Triboju Inn — Hotel in Região Geográfica Imediata do Recife

Our trip to Fernando de Noronha left us with mixed emotions. The island itself is stunningly beautiful from a distance and the beaches some of the best we have ever been to. However, once you step away from the beach, you are confronted with what can only be described as long term neglect for the development of the island. I am simply cannot understand where all the money that is paid in entry fees and passes goes. Locals advise us the money is not returned to the island and it certainly appears that way. It is angering knowing that our hard earned travel money is lining the pockets of some corrupt or incompetent politician in Recife instead of giving us a better holiday experience. The amount of rubbish lying in the streets and the the general lack of quality infrastructure (e.g. airport, sealed roads, wharf etc) defies the high costs that tourists are charged. Roads are not sealed to the beach meaning that if it rains (and it rained every day for us) a trip to the beach is a mud infested struggle that simply ruins the experience. There is nothing fun about endlessly cleaning mud from your feet, your clothes, your buggy (normal cars simply cannot make it to the beach if it rains) etc. The locals we spoke to appear to be equally frustrated and they make up for it with their exceptional service, friendliness and food quality. Fortunately, the staff at the hotel were brilliant and were a large reason were were able to leave the island feeling happy and not completely ripped off. They were always friendly and willing to met our needs. Our trip would have been a disaster with out them. The hotel facilities were perfect for our needs - clean and well presented. The food was good although overpriced for the quality which varied too much - sometimes the food was perfect and other times overcooked (e.g. our lobster dinner). I doubt that we will ever return to the island as it is overpriced compared to other travel options elsewhere in Brazil (e.g. Amazon, Pantanal) and the rest of the world. However, if we do return, we would certainly stay at Pousada...

We paid around USD600 per night during the holiday season. Our room was a "Luxury Suite". In reality, it was two regular rooms that had a door between them removed to create some sort of living room. The room was incredibly, depressingly dark. It smelled of sweat covered up by incessantly burning electric incense burners. Our view was to a back cement block wall. ||||The pool is small, somewhat dirty, and in 5 days we saw one person enter it. It has no view at all.||||I have no idea how the other reviewers can say this Pousada is gorgeous. Its located in an inland valley down the end of a muddy stree track, totally isolated. ||||The hotel staff and reception seemed sweet and tried to be helpful, but there is no getting around that this hotel did an incredibly poor job of informing us about the island before we went. We could not go on any nature hike as the entire island capacity was booked, you have to book months in advance. Impossible to rent a buggy for transport as they were all booked and we were forced to take overpriced taxis everywhere. This hotel should have sent us some information when we booked our stay (they claimed they usually do but somehow forgot with us).||||We requested a booking to arrive on one day, but showed up to the island and the hotel had made a mistake and didn't start the booking until a day after, and then acted like they were doing us a favor by giving us the room.|||| The restaurant was kind of good food.||||In short, the price is exorbitant compared to what was delivered, will never go back to this place or this island. ||||The island itself is beautiful, but generally this island is a total rip off. You pay $120 per person for tourist entrance tax, then another $100 per person to get a card to allow you to access the beaches. Of course, none of this is organized, you have to go in person to a little hut in the middle of the town square to line up to pay and get the beach card. ||||There are dozens of better islands to visit on the planet, with more fair prices and much better...

This was labelled as one of the best pousadas in FEN. It was not. The checkin took a very long time, and the rooms were extremely disappointing. It was old, extremely dirty and mouldy. The shower had weak water pressure and had either very cold or very hot water. It had a strong wood smell, the AC was broken (leaked a lot and was badly placed on the wall), bed sheets were stained with what we thought was blood, and so did the towels (which were yellow). They offered us to switch rooms, but the other rooms were just as bad. One of the windows did not have glass, just slats, which we found very strange. In our last night, a big chunk of wood just fell from the bathroom window and made a very loud sound. Luckily, no one was showering, but this was really scary. They did not clean it up very well and I was scared to shower without flip flops after that. ||The breakfast was nice, but they did not have yoghurt for the entirety of our stay. It took ages to be prepared, about an hour at least. We could not fault the waiters, who were very nice and attentive. However, the rest of the staff at the hotel did not have a good attitude, and even questioned why I didn't complain about the AC, when I did so on the first night to the security guard. The beach kit (chairs and parasol) were really old and rusty, and one person in our party cut his finger. The pool had rusty drains which were dangerous as well. For the extremely expensive price of our stay, it was not value for money at all. It needs extensive...