Novotel Rio de Janeiro Barra da Tijuca

The hotel as with most hotels in rio is quite run down. The swimming pool area doesn’t look as nice as the pictures and so as the rooms. Reception quite busy at all times.

Never again in this hotel. We knew that Novotel are very average hotels but this one turned out to be a big disaster for us visiting Rio de Janeiro all the way from India. Talking about the location first, this hotel is situated on Barra beach miles away from every tourist attraction of Rio. There is no restaurant or a decent eatery anywhere less than 3Km distance from the hotel. This is quite important as the restaurant in the hotel is almost non-existent. Talking about the hotel, it is below par in every sense of this world. Very ordinary rooms, no water or tea/coffee in the room. How can you you have no water served in the room in such warm weather. The staff are like robots making no eye contact with you ever. The breakfast is awful with no live counter for eggs and horrible coffee machine. Wi-Fi sucks. The gym and swimming pool are a joke. All the available space has been conveyed into 230 rooms. Please stay away from this hotel.