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Hotel Nacional

Rua Shs Quadra 1 Bloco a Quadra 01 - Bloco A, Brasilia, Federal District 70322-900 Brazil
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#37 of 82 hotels in Brasilia
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Hotel Nacional is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Brasilia, offering a family-friendly environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.

Guest rooms offer amenities such as a minibar and air conditioning, and guests can go online with wifi offered by the hotel.

Hotel Nacional features room service, to help make your stay more enjoyable. The property also boasts a pool and free breakfast. If you are driving to Hotel Nacional, free parking is available.

Nearby landmarks such as Itamaraty Palace (1.3 mi) and Congresso Nacional (1.6 mi) make Hotel Nacional a great place to stay when visiting Brasilia.

Travellers looking to enjoy some shrimp can head to Coco Bambu Lago Sul, Coco Bambu Brasília Shopping, or Manzua. Otherwise, you may want to check out a sushi restaurant such as New Koto, Kojima, or Nippon Restaurant.

Brasilia is also known for some great art museums, including Caixa Cultural Brasília and Museu de Arte Moderna, which are not too far from Hotel Nacional.

Enjoy your stay in Brasilia!

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Property amenities
Free parking
Wifi
Pool
Fitness Centre with Gym / Workout Room
Free breakfast
Business Centre with Internet Access
Conference facilities
Baggage storage
Paid wifi
Indoor pool
Outdoor pool
Bar / lounge
Restaurant
Breakfast available
Breakfast buffet
Swimup bar
Banquet room
Meeting rooms
24-hour front desk
Laundry service
Ironing service
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Air conditioning
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Telephone
Minibar
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Non-smoking rooms
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HOTEL CLASS
5.0 of 5 stars
HOTEL STYLE
Classic
Business
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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YouBeeTs wrote a review Dec 2019
Trieste, Italy763 contributions348 helpful votes
A huge, decadent hotel which saw much better times. The general atmosphere is gloomy, everything is old and badly needs refurbishing. However the general experience is not bad: rooms are big, mine had a great view on the monumental area, the bed is good, and breakfast is excellent. Walking distance from the monumental area. The restaurant serves quite decent food and is open till midnight. Again on the negative side: the personnel are quite grumpy, even impolite; apparently nobody speaks any English (quite strange in a big hotel in the capital city); no power outlets near the bed; the room is equipped with a huge very old fridge (I would date it to the 70s) which is stocked with a few cans and is very noisy. Internet is stable but quite slow.
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Date of stay: December 2019
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Peter S wrote a review Sept 2019
Basel, Switzerland138 contributions95 helpful votes
I stayed for a meeting. This is a huge hotel, typical for Brasilia - and in need of modernization. Check-in was smooth but nobody spoke English. The room was fine in terms of size, but you hear everything as there is poor sound insulation. A small desk allows working in the room, the internet is surprisingly slow. The bed was good, also the aircon/heater. The bathroom was old-fashioned and not very practical. Breakfast was a huge buffet of acceptable quality, the restaurant serves OK food around the pool. Taxis are available in front of the hotel but souvenirs are not.
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Date of stay: June 2019
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Procaccia wrote a review Mar 2019
Ness Ziona, Israel392 contributions311 helpful votes
I was told that Hotel Nacional was the first hotel built in Brasilia. Indeed, it is built like a grand hotel. Unfortunately it is not maintained as a grand hotel. My suite was huge, with living room, bed room, entry hall and a large bath room, but with the plastic flowers and the oil color painted wardrobes it was depressing. Worse, the internet did not work, and although I was promised that a technician will come to fix it "in five minutes" this prediction did not materialize for the two days that I was there. This meant that I could not work in my room, adding to my sour mood. The breakfast is OK, but once I had dinner, and the buffet offered was not good. The view from my suite was rather ugly as well. If you can, take your business somewhere else.
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Date of stay: March 2019
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leandro wrote a review Jul 2018
Campinas, SP155 contributions74 helpful votes
