Brazil’s Most Daring Hotel T HE 269 CHILLI PEPPER: THE NEW HOT SPOT IN BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro is usually the first city that comes to mind when you think of Brazil, but gay locals know and tourists are finding out that São Paulo, about 6 hours east of Rio, has the biggest LGBT community in the country. São Paulo offers hundreds of attractionsfor LGBT tourists and locals, including famous clubs,where the world’s best DJs play year round, in addition to the trendiest restaurants and gay bars in Brazil. usinessman, Douglas Drumond, foreseeing the future of the LGBT B Community’s allure of São Paulo, invested and created the 269 Chilli Pepper SingleHotel and Sauna. In a short time, this hotel has earned the title of the biggest and the best hotel for single men in Latin America, even the top luxury French brand Louis Vuitton included the Chilli Pepper in their latest e dition of its tour guides. T o maintain its clientele satisfied, the hotel plans different theme nights, such as: Happy Hour for Businessmen on Mondays, Bear’s ParDouglas Drumond ty on Tuesdays, Red Hair Wednesdays and more. Offering 3 floors of accommodations, including 5 suites, 124 single rooms, lockers, showers and jacuzzis, a winter and a summer swimming pools, and let’s not forget the waterfall. No sauna would be complete without a steam room, a filtered-water-cooled indoor pool and a dry sauna designed with ergonomic benches. Photos courtesy of 269 Chilli Pepper
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Connextions Magazine
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Love Around the World
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Spring 2015