Zagaia Eco Resort

Zagaia On the positive side - Great infrastructure and recreational staff for kids Beautiful grounds Travel agency that books your activities in Bonito for you. Good breakfast. Very nice and attentive staff at the restaurant. Comfortable large beds. Curtains that block the light completely. On the negative side - Be prepared to arrive for a late afternoon check in, with extra slow, untrained front desk service, and no help with your suitcases and finding your room in the dark (no resort maps available). The rooms face each other and don’t have a set of sheer curtains. When you’re in the room you have to close the blackout curtains and no light comes in. No closet in the room. Instead, there’s a bar with three hangers and a shelf in the bathroom. No drawers. The bathroom has no windows. Anything you wash and hang in the bathroom will never dry. Bathrooms have three extremely loud exhaust fans each. Housekeeping routinely cleans empty rooms and leaves the exhaust fans on (together with the lights). Be prepared to hear exhaust motors all night. We realized what the noise was after two difficult nights, and had them turned off in the neighboring room. Terrible room maintenance: Upon arrival, we noticed that the phone in the room wasn’t working and we had that changed. The showers have a rubber strip on the floor to keep the water from flooding the bathroom. Half of our rubber strip was missing. Maintenance said it would be replaced the next day, but this never happened because they had to order the piece. The front desk asked us to change rooms, which would have been work for us, but housekeeping found a bandaid solution by wrapping a towel in a plastic bag and using that to dam the water in the shower stall. One leaky sink, and the other stopped up - never fixed despite two calls to the front desk which leads me to: Terrible front desk service (and not just checking in). We once forgot a bikini that was left out to dry on a bench near the front door. We noticed on the road and called the front desk to have someone put it in the room for us, and it was still on the bench when we returned in the afternoon. Be prepared to come back to your room at 5:05pm after a long day of activities, to find that housekeeping didn’t clean your room. Then call the front desk and nothing happens. The solution was to speak to the manager of the front desk, who personally brought the one and only housekeeper on duty that tends to emergencies after 5pm. Had to help her to do the bed in order to speed things up. Such a shame because I was here twenty years ago and it used to be an excellent hotel. Will not return, as there is now a better option available.

This wasn't the greatest fit for us. They only had one person at the entire resort that spoke English. We we arrived in the evening they didn't seem prepared for us. Luckily the one English speaker was working. She (Ruth) was a sweetheart, but they got lost taking us to our room in the golf cart and when we arrived, it seemed as if this building wasn't ready for guests. There was no hot water in the shower or sinks, we had no hand towels or water glasses. Just very disorganized. We got the water fixed in the sink the next day, but had to have them come back to get the hot water in the shower working. The resort itself is very nice, but it's really setup for families and kids. And, there were a lot there. This isn't really a problem for us, but, once again, probably not the best fit. We would have been better off in a resort in the downtown area where we could visit the cute little downtown. The room, once we got the water problem fixed was fine. Big, nice bed. The sinks, however are tiny. The swim-up bar was nice and everyone was nice enough trying to figure out our English and their Portuguese. The pool areas were pretty. The food at breakfast and Dinner was pretty standard buffet fare. Looked like they had some special food for the weekend, but we were there during the week.

The wonderful team at Zagaia were amazing! ! The resort has all the facilities we needed and it was the kids favourite part of our Brazilian holiday! The kids club recreacio was AMAZING!!!!!!! Tio Xuxa, Tio Mancha, Tio Leo, Tia Flor, Tio Lino, Tia Geleia Tia Japa and Tia Coquinho made sure our kids (Mirella 8 and Dante 5) had the absolute best time. We are from Australia and didn’t speak much Portuguese, but the teachers and their friends and other kids helped as translators. We had so much fun and learnt so much! Our kids will be talking about their favourite teachers from Brazil for their entire lives! The staff were the highlight of the resort! Will will remember staying here forever! THANK YOU!!!!!

Resort completo e perfeito para crianças e adolescentes, com muitas atividades. Área externa com diversas piscinas e ambientes (piscina infantil, piscina com borda infinita, piscina aquecida, bangalôs com jacuzzis, entre outras). Muitas opções (quadras e academia) para a prática de esportes, com equipamentos fornecidos pelo hotel. Equipe muuuuuiiito atenciosa, especialmente os recreacionistas (“tio Carioca” não poderia ser mais simpático e conquistou a garotada!). Super recomendo. Importante ter um local para relaxar e se refrescar após os passeios, pois faz muito calor em Bonito! O Zagaia superou as expectativas da minha família!

O hotel em si é bom, bastante atividade para as crianças e bastante pessoas ajudando com as crianças. A comida é excelente, muita opção boa no café da manhã e no jantar. Os quartos que deixam a desejar pois a estrutura é antiga, a porta do banheiro é transparente, então é meio estranho usar se tiver família grande no quarto.

Um das melhores viagens que já fiz. Hotel perfeito pra relaxar, muita coisa legal pra fazer com programações muito divertidas tanto para criança quanto para adultos. Um elogio especial ao tio carioca, que melhorou a viagem em 100%, uma pessoa incrível que anima qualquer um. Elogio também o tio peter, muuuito engraçado e receptivo. Já estou ansiosa pra voltar! ❤️