Hotel Itamarati | Hotel na República, São Paulo - SP — Hotel in Região Imediata de São Paulo

If you get a room upstairs facing the back of the building (opposite the breakfast area on the other side of the courtyard) they are clean, quiet and beautiful throughout. You can also pick up a detachable keylock from the reception if you chose to lock up your room's safe. In case you run out of sd/micro sd card like me, you can buy them from a small drinks kiosk by the roadside at the traffic light on the same side of the hotel as you walk towards the big park. The area outside the hotel is very busy and crowded on weekends as there are many bars around but almost deserted on weekdays. You can exchange US dollars for Real at the hotel reception. They too can book city day tour for you, which I did. I was with a group tour and stayed for 2 nights enroute to Rio.The short dark hair pleasant looking middle age lady who speak better English than the rest of the hotel employee is very helpful. I thinks she's the owner but I could be wrong. Someone in previous review had mentioned about the view on top of the "italian?" building. Yes, great view indeed. As you walk into the building, although there are lifts on your left, take the lift to the right and go to level 34 but level 37 is better as it has a cleaner lift lobby area and safer for female tourists as the female lift operators often take a break there when their lifts aren't busy. Beware the lifts are old and wobbly and looks like they jam every now and then as I watch the lift operator fiddling around with the lift buttons and keys. Love the TV in the lift though.I was allowed to go up the building in the morning - I didnt know back then until I read reviews here that they only allow visitors at set time from 3pm till..||Enjoy your stay in Sao Paulo and don't forget to count the number of helipads on top of the buildings whilst you are at level 37 - you...

There's nothing special about a stay here but it's good enough for a short stay in SP. ||||The location is very convenient, right near Praca Republica and the Republica metro station. It's a short walk through the square to the pedestrian shopping precinct and the old town. But as noted by others it is not recommended to walk around the area after dark, particularly in and around the square. Whether or not this is a deal breaker will vary person to person.||||Our double room was fairly basic, older style but clean and comfortable enough. The air con was not particularly effective and the TV offered a very limited range of stations and no English language ones. The bathroom was small but good enough. The key to the very old fashioned safe had to be signed for at reception. It took us a while to realise this and it would have been much better had this been pointed out when we checked-in.||||Breakfast is the standard South American continental with the added bonus of scrambled egg, a sausage mix and tropical fruits (banana, papaya, melon and pineapple). A better selection that we encountered in some Hotels with a better rating than this one.||||The Hotel is a bit of a rabbit warren - we actually needed assistance from a staff member to find our room the first time. Not a problem once we got our bearings. The coffee offered in reception to all guests in the afternoon is...

The location is very central, near to Praca da Republica. This is something of a two-edged sword; it is close to lots of bars, restaurants, and important sights, but also near many sex shops, porn theatres, etc. Not an area to bring young children.||||The hotel itself is OK. Not luxurious by any means, but adequate for a couple of nights. The bed was comfortable, the linen was clean, the shower had plenty of hot water and the breakfast was more than enough. It could benefit from a larger elevator but that is a minor point. If I was ever coming to Sao Paulo again, which is highly unlikely, I would stay at this hotel again. Mainly because I have solved the maze of surrounding streets after getting lost half a dozen times.||||This hotel was one of over 20 places that we stayed in during a 7-week, South American holiday. Each was booked and paid for by the tour company that we were travelling with. Therefore, I am unable to say anything about the prices of whether the hotels were good value for money. The reader will have to rely on other travellers for that...