The Best Hotels in São Paulo, by the Record
The best hotels in São Paulo, by the professional record: 50 Best, Forbes Travel Guide, and Michelin Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Rosewood São Paulo comes out on top.
Palácio Tangará and Fasano São Paulo Itaim hold the next two places. Forbes Travel Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Michelin Guide next.
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A former maternity hospital and a Jean Nouvel tower wrapped in 250 trees form the bones of this luxury hotel in Bela Vista, and the 450 site-specific works by Brazilian artists mean every corridor argues with the last. Philippe Starck handled the interiors, and the rooftop pool and jazz bar have become destinations on their own. It landed at number 24 on the World's 50 Best Hotels list.
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Surrounded by the Burle Marx Park, one of São Paulo's great green escapes, this Oetker Collection hotel puts 141 rooms inside actual tropical forest, with lagoons and exotic birds visible from the windows. Jean-Georges Vongerichten runs the restaurant on site, and the Sisley-run spa handles facials with the kind of Parisian seriousness you didn't expect to find in a Brazilian park. A Forbes Four Star and two Michelin Keys.
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Marcio Kogan dressed the rooms in Brazilian walnut and basalt, and the furniture reads like a syllabus of high-end Brazilian design. This is a luxury hotel where the lobby bar doubles as the front room, the reception desk hidden away so cocktail hour starts the moment you walk in. A rooftop pool and bar sit above Itaim Bibi, and the restaurant below leans into the family's Italian roots. Forbes Four Star.
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The building looks like a ship run aground in Jardim Paulista, its grey-green hull curving up on two concrete pillars, porthole windows and all. Inside this luxury hotel, a Campana Brothers sofa anchors the lobby, the bar shelves climb nearly twenty feet up a sloping wall, and art turns up in corners you weren't expecting. The rooftop holds a crimson pool and a restaurant with a view that makes the architecture make sense.
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A mirrored tower with a helipad jutting over Rua Oscar Freire, Emiliano is a boutique hotel that announces itself before you even walk in. Inside, the design is all confident Brazilian modernism, and the staff are the quietly expert kind who remember things. No pool, but there's a spa and a solid restaurant. The Jardins address puts you among the best shopping in the city, which suits the business-with-expense-account crowd just fine. A Forbes Four Star property.