São Paulo is South America’s biggest city and Brazil’s business capital, with world-class restaurants, museums and nightlife. It is huge and busy, but its many business hotels offer good weekend deals, and cheap rooms are easy to find near metro stations.
Finding cheap rooms in São Paulo is easier when you know where to look. We compare live hotel rates across the top booking sites and point you to the neighborhoods where hotels are cheap but the location is still great.
Rooms come in more shapes than hotels — in São Paulo you can also compare apartments with kitchens, vacation rentals for families, B&Bs and budget hostels in one search.
The central avenue with museums, shops and many hotels on the metro line.
An upscale area of boutiques and restaurants near Paulista.
A bohemian district of street art, bars and small hotels.
A lively neighborhood of restaurants and nightlife, with good metro links.
Hotels near the main international airport for connections and early flights.
Zoom and pan the map to compare hotel prices by neighborhood; rates come live from the booking sites.
April–September is cooler and drier; summer (December–March) is hot with heavy rain. Weekend rates at business hotels are often the cheapest.
Business hotels around Avenida Paulista often cut rates on weekends; look near a metro station to save on taxis.
Guarulhos is a long way from the center in traffic, so an airport hotel makes sense for a short connection.
The nearby port of Santos, down on the coast, is one of Brazil’s main cruise ports, and many cruisers fly in via São Paulo.