When you enter the lobby it has a dated look. But the rooms are very contemporary, clean a…read morecomfortable. Service was excellent. Hotel was cery wuiet at night while I slept. The included breakfast was amazingly excellent!!! The location is walking distance to grocery and drug stores. I walked to Disc pizza which was cery good. Great value for Americans with the current 4:1 exchange rate.

If you need to sleep, you might be able to here. The good:…read moreThe room has an A/C and heat unit that you control. There is an in-room safe. There is a dorm fridge. The staff are nice. Free wi-fi. The bad: The bed is super-firm. Like sleeping on the floor firm. The walls are thin. You can hear everything your neighbor says. Good for spies, bad for rest. They give you a shampoo/conditioner combo and one bar of soap. You get to choose to use the soap for your body or your hands. There are no face cloths or hand towels in the room. Assuming you use the soap for your hands, you can't dry them. The skinny: It's not awful, but bring your own toiletries, towels, and mattress.

I'm spending my 4th night at the Golden Park Hotel & I must say that I am not sorry to be leaving…read moretomorrow. This is a low end budget hotel where I was put up by my host. The sign out front says 98 Reai compared to the newer Budget Ibis next door at 140. Things are functional & the best thing I can say is that shower puts out copious quantities of suitably hot water. This is NOT damning with faint praise mind you. I'm very glad for it. The breakfast is acceptable with a modest assortment of cold cuts & cheeses, nice fruit, nice selection of breads, cereal & yogurt and some eggs & sausage I haven't bothered to try. They also wheel out some tasty but very sweet coffee cakes. But the restaurant is pretty awful the rest of the day, & the bar ran out of limes after making 4 caiperhinas.