I have to day I found the location and price of this Hotel (cheap through Hostelworld) very affordable, I ready some online critizim of the neighborhood, but honestly if your coming to Sao Paulo...there are no nice neishborhoods with hotels.

This is a realy good place to see the whole of Centro on foot from, plus there are plenty of bars and restraunts 5 mins walk away, ok you have bums sleeping on the road and transexaul hookers on the corners but this is Brazil.

Only critism are:

My Single Room is very small (but not as small as the room I had in Rio), there is no A/C in my room , just a fan(so just leave the fridge door open). They dont have safes or even safety deposit boxes (so leave the lights and th TV on all the time to create the illusion of some being in the room). The walls are very thin and like many latins, other customers at the hotel a noisy into the early hours.

The breakfast started well but went down hill after 2 days, first the hot food (only one dish of Scambled Eggs or Boild Sausage) stopped, then the juice stopped. So it was bread roles with cheese and ham or cornflakes, with coffee.

Only one of the 2 of the staff speak any English (the younger 2) but they were very helpfull.

I would definately stay here again for the price and centralness of the location.