Hotel Blumenhof

Nice view over the river into town, and adjacent to the old locomotive bridge which you can stroll across into the town centre. Breakfast overlooking the bridge and river is a nice start to the day.

Although the hotel advertised that they speak English (part of the reason why we chose the place - since our Portuguese is practically nonexistent) it seemed that none of the staff did. As a result, there was a minor complication at checkout whereby we had paid upfront (with an added charge for breakfast) and had been undercharged at check-in, and were presented with a bill for the remainder of our stay at checkout without an intelligible explanation (due to language barrier) which was a little disconcerting. In the end, they were correct (the difference was about R$150), but we would have preferred dealing with this sooner and it did leave us a little disconcerted being presented a bill upon depature. We understand that mistakes do happen and this would all have been okay, but it is annoying when they held themselves out as speaking English (and we have factored this into our assessment when choosing the place).