Travel Inn Hotels Ibirapuera — Hotel in Região Imediata de São Paulo

I had to stay there 2 weeks while visiting the university.||The hotel is conveniently located for this, but a bit far from the metro. There are however many many buses in front of the hotel. The park is not far on foot. ||Restaurants around are so so (OK Japanese in front of the hotel).||About the Hotel itself.||This is a place that seriously needs some refurbishment. It is ancient. But still OK.||Staff is very helpful if you can speak Portuguese. There is only one person speaking english (a lady at the computer desk in the morning). So, if you have a problem, it may take a while (spanish is also not an option). But, they do try to understand you.||Rooms: as I said, they are old, but large enough and comfortable. BUT ... there are many buses in the street below, and they are very noisy. Since windows have single glazing, buses are in your room at night. Do not use the from rooms, i.e. numbers X-01 to X-04.||I started in 904 and quickly moved to 712.||The quietest rooms are X-12 to X-20. The best are X-17 to X-20. As always, the higher (11th), the better.||If you turn AC on, you will also have a bus in your room (obviously the AC is from the last century). hence, if you need to open the windows during the night, you'll need a quiet room.||||Cleaning: It is random. They do come in the room, but don't take care of things, e.g. not removing used tea bags or replacing dirty cups. Even the sink was not cleaned everyday. But globally OK.||||Breakfast: there is a big table on the first floor. More junk food than anything else. For example, why not giving fresh orange juice. This is overabundant in Brazil. But they provide from concentrated. However, there is fresh pineapple, papaya and water melon every morning. The rest is just average.||||Wifi: access tends to be random. Sometimes it stays off during the week end. You have to go the lobby to get a connection in that case.||||Overall, it is average average. Nothing special. I was there for work, and it did not bothered me...

I have stayed at this hotel approximately 2-3 times a year as I have a collaboration with some folks at one of the nearby institutions. I agree with some of the previous reviewers that the rooms are okay and I have also found that the shower heads do not work well. The rooms are tired looking and could do with some upgrades in the mattress and furniture. For some unknown reason most of the time I have been placed in a room that faces Rua Borges Lagoa, which can get a bit noisy with the traffic. I turn on the fan and that helps to drown out any street noise; i have not found it to be too noisy at night. During my last stay I had room on the 11th floor and was not facing the road and which was much quieter. I will obviously stay here again, really because this the closest and the room rates are lower because the hotel has a contract with some of the nearby institutions. It is pretty safe area to walk during the usual daytime hours and into the evenings, but I probably would not venture out too far late into the night! Cost to get from hotel to GRU airport is about R120; always negotiate with the taxi driver and if your Portuguese is not great, then get one of the hotel staff to help you. Depending upon time of day it will take you anywhere from 35 minutes to over 2 hours to get to GRU airport. I have found the hotel staff to be very helpful and at least one person behind the desk can speak English, although I would encourage the hotel management to recruit more English speaking people at the font desk. I have seen more and more English-speaking people stay at this hotel over the years. By the way, Ibirapuera park is about a safe 15 minute walk from the hotel, which I highly recommend if you have...

We spent one night here on a business trip. The neighborhood is ok, we ate at the sushi bar across the road (very good food).||The room was big, clean and well kept. Silent despite facing the street (on the 6th floor).||Wifi worked fine and the flat screen TV did so too though not all channels were available (i.e. BBC or Discovery were not).||Breakfast served after 6 AM was complete and is the usual fare in biz hotels in Brazil: fruits, yougurt, cheeses, ham, scrambled eggs, variety of cakes and bread. Fruit juice.||No complaints on the service or the...