Name: Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro
Address: Largo da Lapa , Downtown Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 20021-390, Brazil, Largo da Lapa, Rio de Janeiro State, 20021-390, Brazil
Price range: Prices for upcoming dates start at $11 per night (We Price Match)
Rating: 8.8

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Hotel Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro

This neighborhood is a great choice for travelers interested in bars, tourist attractions and sightseeing – Check location Largo da Lapa , Downtown Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 20021-390, Brazil – This neighborhood is a great choice for travelers interested in bars, tourist attractions and sightseeing – Check location Great location - show map – Subway Access

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*7.7* Arcos da Lapa - Carioca Acqueduct: only 3 minutes away! (700 feet by foot)

*7.9* Cinelândia Square: only 5 minutes away! (1,250 feet by foot)

*8.8* Municipal Theater: only 4 minutes away! (1,050 feet by foot)

*8.8* Selarón Steps: only 3 minutes away! (700 feet by foot)

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Débora

Brazil

I can meet travelers and parties are very fun, very nice staff too.

Sofia

Peru

Yessica and Sinan were the best! They wwre incredibly friendly and helpful to me when I needed to know information about getting around or finding a pharmacy. The view from the rooftop was very nice. Locker space fit a large suitcase.

Hernan

Brazil

Location is great! Right next to the Lapa steps and the viaduct where food vendors were set up at night. Also, just down the street from the main restaurant/bar street in Santa Teresa so we could walk. Easy walk to metro. Very nice for a hostel, rooftop is wonderful and courtyard is great place too. Front desk very nice.

Lori

United States of America

Proximity to the parties in Lapa, wonderful staff. & the bed was great!

Bianca

United States of America

Very cool place to stay in Lapa. Common spaces are great and the rooms are spare but comfortable and large.

Andrea

United States of America

The vibe of the place, the location, the crowd, the decor

Parth

India

Cleaning , library, rooftop, cinema room and the bed!

Sinan

Turkey

Everything, I can't remember any unlike moment during my period there.

Rafael

Brazil

The room is beautiful with a nice balcony. Make sure to get a room above deluxe or queen room category

Changmin

South Korea

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What guests loved the most:
“Hostel lindo, cama ótima e com ótimas opcoes de menu”

Débora Brazil
“I can meet travelers and parties are very fun, very nice staff too.”

Sofia Peru
“Yessica and Sinan were the best! They wwre incredibly friendly and helpful to me when I needed to know information about getting around or finding a pharmacy. The view from the rooftop was very nice.”

Hernan Brazil
“Location is great! Right next to the Lapa steps and the viaduct where food vendors were set up at night.”

Lori United States of America
“Proximity to the parties in Lapa, wonderful staff. & the bed was great!”

Bianca United States of America
“Very cool place to stay in Lapa. Common spaces are great and the rooms are spare but comfortable and large.”

Andrea United States of America
“The vibe of the place, the location, the crowd, the decor”

Parth India
“Cleaning , library, rooftop, cinema room and the bed!”

Sinan Turkey
“Everything, I can't remember any unlike moment during my period there.”

Rafael Brazil
“The room is beautiful with a nice balcony. Make sure to get a room above deluxe or queen room category”

Changmin South Korea

Stay in the heart of Rio de Janeiro – This neighborhood is a great choice for travelers interested in bars, tourist attractions and sightseeing – Check location Great location - show map

Offering a sun terrace and views of the city, Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro is located in the trendy Lapa district in Rio de Janeiro, 650 feet from Santa Teresa. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant, as well as a coffee house. It features air-conditioned rooms, a bar, a shared lounge and free WiFi throughout.

The hotel offers a continental or à la carte breakfast.

Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro offers a terrace, a 24-hour front desk and a shared kitchen.

The famous Sugarloaf Mountain is 5 mi from Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro, while Copacabana Beach is 4 mi away. The nearest airport is Santos Dumont Airport, 1.2 mi from the property.

Downtown Rio de Janeiro is a great choice for travelers interested in bars, tourist attractions and sightseeing.

