The worst hotel we have ever stayed at
The front desk staff was very rude when we checked. When we went to the room we heard a terrible noise in the corridor so we asked them to give as a room in another floor and then we realised that the noise appeared when anyone in the floor switched on the air conditioning. By the way, the woman on the front desk was also very unpleasant this time.
We almost didn't sleep dur to the noise of the air conditioning machine in the corridor, we just could sleep when all the air conditioning machines of the rooms in the same floor were switched off.
Everything was dirty: a sofa in the room, the grille of the air conditioning, the table cloth in the restaurant for breaksfast. Breaksfast was also bad. We thougth that it was close to the city center (Pelourinho) but you have to take a taxi to go there.
The swimming pool is very small but I can't say if it was clean because we didn't want to try it.
The room furniture is old-fashioned, to say the truth all the hotel is old-fashioned.
We had made a reservation for two nights but the second one we had to go to another hotel and we couldn't smile until we went out of this hotel.
When we checked out the man of the front desk didn't say even goodbye.
I wouldn't give more than one star to this hotel.
We have stayed in four hotels in Brazil and this was the only one when we had any problem.

In some guidebooks this hotel is listed under "expensive" and better hotels of the city. The hotel turned out to be very average and without any character. It is located in a residential quiet neigborhood on the edge of a cliff with a nice view of the bay from the "ocean view" rooms. It is a highrise with 25 floors. The rooms are basic and in the U.S they would probably get a 2-3 star rating. Each room has two single beds, TV, table with chairs, closet and a kitchen area with a stove. However, the room did not have a fridge nor any cooking utensils or anything for that matter in "the kitchen" cupboards. The room was clean but the bedspread was shabby and dated. The pillow and the pillowcase had the hotel's name written in black permanet marker. The showercurtain rod kept falling down and the maid rang the doorbell at 8 a.m and wanted to make up the room. We had two rooms for a family of four, because each room (including the master suite) could only accommondate two guests. They did not have adjoining rooms. The hotel has two pools and a hot tub. The main pool was dirty with plastic trash floating in the water. The other tiny pool was located by the ocean, where you could take a gondola from the lobby. You can swim in the ocean, which was quite nice. Down by the bay was also a restaurant.
In the morning the hotel offered a plentiful breakfast buffet.
The old town of Pelourinho is a 15 minute $5 cab ride away. Most of the best restaurants and sights in Salvador are in Pelourinho.