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Amazon hotel prices tend to be reasonable and include breakfast. Services and amenities such as laundry, however, may cost quite a bit extra. Don't expect to be pampered. When checking in, ask about discounts (descontos). During the slow season and midweek, you may get a break. Cry a little, as the Brazilians say, and you may get a larger discount. Paying with cash may lower the price. Rooms have air-conditioning, TVs, phones, and bathrooms unless we indicate otherwise, but showers don't always have hot water. Jungle lodges and smaller hotels in outlying areas often lack basic amenities.
A short walk from town directly on a white-sand beach, Beloalter has spacious rooms and swimming pool, making it one of the more sophisticated places to stay. Higher prices get you a better view or even a room in a tree house. The restaurant ($$) specializes in fish, but has a good variety of other dishes, including a great galinha a caipira, a whole roast chicken with endless sides. Its distance from town can prove a blessing at weekends, when it can get noisy.
Just up from the riverbank right on the square, Belas Praias is in a great location if you want to be where the action is. Rooms are modern, clean, and have lots of wood. Request one with a view of the bay and beaches.
Although rooms are simply decorated, you'll feel like you're staying in a friend's house at this popular and cozy bed-and-breakfast, set in a lemon-yellow house in a quiet residential area. Even though it's a 15-minute taxi from the main tourist sights, Chez les Rois is near several good restaurants and shopping malls. The rooms are spread across two floors and offer comfortable beds, free Wi-Fi, and hot showers. Don't miss the delicious breakfast that's served around the pool. The helpful staff will gladly call a taxi to the Centro for you or advise you on booking local trips.
Clean and spacious rooms here even have phones, which aren't easy to come by in this area. It's conveniently located in Centro, and the staff is friendly.
Garishly pink and supported by towering Roman columns, there's nothing else in town that looks like the Hotel Atalanta. Inside you'll find stained-glass windows, small pink columns, and cozy rooms.
Just off the beach, this place has more amenities than any other in town; breezy, spacious public areas, a wet bar, and waterslides help you keep cool. The restaurant specializes in shrimp and crab, but serves lots of fish and other dishes.
At this popular beachside hotel, wood-and-brick chalets with red-tile roofs accommodate as many as five people. Similarly designed apartments, which house up to three people, are more economical for singles and couples. The pool is configured in the shape of a clover. Be sure to make reservations—the hotel is very popular on weekends.
This hotel is well suited to business travelers thanks to its reasonable rates and downtown location. Stained-glass windows and soft leather couches welcome you in an attractive lobby, where there is free Internet. Rooms on the 12th floor are nicer and more modern than those on other floors, yet you often need to pay an additonal cost.
Right above Maçarico Beach, this hotel has the best location in town: You can look down the length of the beach from the pool. It's a 10-minute walk from the light tower.
Partially obscured by palm trees, this three-story, white, colonial-style hotel is on well-manicured grounds, and comes with many amenities, including hard-to-find wireless Internet in the rooms.
In the Cidade Alta and a little out of the way, the small chalets at Panorama I are quiet and private. A 100-yard walk takes you to an impressive overlook. The restaurant ($) is rated by locals as the best in town.
This pousada offers lovely gardens, clean, simple rooms, friendly staff, and good food for a reasonable price. The Boto is three minutes from the beach and has camping and hammock space. It rents motorcycles and bicycles—perfect for tooling around the island. The hotel also plans trips.
