Copacabana Rio Hotel  

I did not like anything I intend never to return at this hotel. They feature a photo of the room, but when you arrive is not like that. For one quarter the cost is too high, for half the price would be easy. Hotel is old, noisy, full of bugs in the room. The bed is tiny and my feet were out. The coffee is poor without replacement of food in the buffet. Booking should disqualify this hotel.

The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. I mean extremely. Would give them a score of 200% on friendliness and usefulness.

The hotel was not very clean. It was a little noisy at night. The windows didn't close completely and so there were mosquitoes in the room. I could smell cigarette smoke coming from the adjacent room through a door that could be opened with a special key to connect the two rooms in the case of a family with kids staying at the hotel. Two light bulbs were not working the first night. When the tab for the sink in the bathroom was not used for a couple of hours and the cold water was turned on, there was rusty water coming out of the faucet for a few seconds. The tv was small and had relatively few channels, and no international ones.

The location, the service, the breakfast, the bed, the internet connection in the room, the rooftop swimming pool, the free secure luggage storage after checkout. did I mention the location....

The room was really small and with out a window, but who books a hotel in Rio to stay in there room?

The location and my earlier pre-visit in the hotel promised a lot. The fitness center is ok. View fine.

From 10th floor and up, rooms ending with 2 and 3 has good views. Top floor pool too has an amazing view.

No windows in 404, probaby the same for all the rooms that ends wtih a 4. ('think they call it a studio). We paid 550-600 US$ for a room for a night for the days around new years. It is too much if you end up with no fire escape and no connection with the street party. New Years 2012 the cost was 225 US$ to acces top floor, which also was a drawback for us.

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The staff was friendly and helpful.

Despite being only a block from the beach, it is a very urban location.

We picked the hotel from a web search. It is a very good, clean hotel, perfectly located one block from copacabna beach and six blocks from ipanima. Great places to eat just outside the door, easy transportation (ask desk about using busses) to more distant locations. Because of water and mountain seperations of city parts, it can be a fairly expensive cab ride to other parts of the city. The view from the pool area on top of the building is not equaled anywhere in the city. The included breakfast is as good as any non- 5-star offers. We got our money's worth and would not have traded for any other hotel in the area. The desk has excellent command of English. Don't take the tours they offer unless you are really willing to pay top dollar for something you can obtain more cheaply with a little more effort. This is where we would stay if in Rio again. Easy and safe walking areas all around the hotel, though not ideal areas for ladies to shop, according to wife. Web connections were fine. The exchange rate at the desk was just reasonable, but convenient.

We were not too fond of the very hard beds in our room but it was very quiet on the back side of the hotel, therefore a small compensation. The hotel might ask at on-line reservation if some of us older guests might prefer something a little softer!

Very good location, almost in front of the beach and cheap food right next to the hotel. Bus stop is in front of the hotel and a supermarket a couple of meters away The roof top pool has a nice view but the weather was poor so we didnt get to use it.

The staff was very unfriendly obviously sees tourists as milking cows for money not to see them ever again. The consierge was bargaining with me on the taxi cost, normally costing 40 real he wanted 80 (in a 4 star hotel this happening?) + when i asked the receptionist to call me a taxi by phone (A gentleman called fabrizio) he said "i dont have time for this". For the money there is definetly better!! if you can, go somewhere else.

Very helpful staff, free WiFi, a simple but clean room, an exceptional breakfast in a super location.

We had two rooms and both of them were smelling s permanently from the hotels cuisine although it was in the 11th floor. We have stayed at the hotel 7 nights therefore we have asked from the first night to change a room to a another one but they just changes us florr and the rooms was still smelling. The sheets were torn

Friendly and helpful staff; perfect location; beautiful room.

Toilet in the room did not flush. I asked to change rooms and was told that all rooms had the same problem.