A gigantic metal structure gains shape in an area of 11 thousand square meters on the edge of Salvador. More specifically in the neighborhood of Ondina, where, during the carnival, blocks pulled by the electric trios end a route started almost 5 km, In the famous headlight of Barra.
The Salvador cabin is built from scratch, “springs” from the floor of a square while the others are mounted on facades and balconies of buildings. It is like raising a mini-science that will only work during the days of revelry, programming, safety scheme and even their own hosting options. Dwell it, as you can imagine, does not come out cheap.
Left less than two weeks to start the party, one full pass six days at the Salvador cabin even exceeds R $ 21 thousand – Air tickets and hosting are not included in this amount, it is worth remembering.
Tickets purchased separately vary from value according to the day. They are more expensive on Saturday and Carnival Tuesday, and may reach more than $ 4,000. It is, by far, the most expensive cabin of the Bahian carnivalas a survey made by the platform I want abadá, at the request of the Infomoney. To get an idea, the second place on this list, the Villa Cabin, charges almost half of this amount for a day of access.
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What is in the Salvador Camarote
It is not easy to transform Salvador Carnival entropy into a VIP experience. The Bahian capital already has the fifth largest population in the country, with more than 2.5 million inhabitants, according to IBGE. And the expectation is that 850,000 visitors will be in the city during the party days, according to estimates of the City Hall, higher than last year. In fact, nine among ten goers of the Salvador cabin are tourists.
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The structure houses, on average, 5,000 people per night and practically offers a reality parallel to the carnival itself. While the crowd that accompanies the electric trios vies space for slap (often literally) on the avenue, the Salvador cabin has its own musical attractions distributed on two stages. THE line-up This year has about 70 artists and big names such as Ivete Sangalo, Leo Santana, Carlinhos Brown and Alok.
Services include gourmet space with open bar e open foodspa with massage therapists, beauty area for makeup and hair retouching and another to customize shirts. These are spaces for activations of partner brands and sponsor the cabin, such as Petra, Petrópolis Group beer, Pernod Ricard and Red Bull.
“We can say that the Salvador cabin today resembles a festival. But unlike Rock in Rio and Lollapalooza, we have interaction with the street, ”says Paulo Goes, a partner at Premium Entertainment, a company that manages the box. It refers to the lookout, from where the goers wave and interact for the singers who pass on the street, on the trio.
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The interactions, by the way, are common, since the Salvador cabin is a favorite of celebrities and even politicians who pass carnival in the Bahian capital. Bruna Marquezine, Sasha Meneguel and former Mayor of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, are some of the illustrious presence in the box in past years.
Company closed hotel for visitors
The Salvador cabin has closed an entire hotel to accommodate a part of its visitors on Carnival days. When choosing the full package, the customer pays an additional amount of about $ 9,000 for hosting (value per person). Some extra perks are included, such as a transfer service to the cabin and escort to bring the revelers to the entrance of the structure.
The four -star hotel is just over three kilometers from the cabin and has 174 rooms, mostly overlooking the sea. The expectation is to receive an average of 390 guests in the carnival period.
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“Even the customer who bought a day or two of the cabin can stay at the hotel to have other experiences in Salvador besides Carnival, such as knowing the local cuisine, or navigating the Bay of Todos os Santos,” explains Luciana Villas Boas, CEO of Premium entertainment.
Company is from heir to Magalhães
The company does not reveal how much invests in the Salvador cabin or how much it makes with it with each carnival. In 2025, the structure turns 25, but even if it is a seasonal “product”, it takes a whole year to be planned and is what keeps the business standing. As soon as Carnival is over, the tickets of the next edition begin to be sold and this year the plan is to anticipate the opening of sales to 2026 during the days of the party.
Premium Entertainment even ventured outside Bahia with the Salvador Connection, a kind of out -of -season carnival in 2022, in São Paulo. That year, the Bahian Carnival was suspended, still due to the covid-19 pandemic. The social networks of the event implied that there would be a new edition the following year, which did not happen.
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“Today we are still focused on the growth of Camarote Salvador itself, not only as an event, but also as a mark,” says Luis Eduardo Magalhães Filho, who founded the premium with Paulo Goes. He is the grandson of former senator Antonio Carlos Magalhães, whose political group ruled Bahia for over a decade. And son of the former mayor of the House of Representatives, Luis Eduardo Magalhães, killed in 1998, at the age of 43.
“Maybe we already have the largest space of the current carnival circuit today. So we have the challenge of innovating within the equipment itself, to surprise the customer, ”explains Magalhães.
“If Salvador Carnival expands the number of circuits to other areas, then new possibilities arise for us to dare to the size of the cabin. Also because on many days of carnival, we have a greater demand than the offer, ”he adds.
At the end of last year, the councilors of Salvador approved the creation of a third carnival circuit, in the neighborhood of Boca do Rio. Today the party takes place on the edge of Barra to Ondina and also in Campo Grande, central region of the city.
