I decided to stay in POUSADA DO TOBY in Canoa Quebrada after reading the Brazil LP guide, it seemed a good place, but now I think it was my worst hotel decision in many years. I wanted to stay 3 days, but I left after the first horrible night
The "cheap" rooms for 100-110 Rs are umpleasant (excepting maybe n 9): dark, no espace at all for clothes, a lot of noise enter from outside, holes-fisures in windows frames let mosquitos enter. Also safety box and tv control don!t work.
But the main problem is that POUSADA DO TOBY is the noisiest hotel I remeber in many, many years.
1- All the rooms are around a central wood upstairs communicating the 3 floors, this is causing frequent noise when people are walking up and down.
2- also, during the day there are a lot of noisy local people walking around, between the rooms area: crying, making noise,..It seems some of them livein the rooms area, I don!t know what they do, but while you can´t heard any customer, you are always hearing noisy locals. (I found similar situations in somo local hotels in Thailand, Indonesia, etc, where local noisy people are walking and noising around the customers area)
3- The worst is the noisy coming drom the restaurant located in last floor, as everything is an open area. It was really very very noisy: music, people shouting, kitchen noise, chairs. Impossible to sleep until late after midnight
I know most of hotel customers are expecting the hotel will be a quiet place, if somebody is looking for a noisy restaurant, it can be found outside; if somebody is looking for a noisy disco, it can be found outside; POUSADA DO TOBY is offering 3 in 1.