Great location to access Santa Teresa and other areas of touristic interest. Based in a commercial area packed with shops and restaurants. Room and room service of a very good standard.
Breakfast of excellent quality. Some a la carte meals of an evening were overpriced for the quality received.
Staff very friendly and helpful.

I stayed here during the Carnival festivities, the hotel is ideally located in the heart of the city.
Good, clean rooms and great included breakfast every day.
Take care when in Rio city as it can be quite dodgy but as long as you have your wits about you and take care not to walk around with personal items on show then you should be grand!

Look the pictures and decide by yourself.
Would never stay again. When I entered the restaurant for dinner, decided go walk and search for another place, even if it's not a safe neighborhood.
Renovated bathroom is the only thing that it's not below average.

A weeks stay in a working hotel... alot of technicians.IT people in there. I stayed with my nephew as we had tickets for the sambodrome carnival...short journey, 10mins by taxi. The Hotel was clean and friendly staffed... 24 hours a day there was an english speaker available,,,In fact the night manager's English was amazingly good.

The breakfast we did every morning...loads of fresh fruit ,chicken,ham, hot spicy sausages , cheeses.bread, cereal,boiled eggs /scrambled and a toaster too , tea ,coffee etc...just about everything ....It was good and you could back as many times as you wanted.

We stayed on the second floor, security safe in room but a small charge for use of...would recommend this... especially for passports ,trav/checks,cards etcetc.... although the hotel was fully booked(samba season at the dromo) the food trays where filled regularly and nobody went short of food..if memory serves breakfast is 7-00am while 10am... in fact we strolled in at 9am after spending all night at the sambo dromo samba carnival...and the breakfast rush had gone but there was fresh hot and cold food available in bulk. Room had Air Con and a TV and fone....

Our plan was to eat breakfast in hotel then dine on Brazillian traditional food. for rest of the day.. if you turn right out the hotel and walk down the street there are 2 small restaurants and a choppo at the end... ( choppo means = little beer house) which does food too. Try the local brew ITAIPAVA beer...its a nice drink served real real cold. SKOL is still,available there, with double plastic covers on the beer cans for extra hygenie, the beer can run is under the tap before covers removed and poured in a cold glass ...me thinks Veils desease comes to mind...hence extra precautions... so no drinking out of bottles when necks are covered with rat urine.

Infact the cafe and bar owners by law ,double and triple bag most waste generated and we saw bins being empied every day...nasty fevers from "mozzis"so all rubbish double wrapped .

Black beans and pigs feet are so good its not real... mind you loved pigs feet since being a kid......but get the idea,,,eat local and see the good side of Rio... try the little pasties too...awesome..chicken ,ham, cheese etc .... use the tube stations to get about,,,we did and was a real blast...tickets to Sugar loaf mountain we bought at the Cariocas tube staiton included a short bus journey same ticket did it and return leg too. Buses right outside of train tube stops. Same goin down to Ipanema beach..tube stop about 4 min walk to beach... lands you smack bang in the middle of it all. but no tube to Copacabana.

The tube station Cariocas is less than a steady 5 min walk from hotel...catch the korean owned choppo. about half way tween station and hotel....they crush fresh green cane sugar stalks in a machine and make a very unusal but delicious soft drink. Hot Brazillian pasties too

Everytime we asked about places we wanted to go the hotelstaff where a real help...in fact I had booked the carnival tickets over the internat, paid, and to be collected in Rio in person .. on the Avenida Argentina. as it turned out.. right on the dock area...the hotel manager was not happy about us going down there alone.....he organised us a taxi to take us, wait by the door for us to come out, in fact the security guard at this place had a gun on each hip...I had to produce docket / recipt from booking on the net...before he opened the bullet proof glass door,,,, tickets in hand jumped back into taxi.we came back to the hotel...the taxi cost us 20 Real about £7-00... Bear this in mind... the taxi drivers are rip off merchants all over the world... here they double the fare if you dont speak Portugese...never tip...but the taxis are still cheap...we made a taxi journey back from copacabana beach at 2am in the morning back to the hotel in the centre of Rio... took close to 30 mins of hard driving...cost 90 reals about £30 between two of us....try that in London,Manchester or even your own town.

Do the " Big Jesus" trip,if the train is fully booked with a 3 hour wait...I used the mini vans to take us to the top...only a couple of quid more but we paid and got straight on a bus and off we went. Oh and we booked the train /bus ticket at the Cariocas tube station to get us to the foot of the mountain and back....bus stops right in front of train to top.

During one night they glass cover fell off the ceiling light, woke me from sleep and in the darkness trying to reach the light switch I stepped on the glass cut my feet ....literally within 2 mins of a phone call to reception the staff had shifted the broken glass , disinfected my wounds, and dressed my toes the glass had cut....

If you are going to the samba carnival...this is a top spot to stay in... the local Blocco parties occur on Avenida Rio Grande..near the Caricocas tube station...and they, trust me are a real blast....close by The Bridges of Lapa...a meeting point for the young people...another wild place for partying.

OHHHHH you gotta try Kypreenia..local spirit drink made from half of a lime.sugar, ice and Cashasha cane sugar rum.about 40 percent ABV about a third of a pint in a glass all smashed up together... 6 of those and your heads sober and your legs are useless.

This city has a bad reputation... in fact two girls from our hotel, whose IQs must have equalled their shoe sizes had an hand bag stolen at 4am on the street.. What do they expect !!!! . advice....turn out with minimum money , small camera stuck in your pocket ... and limit your credit card to a maximum of £50-00 a day......I took over a thousand pounds to spend and brought over £600-00 back...its so cheap ..if you stay away from the obvious tourist trap bars/restaurants etc...talking of restaurants...at the foot of the Sugar loaf mountain is a top class restaurant....we had decided to eat once in one of those places..think its called ZUVU... ..this place was amazing...I had Zebu( the only beef i had all week...protein mainly chicken,pork. fish .prawns etc), plus manioc root , my nephew had the catfish .... it had a full sushi bar in it, buffet and ala carte...we had 3 kypreenias each and the bill came to £60-00 for the two of us...XLNT food...very friendly people ,maitre d spoke good english. Then we figured it out...it was an all you can eat place .. so if sushi is your game or you fancy a blow out this is a good spot to do it.

I truly would recommend the presidente for carnaval.....as for beach holidays...you will pay through the nose down there, but its a 20 min jaunt to Ipanema from hotel,so its your choice.

All in all found people very friendly...but expect to see people living on cardboard boxes out side the tube station at Cariocas... while some drive very expensive german sports cars...
One last warning..... if your a single man read the notice on the wall in every bar / hotel reception..its in portugese but basically tells you...Any body invoved in prostitution... including clients.. if caught could get a jail sentence of 4-6 years in prison.. so you have been warned.

This city in full flight is madder than a box of frogs ... and the drug of choice is Samba dancing... 20 locals ( known as Cariocas) one samba band and 20 cases of beer.... and you DO have a party on your hands. .... NOCHE









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