Golden Tulip Ipanema Plaza  

The biggest benefit of this hotel is its location – 300 meters from the beach (you and up right at the gay beach if you are interested) and close to numerous restaurants and bars. The staff was very friendly and let us check-in early – as soon as the room was ready.

Rio is extremely expensive city so you need to re-adjust your expectations that you may have when seeing the price of this hotel, restaurants, etc. The breakfast is good but the room where it is served is very small for a hotel of this size. The bathrooms are basic, more like 3 start hotel.

The breakfast was excellent, the staff in the restaurant were friendly and very helpful. Having breakfast there was extremely worth the extra over other hotels we have stayed. The restaurant for lunch and dinner was also excellent. The location was ideal and close to the beach. The room and bathroom were clean. The roof top pool was very nice. The bed was extremely comfortable. The hotel staff were helpful. Transfers from and to the airport were arranged and the drivers were very pleasant and efficient. Due to some problems with booking, hotel upgraded to a larger suite. We also received extension to 6:00PM and paid the extra 1/2 day rate, well worth it.

The staff did not have a full understanding of places to go and see, directions to places and at times were not personable but rather just doing what a large hotel does in general. The rooms could use some updating, the lobby furniture could also be replaced with more current furniture. The walk to the beach, was not pleasant and the hotel should push the city to clean in up, very smelly. There needed to be more lounges next to the pool. The hotel should supply a list of places to see, places to eat etc., with addresses and locations. There seemed to be some problems with the hotel losing the reservation from Booking.com, that caused some concern on the day we were leaving for Buenos Aires

Good location.

Too expensive for the services and amenities. Breakfast could be improved. Wifi should be free when you pay that much for a room. They gym is in poor condition.

Good hotel in the heart of Ipanema and in front on the beach. Hotel staff very friendly.

Expensive price for this kind of hotel.

Great location for Ipanema beach and nightlife. Very friendly and helpful staff, and good security. Free wifi - although a bit slow at peak periods.

The quality of breakfast was a little disappointing, however there is an excellent cafe within 100 meters that is a great alternative.

The restaurant.

The air conditioner does not work properly; there are no actual temperasture numbers on the dial for control; it also does not seem to remove humidity from the air. I had it on max and felt hot and sweaty...

The hotel's relaxed, polite and attentive gay-friendly staff and gay-friendly atmosphere, as well as the hotel's location near the gay beach and near the Ipanema subway station.

The staff lets the tourist buses stand by, with their engine on, idling next to the hotel's breakfast open-air terrace, while their buses clients (hotel guests) make their way on board of the buses, disrupting the peace and quiet for everyone on the hotel's breakfast terrace. I brought this nuisance up to the attention of the front desk, but no action was taken by the front desk to ask the bus drivers to keep their engines turned off until they were fully loaded with passengers and ready to move.

Helpful front desk staff, good location, good size room, good beach service

Old Bathroom with leaking roof causing pools of water on the floor Room was not always being cleaned properly Wireless internet slow and expensive, in my opinion at this price room wireless internet should be free

great location

the breakfast was of poor quality as is the opium restaurant in general.

Could see Christo statue out of our window.

staff were very friendly in particular ricardo the manager at the front desk. ideally located just beside ipanema beach.

hotel was very expensive however it was peak season on our visit so everywhere was expensive or fully booked .there were issues with no hot water in our shower however when it was reported it was seen to and fixed immediately

Comfortable, efficient, nice breakfast, not too fancy but good. And you can open windows!

Slight annoying hum apparently in all rooms from aircon system

The comfort and the location.

Internet access was intermittent and the sushi restaurant is expensive.