5 Stars Hotels in Parana, Brazil

Simply amazing hotel. All renovated. Impeccable facilities. Restaurants. Piano bar. Everything perfect. Tranquility and quality at the maximum limit. Highly specialized and attentive employees who make the difference. We go to Foz a lot and, for sure, we will return to Sanma. Congratulations to everyone at the hotel.

Great place to go with family and friends. Great place to go with kids. Good things: huge place with great variety of activites; external (cold) pool, internal (warm) pool, special pool with 6 slides for kids (and also grown up people ;) ), great food and variets (menu changes everyday). There is a place with rescued animals, nice tour along their ”farm” where many vegetables from the salad bar grow. Rooms are pretty fine, some humidity smell but there is not much to be done and nothing terrible. The things to be improved: I must say that a hotel MUST have people that speak other languages, at least English! Most of the people did not speak english nor spanish nor french nor any language apart from portuguese. At the end, we alywas made ourselves understood and got what we wanted but this is something that makes the difference between and Excellent place and The Best place. Another thing to be improved is the system that is used for charging consumptions; due to connectivity issues, they were many times duplicated. Also, related to the account, I found several room bar consumptions that were not done by us. They shold be more careful with this kind of things as I believe that not all the people checks this. Anyway, there are things to be improved but this did not prevented myself and my family from having a wonderful vacations on this hotel. We will definitely return and we are sure that the suggested things will then be solved. ;)

Our experience at the Belmond can only be described as magical. The hotel itself is beautiful, every member of staff were lovely, the cocktails at Bar Tarobá were incredible, and the pool was great - our whole stay could not have gone smoother. But, what makes this hotel so special is the access to the falls. Being inside the national park before and after it is open to the public is an unmissable experience - you only have to step foot outside of the lobby to be greeted with a beautiful view. We decided to walk the trail at sunset after it had closed to the public, and we were the only people there. During the day, as you can imagine, it can be packed, so being able to experience it privately was so unique - plus, it gave us the most amazing photo opportunities! As we were walking the trail we thought to ourselves ‘this in itself is an experience we’re sure some people would pay more than the price of the hotel for!’. It was an unforgettable evening to cherish forever. The hotel concierge was excellent, arranging wonderful experiences for us - including a boat trip (which they supply towels and ponchos for). After staying here on the Brazilian side, we stayed on the Argentinian side for two nights, but, if I were to go back and repeat this trip, I would definitely only stay at the Belmond and just do a day trip to the Argentinian side with the help of the concierge. The breakfast and lunch buffets at Ipê Restaurant were delicious, but our meal at Itaipu was stand out - by far the best meal we had in Brazil. Being so full after starter and main course but could not resist a dessert - you have to have dinner here! Having visited a number of other wonderful Belmond properties, it is without a doubt that this one is a favourite and would absolutely love to return. There is no question about it, you simply must stay here when visiting the falls - you will regret it if you don’t! And finally, this Belmond is absolutely incredible. Five stars is simply not enough. It is a seven star hotel.

Beautiful hotel, with great infrastructure. Very high cost of food and drink, which does not match the price paid per night.

My one-night stay was marred by the worst sound proofing I’ve ever encountered in a hotel. We were in a connecting room, and could hear every noise from next door as if it was in our room. Noise from the corridor was also bad. For what seems to be a new build hotel there were quite a few defects: the sound proofing, the bathroom door wouldn’t close properly, there were gaps in the main and connecting door frames letting light in. It’s clearly not the fault of the staff or management but it smacked of poor quality build (as did other signs of damage to the fabric of the building such as cracks in the exterior wall) and did impact our stay. That said, it’s a really nice hotel in many ways. There were so many positives about my stay: great service from staff, really good breakfast, excellent outdoor swimming pools. If it wasn’t for the noise and light issues I’d have given it five stars.

