Name: Pousada Ecoverde
Address: Rua Pedro Celestino 391, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, 78005-010, Cuiaba, Cuiaba, Cuiaba, 78005-010, Brazil
Rating: 9

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Marechal Rondon International Airport

Pousada Ecoverde

We just come back from our 5d/4n trip to the Pantanal with Ecoverde tours and spent the night after coming back at the hostel that belongs to Joel, the owner of Ecoverde, too. The place is very charming, with a nice patio, free water, interesting books and soon there will be renovated a few things that are basic right now. Breakfast is great. Really loved staying here and Joel is an awesome guy, so helpful, trustable and comunicative, helped us to organize the next stops of our travel cause we don't speak Portuguese. Just a lovely place.

We stayed a night before and after our pantanal tour. The pousada feels more like couchsurfing with joel's family than a guesthouse. Expect character, not luxury. Joel and his son were both very helpful and Joel likes to spend time getting to know his guests. He has a wide range of knowledge and interests. Very impressive. He has a very casual way of going about his business but everything was reliable and legit. We had a great time there.

We had a great time at the Pousada Eco Verde. Joel was a very nice host, helping us with everything. The Pousada was very autenthic, cosy. In the evening we were listening music, Joel has a great collection of music. We stayed at his place for 3 nights, we did not book it in advance but he let us to stay in the Pousada. We took a 4 day Jaguar tour with Joel, and it was amazing, every part of the trip. The wildlife in Pantanal was beautiful, we saw a lot of bird species, jaguars, giant otters, it was unforgettable. Our tour guide Tim was amazing! He has a wide knowledge about the wildlife and Pantanal in general. We enjoyed the time with him. We could not have better guide than him. We recommend the Pousada Ecoverde and the 4 day Jaguar Tour for everyone who likes nature, interested in wildlife.

We just had the best experience. Joel is a really nice host and let us stay here for free the night before and after te tour. We had booked a 4 days 3 nights Jaguar tour. Because they were renovating there wasn’t breakfast at the hostel, so Joel took us to the best breakfast place in Cuiaba. It was really amazing. 👍🏻 Also he speaks a little dutch and he knows al lot about the Netherlands, especially Amsterdam. We liked that! Definitely recommend this place. Thanks for all your good help Joel.

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We did see Jaguars but over all was not very impressed with the tour unfortunately.  On the plus side, the accommodations at Porto Jofre were better than I expected.  On the negative side, I didn't have a lot of confidence in the tour, which caused some stress as described below.  Joel was not present to pick up at the airport and I am not sure if he was expected us when we arrived at the hostel despite my constant emails letting him know about our arrival.  His communication was very poor throughout the whole process as noted in other reviews (side note: you might have better luck via Whatsapp compared to email.)  Anyway, things started to go downhill a bit when we arrived at Porte Jofre... they apparently didn't have a enough room for our tour group.  Not sure whose fault that was.  Half our group had to stay in another Pousada close by that was apparently under construction, they were not happy at all with the quality of the place.  My family lucked out and got a room at the main camp.  The next morning was the big boat tour that was supposed to leave at 7 am.  Things started to get stressful when our boat hadn't showed up by 9 am...  started to wonder if we were even going to get a boat that day and several members of our tour group started losing it.  About 9:45 am, a nice boat showed up, which saved the day.  Another stress was the open truck they used is really old and was having some serious battery issues... basically they had to do a push start if the motor turned off.  That had me a bit concerned on our way back if the truck stalled in an unfortunate location, leaving us stranded.  To be honest, I have the feeling that something is quite not right about the Ecoverde tours and that they need a change in management.  I think they get a lot of business because of being named in Lonely Planet so the need to run a well refined operation is not required.

4/3 Night Jaguar Tour

Read all the reviews before making a decision. It is a scam. We are probably their biggest scam they pulled so far. They stole 10,000 reis or $2,000 US dollars from us. Lauro is in charge. Joel does not take any responsibility of Lauro’s and his actions. It is a fraud. I wrote a bigger review on Ecoverde tours. I do not want to spend time on this. But we wired a deposit of 10,000 reis for a prepaid tour. They wanted another 10,000 reis at the airport. A man will meet you with a phone. Nothing was paid. Lauro and Joel disappeared with 10,000 reis.  We came to all the hotels/ pousadas and they requested full payment before we could enter our rooms. Ecoverde owe a lot of money to the hotels that Ecoverde deal with and they do not accept any tourists from Ecoverde without payment upfront in full. As we were trying to get our money back we talked to a lot of people and they all had the same feedback about this family: Lauro is a drug addict, Joel does not care and the family is a scam constantly asking for money for medical help for father, for wife, for Lauro and so on. Read other reviews carefully. You will see it all.

The biggest scam so far. They stole 10,000 reis or $2,000 US dollars from us

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