Olman Melendez-Pal's Blog – May 2016 Archive (2)

And most importantly, should you get one?

Times of travel agencies are long gone. Those days when people were ripped off to fly around the corner and stay at a crappy 2 star hotel. Sometimes you got a good deal but mostly on last minute trips, when operators weren’t able to sell all of their packages. They have to fill those charter planes somehow, right? Unfortunately most of us don’t have the luxury of leaving on short notice and vacations need to be planned months…

Before I get into my (not so) comprehensive review a quick note. The hotel was called both Santa Teresa Hotel and Relais et Chateaux Santa Teresa in the past. Recently it was acquired by the Accor Hotel Group and in April 2016, it was rebranded as Santa Teresa Hotel RJ MGallery by Sofitel. 

Where is it? 

I was familiar with this hotel well before I even booked our tickets to Rio. I found it on Instagram and knew right away it’ll be our home when…