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Reviews of Hotel Columbia

3 out of 5
Hotel Columbia
Rua dos Timbiras, 492, Republica, São Paulo, SP

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 95 out of 442 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 190 out of 442 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 118 out of 442 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 19 out of 442 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 20 out of 442 reviews" "

8.0/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

7.6/10

Amenities

7.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disappointing
The area was extremely run down and we were told my several taxi drivers to be careful that it was dangerous. The internet did not connect once on any device and when talking to reception they told us the signal was weak. None of the staff spoke any English so it was difficult to even communicate through google translate with no internet. The air conditioning made a lot of noise when turned on. There was blaring music from a bar on the street below which also seemed to have the sound carried through the AC. I would not reccomend staying here.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

JASON

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2020

10/10 Excellent

Lois, Chicago

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
For the price and location it was great!! I will go back for sure.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
NIce Stay
Central location but neighborhood a bit sketchy. Staff was warm and welcoming. Breakfast was on par for Brazil.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

8/10 Good

robrerto, Boston - MA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Nice, close to city center. Close to subway,
The hotel staff was very helpful and the hotel location is very close to all business related areas of São Paulo. Subway is 3 blocks away.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

6/10 Okay

Olivia, Ireland

Met our needs
Pleasant stay at hotel columbia, basic room and shower. Buffet breakfast was good. Location was central but loud on the streets at night.

6/10 Okay

star

Disliked: Staff & service
Easy access to downtown
I just stayed for a night but it was a good experience can't complain. I would stay other times there due to the fact that is close to downtown and near places that you can get some food because they don't have a kitchen that you can order room service so that's the only negative about the hotel that I can point out.

8/10 Good

SADANAND , MUMBAI INDIA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A good hotel in city center. Easy excess.
Comfortable stay. Good location, near to city shopping and most of the must see places around. Rooms are comfortable however coffee maker and oven should have been there in the rooms. excellent cleaniless. Good and helpful hotel staff. Nice breakfast. Quite safe location. Resonable hotel for short stop over.
Response from Hotel Columbia Team on Apr 8, 2016
Thank for your feedback, all comments will be considered in our staff meetings focused on improving our services

8/10 Good

Paul, Indiana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fine for the price
The only negative aspect of this hotel is the run-down neighborhood. Easy access to the metro and other downtown locations somewhat compensates for this. Otherwise, everything was great. The breakfasts were fabulous!

8/10 Good

selorm, Ghana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
nice place
Very friendly staff. but not all speak english. a night without english staff can turn out to be a nightmare. make requests in advance if travelling with a baby. the staff are nice & helpful.

6/10 Okay

Nick, Devon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Location
The hotel is very close to the old center of Sao Paulo if you really need to be there.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Columbia Review
Centrally located, not very good area at night. Excellent breakfast buffet. Reasonable price considering Sao Paulo's

6/10 Okay

Chris, Manchester UK

Liked: Cleanliness
Comfortable enough for a week's stay
The hotel is right in the centre of Sao Paolo next to some quite seedy areas but also to Praça da República and the República metro station. It is therefore noisy 24 hours per day. The hotel staff were friendly but basically didn't speak English, so get ready with your phrase book or sign language if you don't speak Brazillian Portuguese. Breakfast is reasonably good if not variable. In addition to bread buns, cold meats and cheese, they had papaya, watermelon & bananas, lots of cakes (Brazillians really seem to like cakes for breakfast, very decadent!) and even condensed milk pudding (like a sort of creme caramel). The hot offering was a sort of scrambled egg mixture with ham and onions in it and some sausages (frankfurters) in a light tomato sauce. Overall a good start to the day. I didn't eat dinner there. The one day I ventured to the restaurant there was one person in it. Instead I very much recommend the Rodizio across the road. No English speakers there but all you can eat of barbecued meat of all shapes and sizes at a very reasonable cost. Easy to get about as there is a taxi rank right outside the hotel.

10/10 Excellent

Anthony B

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good Experience
I enjoyed my stay at Hotel Columbia. The staff were very friendly and some spoke english (which helped). The breakfast was buffet style with an ok selection of items. The hotel is in the city center so it is older, but I sort of like that charm. Just know if you prefer things to be completely modern, you will not like it. All in all, it was clean which is the most important. A/C worked fine and there were no problems with the internet. There are several networks you can use, so which ever picks up the best signal. The comfort of the beds could be a little better, but it wasnt horrible. Windows have a metal draw down which is great if you want to sleep in without the sunlight coming through. The surrounding neighborhood can be a bit seedy and seem dangerous because of the people hanging out and some vagrants, but to be fair, I noticed that through just about the entire city. It sort of reminded me of San Francisco in that sense. (Again, nothing directly against the hotel, because it was all over). All in all, I would stay there again. Also, from the airport (GRU) it is very easy to use the airport bus to Praca Republica and the hotel was a 7 minute walk away. With traffic, the bus took about 50 minutes, but I flew home on a Sunday and it only took 30 minutes to get back to the airport from Praca Republica. (The airport bus has an office in Praca Republica).

