Torre Hotel - Av. The JW Marriott Sao Paulo, with its superb restaurant and excellent fitness and spa facilities, offers wellness-focused hospitality in a city that was crying out for a one-stop-shop hotel for business travelers. When you're nursing your caipirinha at the JW Marriott Sao Paulo's Caju bar or surrendering to the practiced hands of your masseuse in its serene second-floor spa, you can be forgiven for forgetting that you're in the beating heart of Latin America's biggest and busiest metropolis.
Outside, Sao Paulo thunders to the rhythms of its notorious traffic and the footfall of industrious Paulistanos, but the greatest boon of the JW Marriott is that it delivers on its stated promise of offering guests an oasis in the most bustling of cities.
The property first briefly opened as the Four Seasons in , before the pandemic hit, then it was converted into the JW Marriott for its reopening in Located in the upscale business district of Chacara Santo Antonio, the Marriott caters to a mostly corporate clientele; its vast convention center and numerous meeting rooms betray the hotel's events-led strategy. Nevertheless, attentive details in the interior design lend the JW Marriott a more sophisticated and distinctly Brazilian character than some of the city's more cookie-cutter hotels serving the same market.
The elegant lobby, with its gleaming black marble and floor-to-ceiling mirrors, is furnished with decorations carved from Brazilian hardwoods by local artisans and artworks in the style of the legendary Sao Paulo-born designer Burle Marx adorn the walls throughout.
The lobby's centerpiece, the stylish Caju Bar, whips up classic cocktails with fresh local ingredients for a Brazilian twist. Beyond the bar is the impressive Venetian-plaster crimson staircase. Trimmed with gold, the staircase ascends to the events spaces above; perhaps a not-so-subtle reminder that corporate is king here. The Neto restaurant has been a fixture on the property since its days as the Four Seasons and apart from a gentle refurbishment, it has remained largely unchanged.
