Salvador Mar Hotel

For the price paid I'd rate 4/5. The lobby is nice, as was the breakfast and pool area. Staff were great and the morning/night receptionist spoke genuinely excellent English. The room was better than other similarly priced hotels, though the AC was very bad and there was a gap in the window and a large open vent in the bathroom which allowed warm air to enter. That said, there was a clean fridge and TV (though no chair or desk). I transferred from the Andrade Plaza which is very bad, so for a similar price, this is 300% better for sure. Would recommend if desiring this area of Salvador. Unfortunately I had no WiFi connection in my room, which is something to note. I think their current overall rating is completely accurate.

I stayed there because it was recommended by a Congress which I attended in the Convention Center. For whom is going to attend meetings the location is good, is very near the Center and you can go by walking. But the service is not good. The breakfast is not good, juices not natural, breads and cakes tasted horribly (what is a shame, since Bahia is known from its adorable food).||When we arrived, our room had two single beds instead of a double bed as we asked (I was with my husband and 18 month-old child). They apologized but, as they didn't have other room available, they put the two beds together with a pillow-top and actually it was pretty good and comfortable.||The pool is horrible and definitely not clean. I didn't have courage to enter. The food from the restaurant is OK, but expensive for what it was. The WiFi was good, not marvelous, but functioned OK in our room. The air-conditioner a little bit noisy, but functioned well. The view was good, we could see the sea from our room (I think all rooms have this good view from the window).||We had to leave the hotel very early in the morning, so my husband made the check-out the night before, but warned we would stay in the room until 5 am. Late in the night, My husband and son were sleeping and I was finishing to pack our stuff, someone from the staff entered the room with his key (thinking it was empty) and I almost had a heart attack! I would never stay again in this hotel.||I just recommend if you have a small budget and is attending a meeting in the Convention Center (a short one). It is not near tourist attractions and the beach nearby is horrible. And by the way, the 'shopping' nearby is abandoned (I thought that it would be an option for eating at night...but nothing there functions).

Hotel service: is pretty good. The staff doesn't speak English, we have to use google translator. They help you out with whatever you want or like, but is very difficult to communicate. Recommend learning Portuguese!! They have a lot of staff for a small hotel. ||||Food: the burger was ok.. The mineral water did not taste good, we bought bottle water from the store and drank that only. The breakfast I did not try because there were flies around so I was scared. Orange juice tasted watered down. My friends said the food wasn't all that great.||||Room: their double is America's twin size. They count how many people you have in the room. You all have to fill out a paper with your info so they know whose in the room. It's kind of ghetto and can get drafty. The cooler has a hole around it and they just put these black cushion stuff to cover it and fill the gaps. It has a moldy wet smell. When you shower the water leaks onto the floor and the bathroom door doesn't lock or close, we use a towel to hold it closed.. ||||Location: it's far from downtown which is like 30 minutes and with traffic can be an hour. Is close by a beach walking distance of 10-15 mins depending which part of the beach you want to go to. ||||Best thing about the hotel is WIFI.. Some parts of our room we got it.. Others didn't, but the lobby had a good signal.. ||||Overall it's better than a hostel and has things they def. need to fix like dripping water but it's decent enough to come back and sleep in every night.. You do get cable.. I would stay here if im on a tight budget but prefer somewhere else.

For the price paid I'd rate 4/5. The lobby is nice, as was the breakfast and pool area. Staff were great and the morning/night receptionist spoke genuinely excellent English. The room was better than other similarly priced hotels, though the AC was very bad and there was a gap in the window and a large open vent in the bathroom which allowed warm air to enter. That said, there was a clean fridge and TV (though no chair or desk). I transferred from the Andrade Plaza which is very bad, so for a similar price, this is 300% better for sure. Would recommend if desiring this area of Salvador. Unfortunately I had no WiFi connection in my room, which is something to note. I think their current overall rating is completely accurate.

Location couldn't be worse, away from the beach and from historic centre. Staff only speaks Portuguese. The elevator didn’t work for the floor in which we were located.||Breakfast was low quality, fruit juices were VERY watered down.||Rooms were not clean enough.||Not going back there ever.

The price is ok so they will serve OK foods. Could be better, increasing the variety of food choices, salads... Otherwise, is cool to do a cheap launch

It was cheap. But also were cheap food, bad quality snack's, bad coffee. Only thing good going for it was the price.

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