10/10 Excellent

Miss R C

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel staff, some things were old in the room like the air-con but it was all in working order. Rooms had been recently decorated and the room was very clean. Lots of channels on the TV. Bed was a bit hard so you wouldn´t want to stay more than a few nights. Nice variety on offer at breakfast. Easy to get taxis/metro. Lots of leaflets in the lobby of things to do and places to eat. Overall decent place to stay. There´s also a small gym and quite a special star trek like lift.

8/10 Good

Thiago

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Considerando a localização central, o hotel tem boas condições. O café da manhã poderia ser mais variado. O quarto é bom e o banheiro amplo.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

RAQUEL

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Oswaldo Fumikazu Sato

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Lucas

Traveled with family
De uma maneira geral razoável/bom custo benefício, para dormir e tomar um banho.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

MILDA

Liked: Staff & service
Bom pelo custo beneficio em se tratar do localizaç
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Justo com o valor que cobra
Pelo valor da diária está compatível. Não tem luxo e nem muita opção para o café da manhã, então se enquadra bem. Único ponto negativo do local, é a onde está localizado. Infelizmente é uma região perigosa, então pra quem está indo pela primeira vez em SP tem que tomar cuidado.
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Saverio

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Aline

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

GUILHERME

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Avaliacao regular
Estadia foi tranquila, mas na chegada tivemos a surpresa do estacionamento ser pago (no anuncio nao consta nada sobre pagamento, consta que tem estacionamento no local (como viajo muito, muitos hoteis tem o servico de estacionamento sem custo). Se é cobrado precisa ser claro no anuncio no momento da locacao do quarto. Um dos atendentes na recepcao nao atende a contento, pedi para pagar o estacionamento no credito e gerou o pagamento no debito e ficou uma situacao muito ruim. No quarto nao tinha toalhas e sabonete, tive que buscar com a camareira
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

2/10 Terrible

André

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Oswaldo Fumikazu Sato

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

Ricardo

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Elogio
Hotel muito organizado com funcionários educados, prestativos e atenciosos.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

Mário

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Péssima escolha!
Velho, mal cuidado, aparência de sujo, restos de sabonete no banheiro, frigobar entulhado de gelo, café da manhã com poucas opções, mal feitas e mesas lambuzadas (parece que passam o mesmo pano em todas). Entorno do hotel com muito lixo e moradores de rua. Atendente de check-in não sabia informações do hotel alegando que trabalhava em outro. Atendente do checkout, estava ao telefone, discutindo, aparentemente num dia ruim e praticamente não nos viu na hora da devolução da chave. Neste ponto, parece que falta gestão.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

Andre

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Bacana
Tranquilo só o Wi-Fi não tinha internet
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

ewerson

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Custo benefício
É um hotel pra passar um dia. Sabonete usado na batente da janela, saboneteira suja, cabelo de outro hóspede no chão do banheiro. O chuveiro simplesmente horrível, água fria em conta gota, água quente estava fervendo pelando de queimar a pele, saia fumaça, muito forte. Quase impossível tomar banho. Cafe da manhã capenga, mas deu pra comer bem. Wifi não funciona. O travesseiro parecia uma folha de papel. Mas no geral era confortável pra ficar um dia, um bom custo benefício, ar condicionado bom. Recomendo pelo valor
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

Oswaldo Fumikazu Sato

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

10/10 Excellent

Fabrício

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

6/10 Okay

Maiara

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

8/10 Good

Lidia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2022

2/10 Terrible

Jean

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

8/10 Good

George

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

6/10 Okay

Marcelo

Business traveler
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Precisa Evoluir e melhorar
O Hotel muito antigo com poucos recursos e conforto . Por exemplo não dispõem de jantar no hotel .
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

6/10 Okay

Reginaldo

Traveled with group
Liked: Staff & service
Apartamento espaçoso, porém muito antigo. Merece uma atualização.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Severino

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Recomendo
Gostei e recomendo.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Matheus

Traveled with group, Business traveler, Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

MARCUS

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Dentro do esperado
Quarto em boas condições, chuveiro muito bom. Hóspedes barulhentos. Café da manhã médio. A localização é boa mas a vizinhança não está das melhores. O estacionamento com manobrista funciona muito bem. Bom custo/benefício.
Stayed 8 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Marcos Kleber

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Precisa chave eletrônica melhor e ar condicionado invocao
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

wellington

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Euler dias de souza

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Glaucia

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness
Hotel simples, compatível com preço Café da manhã com poucas opções
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Alessandra

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022