Best Family-Friendly Hotels and Flats in Bauru

Stays in Bauru

Parents travelling with small children tend to choose the kitchenette first and the pool second, and Bauru makes that easy. Aries Apart Hotel fits its family rooms with a refrigerator, a microwave, a stovetop and a balcony, which turns a hospital week into something manageable. Hotel Alfa de Bauru pairs its kitchenette family rooms with a child-friendly buffet, a lounge and an outdoor seating area, and it keeps a 24-hour front desk and full-day security for late arrivals off the Marechal Rondon highway. Both include free private parking, though Alfa's is off-site rather than in the building.

Families who want the children occupied without leaving the property look to the four-star tier near Avenida Getulio Vargas. Astron Hotel Bauru by Nobile has a semi-olympic lap pool and sits in an upscale part of the city 1.5 km from Avenida Nacoes Unidas, with a Brazilian restaurant on site. Biazi Plaza Hotel Bauru goes further with an indoor pool as well as an outdoor one, a sun terrace, a sauna and a billiards table, which matters in July when the interior mornings turn cold. Both take pets, and Biazi Plaza sits four kilometres from Bauru Airport.

Budget-minded families and larger groups get more from the plain central hotels than the star ratings suggest. Astor Hotel stands 100 metres from Avenida Nacoes Unidas with room service, a restaurant serving regional and international dishes, and free private parking, and it has collected more than a thousand reviews at 8.4. Alvorada Palace Hotel offers family rooms with air conditioning and a buffet breakfast at the lowest end of the scale. Vitoria Regia Hotel Bauru sits on Avenida Nacoes Unidas itself with a pool and sunloungers, two kilometres from the Bauru bus station.

Bauru is a working town in the interior paulista, built where the old Noroeste do Brasil railway met the highways, and it has never pretended to be a resort. Its rhythm is set by the university campuses, the Centrinho hospital and the shops along Avenida Nacoes Unidas, which means restaurants fill early and empty by ten. Weekends belong to families at the Vitoria Regia park and the municipal zoo, and the city is small enough that children are visible everywhere.