The hotel is perfectly located, around 10 minutes from the airport and about the same again to the entrance of Iguassu falls. Rooms were spacious and comfortable with huge beds but they were looking very tired and even battered in places and are in need of modernising. The balcony had no outdoor furniture which seemed strange. The main pool was freezing cold as were the smaller pools around the houses although I think this is the norm for Brazil? They were too cold for our kids to enjoy unfortunately. Our hot tub was also cold on arrival but a quick call to reception sorted this promptly. Reception staff were excellent, they were super helpful with any queries and helped us organise our excursions and spoke perfect English. Breakfast was excellent and evening dinner in the buffet was also good but it does get very busy in there at certain times. We didn’t use the other restaurants as we were on a half board package but the menus around the pool were good for lunch. Cocktails were also great and reasonably priced. There is a brilliant entertainment programme on throughout the day with various activities, including the high ropes course which was completely free of charge! We also enjoyed the games room in the kids club. The general feel of the whole resort felt like it was missing something and needs a lot of money investing into it. We were only there for 3 nights which felt like the perfect duration for what we had planned. The resort has the potential to be something really special but at the moment it is far from a luxury resort but a good base for visiting Iguassu Falls.

This is a nice, modern boutique small hotel in a nice neighbourhood with a few decent restaurants within a 10 min walk. We booked the Magnum room for 5 nights which was modern, clean and quiet at the rear of the property with very good aircon. The bathrooms are spacious with powerful showers. A few more coathangers in the wardrobes would be useful. We did not like the refillable ceramic bottles of shampoo, body lotion and conditioner. They were heavy to use, had no lids and the quality of the products mediocre. There us a small gym, restaurant but no bar. Drinks are served in the restaurant. The cocktails are excellent. Breakfast is included in the rate and is fine but would benefit from having croissants/viennoserie on offer as cake for breakfast is not usually eaten outside of Brazil. A better choice of cereal would be good as they are all commercially made and too sweet for Europeans. If you are looking for some activities we can recommend the cycle tours from Pedro at Xtreme travel as we took 3 of these. A very nice, well managed hotel with good staff.

Simply amazing hotel. All renovated. Impeccable facilities. Restaurants. Piano bar. Everything perfect. Tranquility and quality at the maximum limit. Highly specialized and attentive employees who make the difference. We go to Foz a lot and, for sure, we will return to Sanma. Congratulations to everyone at the hotel.

Great place to go with family and friends. Great place to go with kids. Good things: huge place with great variety of activites; external (cold) pool, internal (warm) pool, special pool with 6 slides for kids (and also grown up people ;) ), great food and variets (menu changes everyday). There is a place with rescued animals, nice tour along their ”farm” where many vegetables from the salad bar grow. Rooms are pretty fine, some humidity smell but there is not much to be done and nothing terrible. The things to be improved: I must say that a hotel MUST have people that speak other languages, at least English! Most of the people did not speak english nor spanish nor french nor any language apart from portuguese. At the end, we alywas made ourselves understood and got what we wanted but this is something that makes the difference between and Excellent place and The Best place. Another thing to be improved is the system that is used for charging consumptions; due to connectivity issues, they were many times duplicated. Also, related to the account, I found several room bar consumptions that were not done by us. They shold be more careful with this kind of things as I believe that not all the people checks this. Anyway, there are things to be improved but this did not prevented myself and my family from having a wonderful vacations on this hotel. We will definitely return and we are sure that the suggested things will then be solved. ;)

