Hotels and Pousadas in all price ranges from the simple to the Nobel are sufficient and available everywhere. In general, you pay per room, extra from the third person in an extra bed. Breakfast is included in the rule. Cleanliness is standard. Tourism in Brazil is about to be networked to the first. Information can be found usually only on site.
Motels: A warning first: a motel room is booked by the hour in Brazil and serves as a quiet place for sexual escapades. So try not to stay there. The presentation of these motels is quite clear, they are called “Venus” or “Club 69 ” and are decorated with bright neon signs. A normal tourist can not easily be lost in such a motel. Although it is not the real purpose is that you can spend the night there. Many motels have not only hourly prices but also prices for a whole night. The device is more appropriate, therefore, no wardrobe, desk, and no bright lights, but depending on price range if a larger bathtub (rare in Brazilian hotels). Breakfast is probably not usually included.
For unaccompanied travelers it is recommended that Portuguese can. Only about 25% of the population is literate in full. Infrastructure such as the “West ” (exit plans, signs, signposts, etc) are almost non-existent and are currently also requires very little. English is still seen as the language of dictatorships and, like South America in general, unwilling to speak in wall and necessarily only in the business world. Spanish and Portuguese is mutually intelligible. The mixture of the two languages is called colloquially Portuniol.
Carry gibberish Manual Portuguese and palm-sized dictionary in his pocket, which facilitates a lot: Tip. Have proved even pens and paper so that you can write down numbers as required or similar words or just visualize. At bus stations, the Brazil travel (city names) are listed in size, displayed at the counters on the PC monitors travel time, seat number and ticket price. The tellers are very helpful, tap a lack of understanding in driving prices into the calculator to balance. At city festivals or similar beverages from polystyrene cold boxes are sold: In the sticks are empty cans impaled as a model, so that the tourist, who can’t read or talk in Brazillian, need only point to the desired beverage.