Casas Brancas Boutique Hotel & Spa

Although Casas Brancas isn’t directly positioned on the beach, it overlooks Buzios’s Orla Bardot waterfront promenade and is a five-minute walk from the main street with its restaurants, bars and boutiques.

The hotel’s 32 guest rooms and suites are simply decorated with painted stone walls and floors, carefully selected furniture and artwork by local artists. Most rooms look out over the bay and the upper categories all have private balconies with beautiful ocean views.

The hotel’s features include two restaurants serving Mediterranean cuisine, one being a rooftop restaurant on one of the hotel’s terraces and the other is located on the waterfront promenade itself. For long lazy days on the beach, the hotel has its own exclusive Beach Lounge and Restaurant on Brava Beach, a five-minute drive from the hotel.

Other facilities include an outdoor swimming pool, yoga and tai chi classes and spa offering a range of beauty treatments and massages. For those who want to get out and about the hotel can arrange boat trips, bicycle rentals, snorkelling and diving trips as well as kite surfing and surfing lessons.