Couples in particular like the location – they rated it 8.7 for a two-person trip.

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Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro has been welcoming Booking.com guests since Jul 18, 2016
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Free WiFi

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Non-smoking rooms

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Good for couples – they rated the facilities 8.8 for two-person stays.

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Top Location: Highly rated by recent guests (8.9)

Want a great night's sleep? This hotel was highly-rated for its very comfy beds.

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Continental, American

Free WiFi
Guests consistently rate the WiFi as excellent

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There are more repeat guests here than most other properties.

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Max adults: 2	Superior Double Room 1 queen bed
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Max adults: 2	Deluxe Room 1 queen bed
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Max adults: 2	Standard Double Room 1 queen bed
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Max adults: 4	Family Room 2 twin beds and 2 bunk beds
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Max adults: 1	Bed in Large Dorm 1 bunk bed
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Max adults: 2	Standard Twin Room 2 twin beds
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4 reasons to choose Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro

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Hotel surroundings

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What's nearby *

Arcos da Lapa - Carioca Acqueduct
0.1 miles
Public Promenade
0.1 miles
Selarón Steps
0.1 miles
Santa Teresa Neighborhood
0.2 miles
Municipal Theater
0.2 miles
Santa Teresa Tram
0.2 miles
Cinelândia Square
0.2 miles
Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro
0.3 miles
National Museum of Fine Arts
0.3 miles
National Library
0.4 miles

Natural Beauty *

Bondinho Santa Teresa Ski lift
6.1 miles

Beaches in the Neighborhood

Flamengo Beach White sand
Food & Drink

4,250 feet

Closest Airports *

Santos Dumont Airport
0.7 miles
Rio de Janeiro/Galeao International Airport
8.3 miles

Restaurant

Food: Brazilian

Open for: Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner

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Check-in

From 3:00 PM

Guests are required to show a photo ID and credit card at check-in

Check-out

Until 11:00 AM

Cancellation/
prepayment

Cancellation and prepayment policies vary according to accommodations type. Please enter the dates of your stay and check what conditions apply to your preferred room.

Children & Beds

Children of all ages are welcome.

To see correct prices and occupancy info, add the number and ages of children in your group to your search.

There's no capacity for cribs at this property.

This property doesn't offer extra beds.

Age restriction

The minimum age for check-in is 18

Pets

Pets are allowed on request. Charges may apply.

Visa Mastercard Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.

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Guests are required to show a photo ID and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.

Please inform Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro of your expected arrival time in advance. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly using the contact details in your confirmation.

From the nearest airport, you can get to Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro by:
- Car 35min
Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro offers the following activities/services (charges may apply):
- Library
- Evening entertainment
- Movie nights
- Yoga classes
- Happy hour
- Locker rooms
- Walking tours
Check-in at Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro is from 3:00 PM, and check-out is until 11:00 AM.
The prices at Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro may vary depending on your stay (e.g. dates, hotel's policy etc.). To see prices, enter your dates.
Room options at Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro include:
- Double
- Family
- Bed in Dorm
- Twin
Guests staying at Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro can enjoy a highly-rated breakfast during their stay (guest review score: 7.1).

Breakfast option(s) include:
- Continental
- American
- À la carte
Selina Lapa Rio de Janeiro has 1 restaurant:
- Restaurant

“Yessica and Sinan were the best! They wwre incredibly friendly and helpful to me when I needed to know information about getting around or finding a pharmacy. The view from the rooftop was very nice. Locker space fit a large suitcase. ”

“Location is great! Right next to the Lapa steps and the viaduct where food vendors were set up at night. Also, just down the street from the main restaurant/bar street in Santa Teresa so we could walk. Easy walk to metro. Very nice for a hostel, rooftop is wonderful and courtyard is great place too. Front desk very nice.”

