I had a mixed impression of the hotel. The rooms are nice and big, American size. The breakfast buffet is good, too. Otherwise, there are a few minuses such as a ridiculously little pool and the rather drab location. About the latter there is probably little you can do as hotels in Brasilia are confined to the designated "hotel sectors".

The Tryp/Melia Brasilia was a very good hotel. The staff spoke English and were very helpful. The sitting, bedroom and bathroom were very large. The hotel was modern and undergoing some samll scale changes as it had just changed hands. We asked for the Tryp hotel but the taxi drivers all knew it as the Melia chain. Could not fault the rooms there were large, clean, well furnished and it felt like a luxury hotel. The view were great over the TV tower. The rest of the hotel was souless, reception, resturant, coridoors were off white polished stone. The room had an electronic safe for no extra charge and expansive bar with kitchnet. The only downside was the location. Great for business but there were no resturant or cafes nearby. So snacks were taken at the nearby bus station or in the hotel resturant wihc had a very cheap buffet in the evening.

Good points.
Room - great size, good layout and well furnised. It felt classy.
Staff - English spoken with ease and very helpful
Electronic safe at no charge.
Good hotel chain ( we used three of their hotels).
Gym
Cheap evening buffet (not drink though)

General
Location good or bad depending why you are in town.

Bad
Souless business hotel
Tiny round pool
Expensive bar items

Reccomendation.
I would use this hotel again at any time fro buiness. If it were a special socail occasion I would either use the hotel then travel about town for resturant in a taxi. Overall excellant for price

Very clean hotels, very courteous staff. However, on the night we stayed, there was a rock band performing in the lounge until 1 am. Even though we had a room on the 19th floor, the hollow lobby to 20th floor architecture of the hotel carries the sound all the way up. Other than that, we enjoyed the comfort of the room and continental breakfast.

This is a beautiful, very comfortable hotel. The rooms are spacious with lots of room to spread out; the bathrooms are equally posh. The lobby is large and comfortable. There is a business center; internet access is available for a small fee. The restaurant is nice and serves a great breakfast buffet with many choices. The menu at lunch and dinner is not light and the portions are large, but very good.

Our group had a few snags with logistics (when meeting rooms were supposed to be ready, etc.), but the hotel took care of things when advised of the problems.