Wa Hotel Caruaru

“Not Awful”

Caruaru is a town in the rural interior of Brazil, two hours from the city of Recife. Visitors may find themselves there for rural tourism, for the city's June "St. John" festival, or on business visiting the (literally) thousands of textile and clothing factories in the area. The WA Hotel isn'… lisää

Caruaru is a town in the rural interior of Brazil, two hours from the city of Recife. Visitors may find themselves there for rural tourism, for the city's June "St. John" festival, or on business visiting the (literally) thousands of textile and clothing factories in the area. The WA Hotel isn't awful, but it's not much. It's attached to one of the town's nicer shopping malls, so there is food, a cinema and improbably a bowling alley just downstairs. It's a pretty standard economy class hotel, small rooms that are simply appointed, relatively clean but nothing special. There is a free breakfast, but the dining room staff is undertrained is keeps forgetting to bring items out or set up the coffee or one thing or another. The wifi system is pretty good, a strong signal, but then the day I left, the whole wifi system was out of service, and the front desk couldn't even print out my bill, so maybe it's not so good after all. There is an odd elevator system, they have four elevators but one is used exclusively to bring guests from the ground floor to the reception desk, while another is used exclusively to bring guests from the reception area up to their rooms. The other two elevators are not used at all. It's awkward and inconvenient. The key cards are always getting demagnetized. It happened to me three times in a three-day stay, and it happened to every person in my group at least once. Frustrating and time consuming to have to run down to the front desk to get the card re-activated. The clerk always asks what the guest did to demagntize the card, as though their crappy card system is the guest's fault. What he or she should do is apologize three times, re-activate the card, and then apologize again. Overall, it's not a great hotel, but I'm not sure there's anything better in this city.

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“Ridiculously small room”

When my co-worked and I entered in the double room, we thought: What? There was no space at all. But breakfast is nice, in a very beautiful place. Location is by the side Shopping Caruaru. Parking is free.