Our experience at the Belmond can only be described as magical. The hotel itself is beautiful, every member of staff were lovely, the cocktails at Bar Tarobá were incredible, and the pool was great - our whole stay could not have gone smoother. But, what makes this hotel so special is the access to the falls. Being inside the national park before and after it is open to the public is an unmissable experience - you only have to step foot outside of the lobby to be greeted with a beautiful view. We decided to walk the trail at sunset after it had closed to the public, and we were the only people there. During the day, as you can imagine, it can be packed, so being able to experience it privately was so unique - plus, it gave us the most amazing photo opportunities! As we were walking the trail we thought to ourselves ‘this in itself is an experience we’re sure some people would pay more than the price of the hotel for!’. It was an unforgettable evening to cherish forever. The hotel concierge was excellent, arranging wonderful experiences for us - including a boat trip (which they supply towels and ponchos for). After staying here on the Brazilian side, we stayed on the Argentinian side for two nights, but, if I were to go back and repeat this trip, I would definitely only stay at the Belmond and just do a day trip to the Argentinian side with the help of the concierge. The breakfast and lunch buffets at Ipê Restaurant were delicious, but our meal at Itaipu was stand out - by far the best meal we had in Brazil. Being so full after starter and main course but could not resist a dessert - you have to have dinner here! Having visited a number of other wonderful Belmond properties, it is without a doubt that this one is a favourite and would absolutely love to return. There is no question about it, you simply must stay here when visiting the falls - you will regret it if you don’t! And finally, this Belmond is absolutely incredible. Five stars is simply not enough. It is a seven star hotel.

Beautiful hotel, with great infrastructure. Very high cost of food and drink, which does not match the price paid per night.

My one-night stay was marred by the worst sound proofing I’ve ever encountered in a hotel. We were in a connecting room, and could hear every noise from next door as if it was in our room. Noise from the corridor was also bad. For what seems to be a new build hotel there were quite a few defects: the sound proofing, the bathroom door wouldn’t close properly, there were gaps in the main and connecting door frames letting light in. It’s clearly not the fault of the staff or management but it smacked of poor quality build (as did other signs of damage to the fabric of the building such as cracks in the exterior wall) and did impact our stay. That said, it’s a really nice hotel in many ways. There were so many positives about my stay: great service from staff, really good breakfast, excellent outdoor swimming pools. If it wasn’t for the noise and light issues I’d have given it five stars.

The hotel is perfectly located, around 10 minutes from the airport and about the same again to the entrance of Iguassu falls. Rooms were spacious and comfortable with huge beds but they were looking very tired and even battered in places and are in need of modernising. The balcony had no outdoor furniture which seemed strange. The main pool was freezing cold as were the smaller pools around the houses although I think this is the norm for Brazil? They were too cold for our kids to enjoy unfortunately. Our hot tub was also cold on arrival but a quick call to reception sorted this promptly. Reception staff were excellent, they were super helpful with any queries and helped us organise our excursions and spoke perfect English. Breakfast was excellent and evening dinner in the buffet was also good but it does get very busy in there at certain times. We didn’t use the other restaurants as we were on a half board package but the menus around the pool were good for lunch. Cocktails were also great and reasonably priced. There is a brilliant entertainment programme on throughout the day with various activities, including the high ropes course which was completely free of charge! We also enjoyed the games room in the kids club. The general feel of the whole resort felt like it was missing something and needs a lot of money investing into it. We were only there for 3 nights which felt like the perfect duration for what we had planned. The resort has the potential to be something really special but at the moment it is far from a luxury resort but a good base for visiting Iguassu Falls.

This is a nice, modern boutique small hotel in a nice neighbourhood with a few decent restaurants within a 10 min walk. We booked the Magnum room for 5 nights which was modern, clean and quiet at the rear of the property with very good aircon. The bathrooms are spacious with powerful showers. A few more coathangers in the wardrobes would be useful. We did not like the refillable ceramic bottles of shampoo, body lotion and conditioner. They were heavy to use, had no lids and the quality of the products mediocre. There us a small gym, restaurant but no bar. Drinks are served in the restaurant. The cocktails are excellent. Breakfast is included in the rate and is fine but would benefit from having croissants/viennoserie on offer as cake for breakfast is not usually eaten outside of Brazil. A better choice of cereal would be good as they are all commercially made and too sweet for Europeans. If you are looking for some activities we can recommend the cycle tours from Pedro at Xtreme travel as we took 3 of these. A very nice, well managed hotel with good staff.