1 block from Copacabana Beach and The Fort (which you can enter free with your key card sleeve by the way), you cannot beat the location. The lobby is beautiful. The staff is amazing and all speak English. They have good drinks and snacks to buy in the lobby as well as beach toys such as soccer balls for kids to borrow. The $7 per day breakfast is huge and high value. The rooms were ok—I needed to extra-scrub the bathroom myself as I have gotten sick from hotel bathroom mold before. They had no fitted sheets on the beds so my flat bottom sheet kept sliding up.The A/C in the lobby and rooms and breakfast room were great. The hallways and elevators had no A/C, which I didn’t love. The rooftop pool is tiny but the deck is nice and they were retiling while we were there to improve it even more. You cannot get past Floor 1 without a key card, which I loved for safety. On busy New Years Eve, you had to have a bracelet to even enter the lobby. We had two rooms and received free Rio tote bags for each guest as well as a small comp champagne bottle and glasses. Nice surprises. In one of our rooms, the bathroom door hit the toilet, so you could not fully open it. And the bathrooms disappointingly didn’t have A/C, which I view as critical during hot Rio summers. So mixed, but it’s near family for us so we’ll likely be back. Overall a good experience and sharing this feedback to be constructive to the management!