Visit Florianopolis

1. Hotel Mercure Apartments Florianopolis Lindacap
The location of this Mercure hotel is excellent, especially when you are for work/business in Florianopolis: in the center of Florianopolis, close to the Hercilio Luz Bridge.
We tend to like Accor hotels and decided to give the Mercure a try this September.  The street is a quiet and safe one, the building OK and the staff is extremely friendly and helfpful.
However, the rooms are horrifying.  The interior must date of the late 80s, completely worn out and cold.  The bed matrass was equally old and just had a sheet on it (it gets below 10° in September in Floripa).  We decided not to stay there (even though it was 10pm) and decided to check out again and look for another hotel.   The staff was again very friendly and helpful.  They said renovations were planned and that the architects already made a mockup room for the revamp.  They even offered us to change to this room, which we kindly thanked for (and regretted afterwars, even only for the sake of having checked it out).
Conclusion: avoid until interior renovation completed.
The price was competitive at 150 R$ a night (negotiated price) for a double (Accor ‘hot deals’).  However, chances are this rate will no longer exist after renovation.

2. Pousada da Vigia
The site of Pousada da Vigia will make you dream. The reality however is different.  At the rate of 230 R$ in low season and 750 R$ in high season for a double room, it is seriously overpriced for the experience offered.

• The pousada is at Praia da Lagoinha in the North of the island. It seems idyllic on the picture of the website, but the place from where the picture is taken is actually an ugly beach. The architecture destroyed it completely and this is the view you’ll have from your room.
• You are far from everything. There’s nothing to do around, even no restaurants. If you want a decent restaurant at night, you’ll have to drive at least 10km.
• The Pousada is big, but actually build on a very small plot. Contrary to what you might think from the picture it has no private beach and even not a private access to the beach. You need to makea quite big detour to get to the beach.
• The Pousada is old and shabby. I don’t understand how they ever received the ‘Hotel de Charme” mark back in 2004.
• The breakfast is ok, but to Brazilian norms not more than average.

For that price you ought to get a much better experience. To avoid at all cost !

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