Hotel Nacional is a Brasília landmark. Upon arrival there is a huge desk. The white lights from the ceiling and dark wood provide a strange atmosphere. A plaque celebrates the visit of Queen Elisabeth, near an impressive Mario Cravo sculpture. My room was huge, with a living room and two bathrooms. Furniture is absolutely dated in the 1960s or 70s. Artificial flowers complete the kitsch atmosphere. The main bathroom was very big. The shower was very good. Breakfast is good but very busy. They have a tapioca with eggs and cheese which is remarkable. Internet access is free but very bad. The long corridors are only illuminated where you are, resulting in a creepy feeling. I remembered the long corridors of "The Shining". A hint: avoid walking in the streets surrounding the hotel at night.
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Date of stay: June 2018
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Lord s wrote a review Apr 2018
Rotselaar, Brabant, Belgium56 contributions12 helpful votes
A bit of an older hotel (I was told the oldest in DF) and it shows, it needs some freshing up. But the staff is extremely helpfull and friendly, the bar is pleasant and breakfast is very good. The rooms are spacious but again a bit ouf of fashion.
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Date of stay: April 2018
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Thiago wrote a review Dec 2017
Curitiba, PR2059 contributions185 helpful votes
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First of all, it is very important to point out that lodging in Brasilia is expensive. So, the basic comfort is not cheap. Taking this into account, it is possible to say that Hotel Nacional offers a comfortable stay at a reasonable price. As many comments indicate, the hotel's structure is old (I'd describe its structure as traditional). However, this feature does not compromise the quality of room facilities: reasonable wi-fi, very tasty breakfast, TV with a wide variety of channels, good size, comfortable bed, an air-conditioner that works, mini bar. The lobby is very wide. Other hotel's facilities are a good restaurant where the breakfast is served (alcoholic drinks are available under a reasonable price), swimming pool, gym (there are about 4 running machines in addition to some other precarious equipment). Outside the hotel, there is no restaurant, bar or market, and the atmosphere is not friendly. In a general way, I recommend it.
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Date of stay: November 2017
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Room Tip: Rooms far from the elevators minimize the outside noise
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OC_Rio wrote a review Jul 2017
Rio de Janeiro, RJ64 contributions61 helpful votes
It reminds me the old style, soviet or eastern European hotels, managed by the State! It is a flash back. The breakfast is rather good, and some of the people working at the hotel were very nice. There is no much to say, it is not a place that I could recommend or I would happily return. We had a meeting these, the meeting rooms were good, spacious and internet was fine (the internet in the room did not work).
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Date of stay: July 2017
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Travel_best_of_life wrote a review May 2017
Brazil269 contributions214 helpful votes
To stay at Nacional Hotel, is a time travel expericence. We don´t find spacious rooms like this anymore, the standart one had even a room for your clothes and bags. It is from the 60s, from the begin of Brasilia, and you will even find a metal sign with the date of the visit of Queen Elizabeth in 1968. It is in need of an update at the rooms, mainly at the bathrooms, and lighting. The glamour could be restored. The corridors at night are a bit scary for people with imagination. A nice breakfast included, a beautiful pool inside and nice location and view, also a 24 hour room service with a very good service. The worst was a paid wifi, this was unacceptable.
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Date of stay: May 2017
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Family Z wrote a review May 2016
Belgrade, Serbia83 contributions41 helpful votes
Once it was a great hotel... But they haven't done anything for decades... Still: It is on a very good location, rooms are clean, food is fine. Air-conditioning is working, but not properly, they don't except credit cards (!!! - but they change money at the reception and there is an expensive ATM in the lobby) and WIFI is almost non-existing (!!!!!!) - very poor connection. And if you need a fast connection, forget about this hotel: even if you offer to pay more than usual (15 reals a day), you won't get it, no matter how important it might be. Frustrating...!! Staff doesn't speak English (except one of them), so they might be kind, but it's pointless, because they don't understand your needs and requests. Obviously it is used for congresses and similar events and they don't bother about attracting tourists.
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Date of stay: April 2016
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Room Tip: Rooms with the view - uppe floors, looking at the ministries and cathedral
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Deb NG wrote a review Jun 2013
