Best Apartment Hotels and Flats in Bauru

Stays in Bauru

Long-stay travellers judge an apart-hotel by the kitchen, and only a handful in Bauru pass that test properly. Aries Apart Hotel equips its family rooms with a refrigerator, a microwave, a stovetop and a balcony, and it offers grocery delivery, private check-in and luggage storage, which suits an arrival at an odd hour off a long drive. Uniflat Hotel Bauru pairs in-room kitchenettes with a shared kitchen and an outdoor seating area, and adds free on-site private parking. Both sit far enough from the Marilia Airport road to stay quiet at night.

Business travellers on a fortnight in the interior paulista tend to want the desk and the restaurant as much as the kitchen. Intercity Bauru, a four-star with almost 1,800 reviews at 8.7, gives every room a work desk, a minibar and bathrobes, with a Brazilian restaurant serving the buffet breakfast and paid on-site parking. Tulip Inn Bauru answers with a rooftop swimming pool, a fitness centre, a sun terrace and a garden alongside its work desks. Neither has a kitchenette in the strict sense, and travellers who need one should book elsewhere.

Families and students staying a month lean towards the mid-range flats near the centre, where the maths works hardest. Flat Saint Paul Residence is a kilometre from Bauru Centre with balconies, minibars and a rooftop swimming pool, and the bars and restaurants of Avenida Getulio Vargas sit within walking distance. Copaiba Palace Hotel adds a traditional Brazilian restaurant serving dinner, a garden and free off-site private parking. Hotel Cidade De Bauru keeps the price lowest of the three, with parquet floors, city views and valet parking in the city centre.

This is a university and hospital city more than a tourist one, and its accommodation reflects that. Bauru fills each semester with students at the USP dentistry faculty and families attending the Centrinho, so the stock skews towards weekly rates, kitchenettes and quiet residential bairros, the Brazilian term for a city neighbourhood. Evenings gather on Avenida Getulio Vargas, where the bars and restaurants stay open latest, while the streets near the Bauru Museum empty by nine.