Like U Hotel — Hotel in Região Geográfica Imediata do Distrito Federal

Like many hotels in Brasilia, the Bristol Hotel has seen better days. But, also, is trying to recover some of its infrastructure in order to improve its capacities. Therefore, the hotel is a mix between the past and the present. Rooms have been relatively renovated in the bedroom and bathroom, so you can get a feel of the present. However, beds are definetly from the past, with a hard pillow and mattress. Also, it is possible to hear everything that goes by in other rooms, which is kind of annoying. Air conditioning is wuite noisy and there is no hair dryer in the bathroom or shower cap, just some soap. In addition, you are not able to close with a key the windows that lead to the street in the varanda and almost attached to the other bedroom. If you are in high floors ok, but if you are in the lower ones it is kind of disturbing not to be able to lock it specially at night. As many hotels in that area, streets are deserted at night, with prostitution and people asking for money. Park Shopping Mall which has a very good number of restuarants and stores is nearby at walking distance but it is really not reccommeded to walk there alone at night. In the morning it os almost impossible to catch the lift, and even if you do, they are not working properly, so when I left I chose to take the stairs even with a bag. If the rooms are almost renovated entirely, the corridors are not (they seem to be working from bottom floors to higher ones, but still a long way to go) and the carpet smells like mold. The restaurant is also very dated and the breakfast, for Brazilian standards, is so and so. The only really positive side is the staff which is very polite. If I had to book a hotel for me, I would chose others, but if someone books this during a business trip like this one, ok. There are worse hotels in Brasilia, but also there are better ones in this...

I think this hotel has changed for the worse since the other review was made in 2006. The staff were not friendly at all. They would take ages giving you your key and instead carrying on a conversation with another staff member.||||The rooms are small and have very old furniture. The room was clean and the bathroom was marble, but it flooded the bathroom when I used the shower and then it was slippery and dirty. They wanted money in exchange for shampoo and conditioner! They asked an exorbitant rate for the items in the minibar. Out of desperation I went to have a bottle of water and luckily realised it was out of date! There was a garage around the corner that I went to much better value and safe to drink!||||The room on one side of the building are very noisy as they face one of the main roads in Brasilia.||The breakfast was quite good but the room can get very busy. The lifts take ages to come.||||The worst think was when I went to check out. I was in a rush and when I went to pay by MasterCard they tried it three times and then said I had no money on it! I had enough cash and stupidly paid them that way. However I went to a cash point across the road straight after and withdrew money no problem. When I explained this to a Brazilian colleague he explained that this has happened to him. They do it to save the 6% credit card fee. I felt really disappointed and then it become obvious what the two staff were doing when they were intimidating me to pay. One was disconnecting the line in the back as I put my pin in. I feel really stupid not realising but I was in such a rush. Thus, I would urge you to try one of the many other hotels nearby. Many of them look very nice...

This turned out to be a very pleasant, clean, simple kind of mid-range hotel, with friendly and helpful staff, a decent restaurant (not exotic, by any means), fast wi-fi (for RS18 per day), and a nicely furnished room and a good bathroom. It's obviously been completely renovated since some of the quite negative reviews of a few years ago, though it is not smart, contemporary, if that's the kind of thing you want.||||It's right next door to Patio Brasil, a large shopping mall with good restaurants and much else: Viena on the top floor for a splendid, delicious, pay-by-weight buffet; Kopenhagen for super coffee and chocolate on the second; two large bookshops and all the other usual fashion, phone and banking facilities.||||I don't think Brasilia is much of a place for tourists: a day or two is all you need to see what there is to see (remarkable architecture, if a little tired and worn, for example), but the city is dominated by motor vehicles and there is no street life as such, as far as I could find.||||Bristol Hotel is in the central hotel sector, so is likely to be convenient for meetings and conferences; my conference was in the Brasil 21 complex, just a few minutes' walk away. At this time of year (early November) there's been a lot of rain. Yesterday, internet for the whole sector was knocked out for twelve hours or so by heavy rain. Comfortable temperatures in the low to mid twenties.||||Very few people anywhere here seem to speak English. There's one guy at the hotel who's great, but in shops, museums, taxis, not a word as far as I can tell. So...