Tuscaloosa, Alabama31 contributions3 helpful votes
She's a grand old lady. The impression one receives during one’s stay is of an aging lady trying valiantly to hold onto the elegance of her youth. The assessments of other reviewers are right on target--expect a 1960's déjà vu experience. I realized quickly that simple seeing the sheer amount of Brazil wood lining the hallways of this hotel is a pretty amazing experience. The view from my hotel window presented a panorama of world class architecture backed by the beauty of a human created lake--all built in the 1960's. On the other side of the hotel building from my room (from an upper floor) one can see the rapidly rising stadium set to host some of next year’s World Cup games. The biggest challenge for this hotel and its customers is that they do not accept credit cards. Someone told me it has to do with some sort of legal disagreements between parties buying and selling the property. Don’t know the truth of the explanation, but it poses a problem for an international traveler. I would expect that the circumstance of lack of credit card acceptability cuts into their business. Additionally, to an international visitor it gives an impression of “shadiness” that may scare potential customers away. Don’t let it. I think you will enjoy your stay. Enjoy the history of luxury this hotel possesses and the kindness and professionalism of the staff in today’s world. Overall, my stay was mostly pleasant--and I was there for several weeks, long enough to form a solid opinion. I was able to locate at least one staff person on each shift with enough English to meet my needs. My room was spartan, but quite clean with basic amenities. Bed was comfortable enough. Linens were of good quality. Television was an analogue cathode ray tube supported by cable (not extensive), with one channel (Warner) broadcasting in English with Portuguese subtitles. (Other channels sporadically offered movies or other programs in English, as well.) I was grateful to be able to catch the “Big Bang Theory” when I was in the room in the evenings. If you speak Portuguese your entertainment needs will be minimally met. Wifi access was included in the room, and was mostly reliable, if lacking in generous band width. Skype struggled in the evenings, but had an easy time in the mornings. Breakfast, included in the reasonable (for the area) room rate was tasty and plentiful and included coffee (with hot milk available in full fat and skim!), juice (3 kinds), breakfast pastries (many, including the ubiquitous pão de queijo), fruit (papaya, passion fruit, pineapple, watermelon, among others), cereal (both hot and cold), made-to-order omelettes, and cold cuts. Pleasant and very professional wait staff enhanced the experience. The availability, until 10:00 a.m., allowed me to enjoy leisurely mornings when I had the time. It would have been nice to have an electric kettle in the room to boil water. That is an amenity to which I've become accustomed in hotels serving international guests. I would also have liked to have a bathroom sink that allowed me to do hand-washing--no basin stopper was a problem. Bathroom fixtures and amenities were functional, but definitely not luxurious. Don't plan on using the fitness room if you don't want to breath cigarette smoke. The doors on both sides of the space remain open for staff to use it as a thoroughfare and I believe they must take their smoke breaks just outside it. This was probably one of the most disappointing parts of my stay. As a single female traveler, I was warned not to walk in the neighborhood after dark, which is frequented by local sex workers. I felt safe enough on the hotel property (or as safe as a single female feels anywhere when she is alone), given the constant presence of hotel staff attending to those entering the hotel. Overall, I'd say my stay was a decent one. Not the best hotel I've ever stayed in, but also not the most expensive hotel in which I've stayed. In the end, it was a decent value for the money.
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Date of stay: May 2013
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What are some of the property amenities at Hotel Nacional?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include an indoor pool, a swimup bar, and free breakfast.
What food & drink options are available at Hotel Nacional?
Guests can enjoy a swimup bar, free breakfast, and an on-site restaurant during their stay.
Is parking available at Hotel Nacional?
Yes, free parking is available to guests.
Are there opportunities to exercise at Hotel Nacional?
Yes, guests have access to an indoor pool and a fitness centre during their stay.
Does Hotel Nacional offer any business services?
Yes, it conveniently offers a business centre, meeting rooms, and a banquet room.
Which languages are spoken by the staff at Hotel Nacional?
The staff speaks multiple languages, including English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Is Hotel Nacional accessible?
Yes, it offers wheelchair access and reduced mobility rooms. For specific enquiries, we recommend calling ahead to confirm.