Customer Travel Tips for Salvador
Customer Travel Tips for Salvador
Read a selection of great customer tips provided by HostelBookers customers like you
12 May 2018
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Visiting friends or family
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Pretty safe. Food is good.
Liked: Food
Disliked: The hills
03 Mar 2018
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Partying / nightlife
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Take care of your belongings ;)
Liked: ...
Disliked: ...
18 Aug 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family
Customer Travel Tip: Besides the very nice old town (which you have seen in one day), there is not much to do and see there. Better move on! ;) The beaches in the city are not worth it to stay another day!
Liked: The old town is really pretty!
Disliked: It's kind of a sleepy city... And were everyone tells you: It's really unsafe here!
13 Aug 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: O
Liked: O
Disliked: O
28 Apr 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Go for a couple days, visit the museum of modern art and sculpture part and sit in a restaurant with a bowl of traditional bahian stew and a few caipirinhas listening live music until they ask you to leave. It's wonderful.
Liked: The culture and history is great. Lots of beautiful architecture.
Disliked: It is very hard to go abut a normal day with out many homeless people begging for money or food. It can get a little tiring.
05 Mar 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Do a drumming or percussion class to learn about the music
Liked: Culture, music, music shops
Disliked: Supposedly very dangerous, people asking for money a lot and always saying to not walk down certain streets. This makes for a tense atmosphere which is not very comfortable. We also had food poisoning on our first night!
27 Jan 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Beach / sunbathing
Customer Travel Tip: Do not stay too long in Salvador and go to Praia do Forte, Imbassai or Itapua
Liked: People is very nice
Disliked: Too much trash and smelly
06 Jan 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Watch your belongings
Liked: Amazing vibe, lovely people, lively music/ nightlife, beautiful setting and architecture
Disliked: It can be a bit dangerous
19 Sep 2014
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Beach / sunbathing
Partying / nightlife
Customer Travel Tip: fique na Barra, vai no centro historico de dia,so na terça é bom de noite,
Liked: praias,musica,arte,pessoas,comidas
Disliked: o centro historico é perigoso à noite,os domingos as praias estão lotadas e não tem muito para fazer à noite
12 Sep 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Fort on the coast
Liked: Downtown
Disliked: Not so safe at night
07 Aug 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
City break
Events / festivals
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Walk, walk, walk!!
Liked: Culture, culture, culture!
Disliked: NO
25 Jul 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Stay at Galeria13 especially if you are traveling alone, you will for sure meet cool people over there;)
Liked: The hoste, the area where it is located.
Disliked: N/A
25 Jul 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Beauty and fun
Liked: Walkable center, free music show at night, good beaches for relaxing or surf
Disliked: Little bit unsafe, the public transport was a crazy thin
23 Jul 2014
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23 Jul 2014
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16 Jul 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: enjoy!
Liked: atmosphere
Disliked: crack heads
11 Jul 2014
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: stay for the beaches, but get out to smaller parts of the coast
Liked: the city beaches were fantastic and the barra area provided some excellent sunset watching.
Disliked: the bus transportation was awful
28 Jun 2014
Customer Travel Tip: Learn Portuguese and keep your wits about you
Liked: Pelourinho, the beaches
Disliked: Every restaurant adding and over charging on the bill, pick pockets everywhere. Not organised or prepared
26 Jun 2014
Customer Travel Tip: Nothing
Liked: Nothing
Disliked: Nothing
23 Jun 2014
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Events / festivals
Partying / nightlife
Customer Travel Tip: Try to discover the beaches outside of Salvador as well
Liked: Old town
Disliked: no