Water
The water supply of Cocoa Coast satisfies the international patterns, but due to the fort taste of chlorine we advised you to drink mineral water bottled.

Car rent
The main companies of rent of cars have branches in the Airport of Islanders and in the cities of Cocoa Coast. Reservations should be made at the origin places. In the case of you to need of a car for an or two days, that can be provided by the Receptionist of your hotel.

Medical service
They also exist many public hospitals and peculiar with service of emergency service and to patient external. Many of the doctors and dentists of Cocoa Coast were formed or they took courses in the Capitals of Brazil. Consult the page of Services where telephones of Hospitals, Clinics and Dentists will be found.

Banks
The banks are open of the 10 at the 16 hours during the week, but they don't open in the weekends and in the holidays.
Before traveling, the tourist should be certified with the bank of your place of the acceptance of their cards of credit and of bank.
Electronic machines of self-service (ATM) they are found in almost every part, some working 24 hours a day for drafts in Real with the knownest cards.

Exchange and Reimbursement
Explain with the salesperson the politics of the store as to you change and reimbursement. In most of the stores it is possible to change goods, but the reimbursement is a rare practice if no inexistent.

Purchases
Credit cards and checks
American Express, Visa, Diner's Club and Master Card are accepted by most of the stores. However, it is always of good to certify before doing any purchase. Once in a while a small discount is offered for who buys with money. In general the traveler's checks are not accepted, as well as the personal checks of foreign banks. The tourist should observe the quotation of the dollar daily before leaving to do purchases.

Mail
The Brazilian postal services satisfy all the international patterns, and a lot of agencies of the mail exist for the city. In Saturdays and Sundays those agencies don't work. Most of the hotels offers a postal service for the letters and packages of the guests, besides a packing service.

Electric power
Consult before at the hotel the voltage.

Schedule of file
The offices usually work between 9 and 17 hours. The stores usually open at 9 o'clock and they close at the 19 hours, except in Itacaré that open starting from 16 o'clock. The schedule of lunch is in general of the 12 to the 14 hours. Most of the offices clamor in Saturdays and Sundays.

Bus
There are bus lines interconnecting all of the cities of Cocoa Coast. Consult the page of Services the available schedules.

Safety
As in all of the cities of the world, for a calm permanence it is the solemnity-safety against pickpockets, besides the practice of having with itself always the possible minimum in money and values.

Telecommunications
Brazil is linked the all of the appropriate international services of telephone and satellite, offering easy connections with virtually all of the points of the globe. In all of the cities of Cocoa Coast there are services of cellular telephony and internet, always having Cyber Café.

Clothing
In Cocoa Coast the informality reigns in clothing terms. When doing walks, trails, it is necessary the use of shoes and clothes adapted for the activities.

Walks
Give preference in using the services of agencies and accredited guides.
Avoid to walk for the trails after 16:00 o'clock.
Walk in groups of up to 10 people, smaller groups are harmonized better with the nature and they cause less impacts.
Before doing any activity, communicate to the guide about any special need: former. physics or allergic.
For your safety, before practicing any activity of adventure tourism that offers some risk species, it is certified if the organizers possess personal accident insurance, with policy collective or safe of civil responsibility.
When getting ready for the walks, always take the essential items: water, light foods, suntan lotion and repellent.

Feeding
The cookery baiano be very spicy and with a lot of palm oil olive oil. Eat the regional foods moderately. We also recommended care when consuming street sellers' foods, mainly fruit-pity-sea, oysters, fried shrimps, etc. Prefers the restaurants or beach huts that in general are supervised by the Sanitary Surveillance.

The Sun
The sun here is very strong. Always use suntan lotion, mainly in the summer, don't be exposed directly in the sun from 10:00h to 15:00h. the shadow of a good coconut tree and a lot of coconut water always it´s very well!