We felt at home since the moment we arrived. The comfort and the services were also excellent. Fully recommend it.

Stayed here with our family, including 2 kids. Location is perfect and walking distance to restaurants and the main dining/shopping area of Vila dos Remédios. The highlight is the staff: not only make you feel home but they are always findings ways to help…starting with the information they shared before our arrival and during the whole stay with tips and answers to all our questions.

My husband and I stayed here back in March and we had a wonderful stay. The food was amazing, the customer service and recommendations were incredible, and the connections the employees had with local businesses / private tour guides throughout the island was extremely helpful. We did have have a few times where it was difficult to reach staff when we needed them, for example, when our AC stopped working, and that was frustrating but problem was eventually solved. However, I would most importantly like to note that towards the end of our stay the customer service we received from Kim took a dive and she began being short with us, and then one night when we requested additional bedding she was rude to us, scoffed at us, and said “Oh my God” as she turned her back and walked away from us because my husband forgot to initially mention that we also needed pillow covers, making her go back and grab those for us in addition to the sheet we requested (we accidentally missed the room service option that day so we had to tend to the bed and room ourselves). Sure, it was late at night and close to her shift ending, but the way she treated us was absolutely unacceptable and left an awful (and sad) taste in our mouth in regards to Maria Bonita. I was personally incredibly upset that she spoke to my husband this way and planned to make a comment to her once she returned with the pillow cases but my husband, as kind as he is, simply said it wasn’t worth it. From this point on I was nervous to go into the lobby as I didn’t want to see her and possibly experience the same temper. Lucky our stay was almost over and we didn’t have to see her again. We do not plan to stay at Maria Bonita again due to this as we wouldn’t want to risk being mistreated again and for the price point that it is, something like this should have never occurred. If something like this would not bother you though, then we would certainly recommend the stay to you.

Maria Pousada is a hidden gem on the isolated island of Fernando Noronha. The staff (shout out to: Alberto, Manu, Kim and Higor!) are incredibly welcoming, hospitable and knowledgeable about everything on the island. The rooms are modern, beautifully decorated and clean. Definitely keep this place in mind for your next get away!