Hotel da Bahia by Wish

The hotel needs major renovations. The windows are dirty. The mirrors are foggy in the room and hallway. Amanda & Nathaniel were the only helpful team members. The building has a damp, musty order when you enter the lobby. I did not unpack for fear of possible bugs. The room decor is severely dated. Locals recommended this hotel. I would not recommend to solo travelers or those who do not speak fluent Portuguese. Restaurant staff responded slowly and as if they were being interrupted. They did nothing to handle the disruptive, intoxicated guest in the restaurant on August 24, 2025. PRO: Maintenance was fast to repair the toilet. Poolside bartender was very pleasant on my final night. Sylvia (spa) does great massages.

The highlight of the stay was the outstanding blues concert by Eric Assmar in the lobby of the hotel on a Friday night. Rooms are comfortable and mostly quiet, gym is quite complete. For improvement, the curtains let light through in the morning.

The rooms are nice with comfortable beds and great showers! The best part of the stay is the food and service in the restaurant. Always serving with a smile and genuinely working to make sure you have everything you need to have a great dining experience. The food is very good. Fresh cooked and full of flavor! If you are lucky enough to have Jose and Marcus serve, you are in excellent hands!

Pros: Comfortable stay, clean and well equipped room, lovely staff and tasty breakfast. Convenient to have the gym during our stay. Cons: The internet didn’t work unfortunately so was a little inconvenient. Although the hotel is relatively close to the cultural center by car, there are very few restaurants in walkable distance for dinner.

Really good hotel, quite elegant and pleasant, with professional desk staff even if the checking in procedure for our large group was quite lengthy. Large room, very rich breakfast offer and good location in Salvador. All room service available.

I don‘t usually write bad reviews, but there are things about this hotel that need to be said and since the Staff was not kind or accommodating when i tried to make things right, I think it is necessary to write the review. We are a family of 5, for what I reserved 2 rooms. About 3 weeks before arrival i sent and email to request that the rooms be close to eachother, or at least on the same floor. After a week of no response I called the hotel. Was noted that the rooms be at least on the same floor. At check-in the rooms were not even on the same floor and they could not do anything. Our first dinner was at the gourmet restaurant, we were served ice cold red wine. We politely told the waiter and he said that that was the right temperature, the lady next to us ordered a glass of the same wine and was served at room temperature, which is what we wanted, they refused to change the wine, instead a very rude man came and took the wine glasses and said they cannot do anything. The breakfast buffet was good, but no extra menu for eggs or extra things that you can normally order ( at an extra price) in other 5 star hotels, but i saw someone ordering an omelette and was served an omelette, I asked the waitress if I could also order one and her response was: if it‘s not in the buffet, we don’t have. I speak fluent portuguese and english, there was no language barrier here. Dinner at the main restaurant was cold and got served a vegetable cream instead of the mushroom cream that i ordered. We decided to not eat at the Hotel anymore. Was it bad luck? Were we expecting too much?

Wonderful location, great beds and roomy bathrooms with the most lovely and delicious breakfast with nice outdoor option to eat while enjoying nature

The staff at Wish were all absolutely fantastic! The room was a bit run down but a pleasant stay nonetheless. We would definitely recommend a stay here if you want to be right in the middle of Carnival! Location was excellent.