The price is per week and includes:

• Villa rental;
• Airport collection, flight confirmation and return to airport;
• Dinner (or lunch) with drinks on arrival;
• Housekeeper six days a week;
• Traditional Brazilian breakfast six days a week;
• Gas, linen, soap, towels, internet;
• Services of an English speaking guide to give advice and help as needed.

The price does not include:

• Electricity;
• Guided tours and babysitting, which are paid for separately at a local price;
• Lunch and dinner cooked in the villa, you choose off the menu and pay a local price;
• Laundry – the housekeeper can do this for you for a small price payable to her.

To check availability please provide your details as follows—

Getting there

There is now a direct charter flight from Manchester and London to Salvador. Two companies are currently running flights: Airtours and First Choice.

Airtours flies from Manchester and London Gatwick on Fridays all year round: phone 0870 241 2567 [www.airtours.com] (click on flights).

First Choice flies to Salvador May to October only. It’s not possible to book this flight on the web as I write (November) so you would have to phone 0870 850 3999 for information – there is a £15 fee for booking over the phone. Flights are bookable for a stay of two weeks only [www.firstchoice.co.uk].

Scheduled flights are available on TAP (Air Portugal). These flights book up very quickly and are usually more expensive than the charter flights [www.flytap.com].

American guests are advised to contact their travel advisor for details on flights or visit Varig’s website [www.varig.com].

Currency and inoculations

The currency in Brazil is the Real. When you book I will advise you about the best thing to do regarding taking money and cards etc.

You will need to check your vaccination status: in the UK you are advised to have typhoid, Hepatitis A, Polio and Diptheria/Tetanus.

You do not need a visa to travel to Brazil from the UK but you do from the US. For other countries please check the Brazilian Embassy in your country.

Useful Websites

[Weather in Salvador]
Hourly weather updates from Salvador airport which is 15 minutes’ drive from the villa in Praia do Flemengo.

[www.bahia-online.net]
Independent site in English with lots of information about Salvador

For currency conversions
[www.xe.com/ucc/]

Visit the villa via Google earth. We can send you a placemark so you can ‘fly’ to the villa using Google’s satellite images. You will need to download the Google Earth software first – go to [www.Earth.google.com] then, [email me] for the link – you will then be taken to a satellite picture of the villa – it’s fun.

[www.praiadoflamengo.com]
This is the local website for Praia do Flamengo and the surrounding area. There are some good aerial photographs of the area although the still photographs of Praia do Flamengo are poor. There’s lots of information on the web site but only in Portuguese. Have a look at the moving aerial shots though.

[www.carnaval.salvador.ba.gov.br/]
This is the official Salvador Carnival site – there is an English option. The Salvador Carnival in February each year is the biggest street party in the world and bigger than the carnival in Rio.