Costa do Sauípe - Premium Sol
Sol Grand Premium is one of four all-inclusive hotels inside Costa do Sauípe, a purpose-built beach destination on Bahia's Coconut Coast that Aviva has run since 2018. Sol reopened in 2025 after a complete renovation and was lifted into the Grand Premium category, the top of Aviva's three tiers, and the official site now pitches it squarely at larger families with children and teenagers. The 256 rooms all sleep up to four, which is the practical reason to pick Sol over its sister Brisa Grand Premium, the couples and small-family option with the infinity pool. One thing the brochures do not shout about and plenty of guests get wrong: the four hotels do not pool their facilities. Aviva repeats on every hotel panel that each hotel's spaces are exclusive to its own guests, so plan around Sol's own restaurants and pools rather than the whole complex.
Traveler Insights
Pros
- +Reopened in 2025 after a full renovation and promoted to Aviva's top Grand Premium tier, so along with Brisa it has the freshest rooms and public areas of the four hotels at Costa do Sauípe
- +Built for bigger families: all six room categories sleep up to four, the 35 sq m Apartamento Luxo pairs a king bed with two singles, and the 41 sq m Apartamento Luxo Temático is decorated for the resort's Turminha da Zooeira characters
- +Three pools, two for adults and one for children, open 8am to 6pm with drinks service at the water, plus the Bar do Lobby until 1am and a 24-hour cafeteria so there is always something open
- +Serious kids and teen provision: the Espaço de Brincar and Sala de Jogos run 8am to 10pm, the Equipe Boto activity team programmes for children and teenagers, and the complex-level Toca da Zooeira is a monitored play space for ages 4 to 12
- +Two kilometres of private Atlantic beach, the Vila Nova da Praia and the nightly Quermesse da Vila are complex-level, which gives you far more beach and evening entertainment than a single 256-room hotel could support on its own
- +Atlantic Forest reserve right beside the property, with capuchin monkeys regularly on the resort grounds and toucans, parrots and rare forest birds around the gardens
- +Three a la carte restaurants sit at complex level, Benditos Frutos for seafood, Baêa for Bahian cooking and La Villa for a European bistro menu, and Sol guests get one courtesy dinner on bookings of five nights or more and two on seven nights or more
- +Events are worth planning a trip around: the Costa do Sauípe Open ATP Challenger Tour 125 runs 1 to 8 November 2026 with the final on the 8th, the Sauípe Summer Festival and a Réveillon programme fill the high season, and golf clinics are offered to guests during their stay
Cons
- −Each hotel's facilities are reserved for its own guests. Aviva states this under every hotel on its site, so a Sol booking does not get you into Brisa's clifftop infinity pool or Mar's restaurants. Only the beach, the Vila and Quermesse entertainment areas, the Toca da Zooeira and the paid a la carte restaurants are open to the whole complex
- −Sol's own dining is narrow for a long stay: Restaurante Tempero, the poolside Restaurante Tabuleiro, the lobby bar and the 24-hour cafeteria. The three a la carte restaurants cost extra beyond your courtesy dinners, and room service is charged separately
- −Remote even by Brazilian resort standards. The address is Rodovia BA-099 at Km 76 in Mata de São João, roughly 75km and 90 minutes from Salvador airport, and international connections into Salvador are thin compared with Cancun or Punta Cana
- −The pools close at 6pm, which is early if you had the afternoon pencilled in for a swim after a day at the beach
- −The complex-level spaces, the beach, the Vila and the a la carte restaurants, fill up during Brazilian school holidays in July, December and January
- −Portuguese is effectively the working language. English is spoken at the front desk but much less so around the restaurants, bars and activity team
- −This is open Atlantic, not a sheltered lagoon. The waves and currents are genuinely stronger than a Caribbean beach, which is great for bodyboarding and a reason to keep young children and weak swimmers in the pools
Day to day you get three pools, two adult and one for children, open 8am to 6pm with service at the water, Restaurante Tempero and the poolside Restaurante Tabuleiro covering breakfast, lunch and dinner, a lobby bar that runs to 1am and a cafeteria that never closes. Regional Bahian cooking is a real part of the offer rather than a token station, and the dedicated Bahian restaurant Baêa, the complex's most decorated kitchen, sits at complex level with Benditos Frutos and La Villa. Those three are charged separately, though a five-night booking earns one courtesy dinner and seven nights earns two. Children are unusually well served: the Espaço de Brincar and Sala de Jogos stay open 8am to 10pm, the Equipe Boto team runs programming for kids and teens, and the monitored Toca da Zooeira takes ages 4 to 12. Free self-parking helps if you are driving up from Salvador, and the Atlantic Forest reserve next door puts capuchin monkeys on the lawns most days.
Sol suits families who want a Brazilian beach holiday rather than a Caribbean one, and who will use the activity programme. The transfer from Salvador is about 90 minutes, international flights into Salvador are limited, and almost nothing runs in English away from reception, so this is a harder trip from North America than a Riviera Maya equivalent at a similar nightly rate. What you get back is a two-kilometre beach that never feels packed outside Brazilian school holidays, food with an actual regional identity and wildlife most all-inclusives cannot offer. Two things are moving at the complex: Mar Premium reopened in March 2026 after a year closed and a jump from Essential to Premium, and Terra Resort stays open and keeps the best value while its retrofit is scheduled in two stages finishing in 2027 and 2028. Bigger still, Aviva is building Hot Park Costa do Sauípe, a R$420 million water park of more than 100,000 square metres with over 20 attractions, due to open in 2027 as part of roughly R$1.2 billion the company is spending across its Bahia and Goiás resorts.
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What's nearby
Imbassaí25 min drive · 9.1 mi
Praia do Forte village40 min drive · 19 mi
Projeto TAMAR Praia do Forte40 min drive · 19 mi
Castelo Garcia d'Ávila45 min drive · 18 mi
More things to do (8)
- Mirante de Imbassaí · viewpoint30 min drive · 11 mi
- Reserva Sapiranga · nature35 min drive · 17 mi
- Instituto Baleia Jubarte visitor centre · museum40 min drive · 19 mi
- Papa-Gente natural pool snorkel (Praia do Forte) · excursion40 min drive · 19 mi
- Whale watching from Praia do Forte (July to October) · excursion40 min drive · 19 mi
- Itacimirim · beach45 min drive · 21 mi
- Praia de Guarajuba · beach55 min drive · 26 mi
- Praia do Jacuípe · beach60 min drive · 31 mi
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Google Reviews★ 4.7 · 34,272 reviews
“I really enjoyed my stay here, everything was wonderful. A huge suite and amazing crew. The show was amazing! We are definitely coming back!”
“Very good experience. Adriele Santos, Joao vítor very good service in the restaurant. Very simpathetic!”
“Awesome all-inclusive resort. Food is delicious, and a good selection of drinks, the rooms are spacious and clean. The pools are nice, and there are activities like stretching exercises or dance classes.”