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Reviewed: March 22, 2020

Angela
United Kingdom
9.0

“A great place to stay for downtown Rio”
- • Leisure trip
- • Solo traveler
- • Stayed 1 night
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Clean and very helpful and pleasant staff.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 22, 2020

Angela
United Kingdom

6 helpful votes
9.0

“Really flexible helpful accommodation ”
- • Leisure trip
- • Solo traveler
- • Stayed 1 night
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Location is very central but empty streets and everything shutdown due to covid gave an eerie feel.
Staff really nice and room clean and comfortable. Had room of 6 to myself due to covid😢. Everything I needed was available. Thank you.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 18, 2020

Débora
Brazil
10

“Surpreendente”
- • Business trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 1 night
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Hostel lindo, cama ótima e com ótimas opcoes de menu

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 16, 2020

Pieter
Belgium
1.0

“I would never again stay at this place!”
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 3 nights
breakfast wasn't included even though the price of this hostel/hotel is way above average. if you decide on paying for it, you get very low quality for the price. actually, prices of everything are ridiculously high. Acarajé for 20 reais!! this is insane... the air conditioning is by far the loudest of all the places I've stayed at (dozens if not hundredths). I'm rather sensitive to this so I actually had to wake up several times during the night to turn it off again. a while later I would wake up because of the heat and had to turn it on again. please note that I was using earplugs! this complaint wasn't taken seriously at all by the receptionist. It comes down to me not having a single good night's rest during my stay there. The room was the smallest I've had during my trip and didn't include basic things as a safety deposit box (and important for Brazilians, no television!) the provided soap flacon was empty, so washing of hands. rather unbelievable if everywhere there are papers telling us the wash our hands all the time.
some of the staff was friendly and helpful, not close to all of them though... that is all the positive feedback I can give. I would never stay again at this place.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 15, 2020

Mayan
Philippines

6 helpful votes
7.1

“It's okay”
- • Leisure trip
- • Solo traveler
- • Stayed 4 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Beds shake a lot like it's made of cheap material. Makes it uncomfortable to sleep freely and move at night because you know you'll bother either the bottom bed or the top bed. Internet was just abysmal. I stayed here thinking they'll have decent internet as I work online. It hardly ever worked. The kitchen is disgusting. Knowing the hostel holds a lot of people, you should clean the kitchen many times in a day and provide SPONGES. I saw a guest buy sponges for the kitchen because Selina couldn't even do that for the themselves. That's embarrassing. Generally clean ish but sometimes they do lazy cleaning in the rooms. Just changing floor towels and garbage. No sweeping whatsoever. I think my bed sheets weren't changed, just blankets as it was dirty. Staff can be more friendly. Not terrible but doesn't hurt to at least smile at all.
Location is good.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 12, 2020

Daniel
Germany

1 helpful vote
8.0

“Clean and central spot in Rio”
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 3 nights
I did not feel safe in the neighborhood.
Nice Staff. Good offer of city-tours and tickets for events. Clean and central near some restaurants and tourist attractions. Very close to Santa teresa, which is a nice spot of Rio.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 12, 2020

Noa
Israel
10

“The best hostel”
- • Leisure trip
- • Group
- • Stayed 1 night
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Amazing place , very comfortable , big rooms and nice restaurant.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 12, 2020

Elisa
Brazil
2.0

“Extremely disappointing!!!”
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 3 nights
We arrived late at night to a dirty room, with crumps of potato chips and glitter on the floor and carpet, stained sheets, potato chips packing on the bedside table, hairs on the bed, no hand towels and no shampoo, body shower or soap on the bathroom dispensers. On the next morning, when we came down to the reception to ask for the cleaning of the room, the missing towels and the refilling of the bathroom products, we were received with TERRIBLE costumer service. The man with whom we talked at the front desk was outright rude, unprepared to deal with customers, and unprofessional, as he looked at us with clear disdain and exasperation–as if we were asking too much. We were met with silence. The look was worsened when he realised that we were waiting for him to just tell us if and when something would be done about it. When we got back to the room, it had been cleaned, and the towels were put, but the shampoo and body shower bottles were filled with water, and the soap dispenser was still empty–and so it remained throughout the whole stay. The breakfast environment was dirty from a party Selina threw on the previous night, there was–AGAIN!–a hair on the dishes, and we were charged more that we have been told we would upon booking the stay. Overall, the sense was that we stayed at a BAD youth hostel for which we should have paid 6 EUR a night. It was a complete disappointment, waste of money, and it had a very bad impact over the quality of our trip experience. We would have expected Booking to be more careful and thorough, what makes us wonder whether it is worth it continuing using the Booking.com plataform.
The architecture of the building is beautiful, the decoration is well thought and the installations are modern.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 11, 2020

