Apartamento Barra Tropical Residence

It's a safe place to stay while exploring Salvador, and the location is one of the best. The building looks good from the outside and is very well situated, with a decent supermarket, Perini, next door and a large mall beside it. Still, the apartments are small, and many have a kitchen sink so tiny it seems meant for a bathroom. I liked the pool, but it was dirty for 7 of the 10 days during the second week of March. I saw the pool worker test the water by tasting it before adding more chemicals. The pool edge has cracks and needs repair, and the tiles and their grout were dirty, with algae growing between them. The building gym is a joke. The space could be much better, but it lacks imagination. The gym bathrooms and shower had a sauna and were clean, but the toilets and shower looked like they belonged at a cheap truck stop. They couldn't even make the toilet walls straight. So bad, lol. People here somehow don't seem to mind. Brazil's economic situation hasn't been the best over the last couple of years, and hopefully the residence will improve as things get better.