Best Hotels with Activities in Belém

Belém sits where the Guajará Bay meets the mouth of the Amazon, and family life here runs on the afternoon rain: skies open near 2pm almost every day, so hotel pools, covered terraces and the Ver-o-Peso market's stalls all plan around it. Kids get mango trees to climb along Doca de Souza Franco, a cable car and playgrounds at Mangal das Garças, and a short boat ride to Ilha do Combu for cacau tastings. Families who base themselves in São Brás or Nazaré can walk to the Basílica and Praça da República; those who want quiet river beaches head 40 minutes out to Ilha de Cotijuba instead.