Comfort, rather than luxury, is the keyword to the best hotels in Cuiabá. Upgrades and renovations have kept the city's leading hotels up to par with the needs of business travelers and tourists, many of whom choose the capital of Mato Grosso as their gateway to Northern Pantanal.
Brazil's famous wetlands are often present in theme decorations and in the generous breakfast with regional treats served at these hotels, most of which are located in central areas where you'll find banks, stores, and some of the city's best bars and restaurants.
1. Deville Hotel
The top hotel in Cuiabá is a 15-minute ride from the airport, in one of the city’s best neighborhoods. It has 17 floors and 174 guest rooms. Rooms spring box beds, A/C, a TV, a work table and internet access. Amenities include an outdoor pool with a bar, a fitness center, a business center and shops.
Accessibility: Two wheelchair-accessible guest rooms.
2. Golden Tulip Pantanal (formerly Odara)
Service is one of the top reasons to stay at the Golden Tulip Pantanal. For example, the hotel offers guests the Breaking Dawn Breakfast to help with the early flights departing from Cuiabá; airport transfers and internet access are included in the rates. The hotel has 104 rooms decorated in a clean, unfussy style, a pool, and business facilities.
Accessibility: One wheelchair-accessible guest room.
3. Intercity Premium Cuiabá
Opened in 2004, the Intercity Premium is nicely located near the restaurants and bars of the Goiabeiras district. All the rooms have tile floors, A/C, a work desk, a safe deposit box, a mini refrigerator, cable TV and free internet access. The hotel’s leisure area has a pool, a fitness center with Pilates, a restaurant, a bar and a convention center. There’s 24-hour room service.
Accessibility: One wheelchair-accessible guest room.
4. Amazon Plaza Hotel
The Pantanal inspires the design of the common areas at the Amazon Plaza: tropical plants surround the pool with a waterfall, paintings of indigenous people and Pantanal scenes cover the ceiling and walls in the common areas. The tile-floored guest rooms are sparsely decorated.
Accessibility: Two wheelchair-accessible guest rooms.
5. Delcas Hotel
Located less than 20 minutes from the airport, the Delcas has 76 apartments, a pool and a restaurant serving regional and international food.
6. Global Garden Hotel
With easy access to the business district and an up-to-date business infrastructure, the Global Garden also gives attention to leisure: large gardens, a pool, a waterfall and a barbecue ares help businesspeople and families relax.
The hotel has 71 guest rooms, some of them with king size beds and all of them with laminate flooring, A/C, a TV, a mini refrigerator and a safe deposit box.
7. Le Soleil Residence
In the Goiabeiras district, known for its restaurants and Bars, the Soleil Residence has apartments with a living area, a fully equipped kitchen and a barbecue grill.
8. Paiaguás Palace Hotel
With 134 tile-floored guest rooms, the Paiaguás is a good option for groups of business travelers as well as for families: it’s located in Cuiabá’s financial center and has a strong convention structure, but it also has a pool with a barbecue grill and a solarium, toys for the kids and a restaurant serving full meals (breakfast is included in rates).
Accessibility: Two wheelchair-accessible rooms.
9. Hotel Taiamã Plaza
The hotel is like an anteroom to Pantanal in a central Cuiabá location. Paintings, folk art objects and native plants, a waterslide painted like a snake are some of the details reminding guests that they’re not far from Brazil’s famous wetlands. The hotel has 121 guest rooms, a pool with a bar and a fitness room.
10. Fazenda Mato Grosso
Located about four miles from Cuiabá's center, the hotel named for and located on a farm is best for the traveler who can't wait to see Mato Grosso nature and don't mind seeing local fauna in a mini zoo.
The hotel has 51 guest rooms, a convention center, two swimming pools (one for kids), a soccer field and sports courts. Guests get a discount at the company's Hotel Mato Grosso Águas Quentes, in Mato Grosso's hot springs region about 50 miles from the capital.
