Hostel Barra — Hotel in Região Geográfica Imediata de Salvador

This was my first time in Salvador. I went there with my mother. I can assume I had bad feelings about Salvador, thinking it was a Large City, not clean, with violence and poverty all around. What a big illusion!!! Salvador is a very charming city, developed, kind people (sometimes too much kind, beware!). Well, the Barra Hostel is located one block of Barra Beach, which is a beautiful and a touristic place in Salvador. You have a good commerce near it and lots of good restaurants. The hostel itself is quite simple. They offer shared and private rooms. We have taken a private one with bathroom. It was a small room, just enough to sleep. The bathroom small and simple, but clean and Private. The breakfast was rich and very tasteful. Staff is friendly. Installations are quite cosy. The offer touristic facilities such as tours, day packages, etc. We have taken a day taxi tour which was great. Do not hesitate to "explore" the hosts; they are always ready to help. There were people of different countries and staff do speak differente languages. As the music says: "I don't want to stay here! I want to go...

My friend and i stayed at this hostel for 3 nights. We stayed at the room (with 6 beds) that smelled of toilet and there was no air. There was a fan in the room but it did not help much (also it was very noisy). The beds were really old and it was very difficult to pull out the boxes for luggage from under the bed. Seems that the hostel management thought it was more important to purchase a huge LCD TV for the common area rather than decent beds.||The hostel was located near the beach but there are much nicer beaches around Salvador. If i could choose again, i would prefer to stay in old town (in Das Laranjeiras). To use the computer you had to pay. In general the staff was helpful and some of the employees spoke some...

I would definitely not recommend this hostel. The people working there are very rude and condescending. We had to come to the hostel because of a health emergency and even after telling them this they continued to be rude and didn’t believe us that we had to go to the hospital. They even asked us for the name of the hospital in a condescending way. The bedroom was really gross and disgusting. There was a really bad smell in the bathroom. Additionally, the room smelled like someone pissed on the matress. The window and door made very loud noises at the slightest gust of wind. They were clearly out of standard. The bed was damp and dirty as well which felt uncomfortable and like the room hadn’t...