Windsor Asturias Hotel

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Do Not Stay
Recurring Pest Problem
15%
Low confidence.
Based on 112 detailed reviews.
Score-only reviews are excluded.

This hotel has serious health and safety issues including cockroaches and fungus-contaminated bathtubs that caused skin problems for guests. The location is consistently described as dangerous with multiple robbery incidents near the entrance. Widespread billing disputes, severe noise problems from plumbing, and unprofessional staff behavior create an unacceptable experience despite some positive mentions of breakfast and rooftop views.

🚩 Red Flags

Unsafe neighborhood location
critical
Mentioned 12 times, last 1 month ago
Neighborhood isn't safe to walk, especially at night

Location isn't good. Although the hotel is in the center, close to several touristic points, the neighborhood isn't safe to walk, specially at night

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 10/10

Little bit dangerous at night!

9 months ago·United States·Score: 10/10

My friends and I were robbed coming back from dinner less than 8ft from the hotel's main entrance as there was NO security guard there

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10

Location was in a dangerous part of town

3 years ago·United Kingdom·Score: 3/10

I was mugged almost at the hotel door. There's a lack of security

6 months ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10

The area is very but very unsafe. Full of homeless people

2 months ago·Argentina·Score: 1/10

There are people living on the street and garbage almost at the entrance

1 month ago·Chile·Score: 3/10

Location is gritty

2 years ago·United States·Score: 10/10

The neighborhood is not safe at night

9 months ago·Brazil·Score: 4/10

Insecurity in the area

2 months ago·Venezuela·Score: 10/10
Cockroaches in rooms
critical
Mentioned 1 time, last 1 year ago
There were cockroaches in the room

There were cockroaches in the room or cockroaches as they called them there

1 year ago·Chile·Score: 5/10
Dirty bathtub with fungus
critical
Mentioned 2 times, last 2 years ago
Bathtub not properly cleaned with visible fungus

The bathtub was not properly cleaned. It was possible to see fungus and accumulated dirt in the water outlets of the bathtub

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10

So much dirt came out of the water that I was afraid of catching some type of skin disease, in the following days the dirty water continued to come out but less, and even small lumps appeared on my buttocks

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10
Billing disputes and overcharging
high
Mentioned 8 times, last 1 month ago
Tried to charge us for second bottle we didn't take

Receptionist tried to charge us for a second bottle of water from the minibar (we had only taken one). Felt like they were trying to overcharge us and hoping we'd give in

2 years ago·Ireland·Score: 2/10

We asked for drinking water and they brought about twenty small water bottles over 3 days, without informing us or making us sign anything. At the end they made us pay 30 euros

2 years ago·France·Score: 1/10

Reception wanted me to pay again at check in when I had already paid on booking. I insisted for them to check the payment that had already been made

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 4/10

At check-in he tells me that accommodation is paid. I tell him I asked not to charge the card, he says they charged it to Booking. I check the card app and they had charged me 3 days before entry

1 month ago·Argentina·Score: 1/10

They charged me an exorbitant additional amount, which I refused to pay and then they changed the conversation

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10

At the price they said, they charged me more for something that doesn't seem fair to me

7 months ago·Spain·Score: 4/10
Severe noise from plumbing and elevators
high
Mentioned 15 times, last 1 month ago
Hot water system extremely noisy, woke me up twice when upstairs neighbor showered

The hot water system is extremely noisy, I was woken up twice because the neighbor upstairs was taking a shower. There is practically no acoustic insulation

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 3/10

If the room next door takes a shower, you won't sleep at all. You hear absolutely everything that the room next door does

3 years ago·Brazil·Score: 4/10

You could hear inside the room the elevator noise all the time

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

The room I stayed in seemed attached to the elevator machine, so it made A LOT of noise, practically all day long

1 month ago·Brazil·Score: 8/10

We heard every time neighboring guests used the shower or faucet in their bathroom, and all the time there was loud ambient music playing in the hotel corridor, which was obviously heard inside the rooms

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10

The noise from the pipes at 3 am was horrible, we couldn't rest well

1 year ago·Chile·Score: 3/10

Noise from neighboring rooms when using the shower. Horrible!!!

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10

The room is very noisy

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 3/10

You feel a lot of noise from the rest of the rooms, you hear if the one above or the room next door turns on showers and the pipes sound loud

1 month ago·Chile·Score: 5/10

Noise from neighboring rooms: old pipes, device noise at 2 am. Insulation should probably be reviewed

1 month ago·France·Score: 7/10
Rude and unprofessional staff
high
Mentioned 12 times, last 1 month ago
Staff on reception were unhelpful and quite rude

Staff on reception were unhelpful and quite rude. Didn't seem to know a lot about their city

3 years ago·United Kingdom·Score: 3/10

The manager was ruder than the receptionists, the management of that hotel was all disorganized, the manager closed the door in our face. Left us talking alone

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 4/10

When we exchanged with the manager and explained the situation, he didn't want to hear anything and threatened to call the police

2 years ago·France·Score: 1/10

The employees were not receptive or polite, which differs greatly from the Windsor standard

6 months ago·Brazil·Score: 2/10

I didn't like the service from the receptionists (the women). They were extremely brief and answered my questions vaguely, which showed lack of interest in helping

1 month ago·Brazil·Score: 2/10

The employees are zero helpful, zero empathetic, they make us feel unwelcome at the hotel

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10

Employees are not cordial

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 5/10

Bad and unprepared service, bad beds

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

Highly unprepared employees

11 months ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

🙂‍↔️ Avoid if you're...

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