Friendly staff, but not 5 stars, in fact a long way below 5 star!! Had dinner in he revolving restaurant on the top floor, which resulted in a bad case of food poisoning for both of us...................so up all night running to the bathroom, not able to sample breakfast as feeling really bad in the morning. Only getting back to normal after 6 days!!! Nothing good to say as 6 days of my holiday have been badly effected by staying one night in this place. Beware!

I must say that the hotel is really bad and it would deserve 2 stars on 5. It is old, noisy, it smells bad. The rooms are old and the bed too soft because of the springs.
Even the breakfast is just decent, the juices are not fresh.
I really would recommend to find another place, it doesn't worth the money it costs.

I was told this was one of the best hotels in town but thats far from truth..
If they dont even have shampoo or any other amenities in the rooms, how can we ask about Wifi? Internet? if you are lucky, they may give you a cable in the lobby when you check in, I had to wait until nexy day to get a 3 ft cable.
Breakfast is regular, I tried the Guava juice and it was 90% water and 10% water, the papaya was tasteless and the pinneaple was acid, scrambled eggs were cold and tasteless...not a good experience, the coffee was good though!
If you think you can walk out of the resaturant and go to a nice restaurant a walking distance from the hotel..forget it, the area doesny look clean and/or safe.
Braziliansin the hotel are really nice and friendly but they dont speak English and this makes things hard when you try to eat or shop.

We liked this hotel. They did everything possible to make us comfortable and even asked us if we needed anything else.
The hotel was clean. The included buffet breakfast was good and it was located on the top floor of the hotel so it came with a view of the city.
The central location made it easy to walk around and enjoy some of the sites.
The 'tourist' hotels were more expensive and not as centrally located. The Taj Mahal Continental is not fancy in comparison to the five star hotels, but, for us was a real local treasure.