Le Relais La Borie

Lovely, garden-filled, casually elegant, intimate hotel right on best beach in Buzios. Kind & patient staff bent over backwards to make sure we were comfortable. We booked a garden room thinking it would be more private & quiet, but the sea view rooms are definitely the best, and the hotel was kind enough to change our room for us. Beautiful views from these rooms & restaurant. On the calmest part of beach, with its own chairs & umbrellas. (Sundown in the hot tub with caprihinas is highly recommended.) Good breakfasts. Overall, we had a wonderful stay.

It is expensive, and the spare amenities in the rooms are not what some would expect for the price. Also, this is not a complaint, but an advisory: Laborie is on a public beach -- and though it has its own umbrellas & chairs -- you are in Brazil & mixing with everyone. Kids playing football, beach bars, surfers, hawkers -- it's a party sometimes! We loved it. But if you want a quiet & exclusive getaway where you're in a bubble of calm & could be anywhere in world...well...this is not that!