Anonymous
Israel
7.5

Good
- • Leisure trip
- • Travelers with friends
- • Stayed 4 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
The staff was not pleasant, when we request things (such as early check in, having the lower beds etc..) we got rude negative answers with no explanation. (Im traveling for 3 months, its not the first time I request those things. I didn’t appreciate at all the way we got treated by the staff. Twice the cleaners throw staff we had in the room (our fault it wasn’t in the lockers), when we spoke to the recaption the dismiss us (the said they will talk to the cleaners and after few hours when we asked again they said the cleaners didn’t throw anything. We know for sure it wasn’t stolen because we knew everyone in the room. We came to this hostel because we know it has a high standard the facilities are amazing, we felt like the staff Treating us with contempt as if it were obvious that no matter what we would stay in this hostel.
The facilities are amazing. The rooms are clean, one of the best showers i had during the trip. The beds have curtains , shelf, and a light. There are lockers and hanging places. There is a nice kitchen,sitting areas.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 11, 2020

Eden
Brazil
4.0

Disappointing
- • Leisure trip
- • Group
- • Stayed 2 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
The staff was unpleasant and unwilling to help. The breakfast is poor and not worth the price.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 10, 2020

Monika
Poland
8.0

Very Good
- • Leisure trip
- • Travelers with friends
- • Stayed 2 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Plastic cups for breakfast, no trash recycling, slow and messy service in the bar
Location, interior design, live music

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 9, 2020

Sarah
Ireland
10

Exceptional
- • Leisure trip
- • Travelers with friends
- • Stayed 6 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Nothing
Love everything. The staff were fabulous. Rooms spotlessly clean, airy and very comfortable. Excellent facilities. Great bar menu food delicious. Excellent location.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 9, 2020

Pierre
Canada
3.0

“Avoid staying there”
- • Leisure trip
- • Group
- • Stayed 2 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
No fridge in room. Furniture flimsy. Staff unfriendly. Common kitchen disgustingly dirty. Only one elevator working. Noisy at night with guests shouting. Asked for late check out and was told I had to pay half of the nightly price. Thir checkout is 11 am. Air conditioning very noisy and dirty. I do not recommend this place at all.

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 7, 2020

Jamie
Australia

6 helpful votes
7.0

“Easy Improvements would give it a 9 or 10”
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 1 night
- • Submitted from a mobile device
The cleanliness of the common areas was pretty poor. The downstairs bathrooms always seemed to be filthy or had no toilet paper. The kitchen was really bad. There was leftover food in the bench that had been there forever and the sink, walls and cook top around the cooking area was honestly filthy. It didn't even hace a spatula!! We saw someone come and clean but it was still the same after.. our stay was during carnival so maybe that could be the excuse. Breakfast was average for how much it costs.
The manager and most of the staff were really good and attentive even though they were busy. The private room we had was awesome and the cleaners come in if you want them to each day. It was incredible how quiet the room was even though there was a party upstairs and in the lapa area each night. The food supplied outside of breakfast was also very good. We enjoyed our stay but a shame that the kitchen wasn't up to a good standard.

Stayed in February 2020
Reviewed: March 6, 2020

Michelle
Ireland
8.0

Very Good
- • Leisure trip
- • Travelers with friends
- • Stayed 4 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Understaffed and took quite a while to be seen to. Staff seemed quite stressed at check in and out times. Kitchen wasn't very clean and wifi was bad.
Perfect location for Carnaval. Great value for money and very comfortable room.

Stayed in March 2020

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