Pousada Stella Tropical

Its a regular place with service and people good care for costumers. It is a great location for beach and a near supermarket. Rooms are clean and organized, but a little old furniture. It is on middle term a rustic or too old. There is a pool bit a did not use. Breakfast is not included at reservation, but there is room service which offer breakfast with fair place.

I choose this place because after a very long travel i didn't feel like arriving in a city in the middle of the night. This pousada is located only 10min from the airport. Be sure you know where it is as it is't easy to find in the dark. Rooms are simple and clean with a tv, airco, a balcony and a hamac. There is a nice garden with sun seats and a small swiming pool. But a very long beach is just behind the corner. It's the place where locals from the city enjoy the weekend. From the pousada you can take the bus to the main busstation or to the city centre.

I had to stop somewhere near Salvador airport for one night and arrived at gated pousada of Stella Topical which is fabulously located just one block from the amazing the Stella Maris coastline. There is no English speaker here so understandably the reception was quite muted - it probably didn't help that a teenager who was inexperienced at 'customer service' was serving me.||||The room was a decent size with a decent bed & clean sheets/towels/soap but the facilities e.g. fridge, shower room were definitely in need of an overhaul if not a clean; there was a really strong smell of toilet freshener emanating from the bowl throughout the entire room.||||The worst thing for me was the blacked out windows! They had put black sticky back plastic onto the panes for some bizarre reason so you either had to have the sliding windows open to get a bit of daylight thus exposing yourself to other guests walking by, or hide away in your artificially lit room. It felt confined (cell-like) to say the least, so I actually peeled a bit of the plastic back to lift my spirits, not to mention the light level in the room (I did of course replace it!)||||Otherwise, there was a functioning air con, ceiling fan and cable TV in the room and free wifi throughout the pousada - definite plus points to note. I was able to buy a can of coke from them but I don't think they did food throughout the day as the teenager receptionist seemed to indicate.||||Breakfast was less than adequate really - the juice was watered down and there was only one bizarrely flavoured juice to drink anyway. There was only a narrow selection of fresh food.||||There was no 'authority figure' to refer to i.e. someone who you could glean information from or welcome you - it was quite a soulless experience really.

The hotel looks nice, one block awaya from beach and three blocks from a street with shops and bar/restaurants. Regretfully, the service is quite bad.||In fact, the first night we were not given bed sheets; they just told that the laundry had not arrived (!!!???), For the second night only the lower sheet was set, but employing two single beds sheets on a king size bed. ||Only for the third night we had sheets, although only one of the pillows had cover. ||Photos of this shame are available on request.

Great hotel if you are arriving late of leaving early. Just make sure that you don't have heavy suitcases as there is no elevator or help from the staff to bring them to your room. You have to buy a small lock at the reception for the safe or use your own suitcase lock.

A comfortable clean pousada within a short taxi ride from Salvador airport. We stayed here overnight as our connecting flight was the following morning. The air conditioning worked extremely well and we enjoyed a very good nights sleep.||The following morning we came down refreshed to a very good breakfast which set us up for the rest of our journey.||I wouldn't want to spend a long holiday here but the hotel had all we needed at a very reasonable price and the staff were very helpful.

It's really an amazing place!! Veery beautiful even cheap, cause te service and the staff are awsome and always ready to gelo And serve You. I just Loved!! Great And big rooms, so comfortable!! And very nice decoration too!! I will return for sure!

The fastest Check-In ever done... great Service already at the beginning... The room itsself nothing special but clean... Breakfast ok and enough selection.||For a 1-3 day stopp-over perfect... but as the area around the Airport is not safe, specially at night (starting by sundowner) it is not really a place to stay for 2 weeks... else the Pousada is offering the Setting/Facilities for this... anyway for a 2 weeks stay would not recomment this area (by knowing Salvador quite well)...