Rio de Janeiro Hostels - Reviews and Rates

26/03 - After nearly a 9 hour flight we have arrived in a new continent & a new country. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. After a couple of hours catch up sleep we went for a wander around the hotel. We are not in a very area but it is too expensive for us to move to a nicer area so we just grabbed some dinner at the hotel. 27/03 - Much better today,...

Another two day bus journey down to Rio! But this time the bus was full so had to stick to our single seats. We got to Rio and it was pouring with rain so went to a hostel named Ipemena Girl, it was expensive and a dive so when the rain stopped we got a refund and headed out elsewhere. Ended up in a hotel for not much more and including an aweso...

Joe says: Finally were here the great Rio arrived at the bus terminal and were supposed to be collected by the hostel we were stayin at but 40mins later still no sign so we decided to get a taxi(bad start)but we were optomistic boy were we in for a shock. We got to the hostel were shown around which took 10 seconds n they kept emphasing that the...

Our hotel, the Porto Bay Rio Internacional, rated number 1 in Rio on tripadvisor.com and a coupe of blocks away from the Copacabana Palace Hotel, the "Savoy" of Rio, was a brilliant place to stay. We had managed to get a room move from the 6th floor to a suite on the 18th of our 20 storey building so had magnificent views of Copacabana Beach, Ri...

Today was our last and favorite day in Rio, and it just so happens that today was Dia Dos Namorados (Valentine's Day) in Brazil. We started off the day with a half hour (18km) cab ride half way across Rio to downtown where we checked out the old palace of the king of Portugal, where he lived when Napoleon kicked him off the Continent. It's a mus...

Hola!!! We have arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and are so far having a ball! We are staying one block away from Ipanema beach (the most famous beach in the world...but more about that later) and it is perfect! We just came back from drinking caprinhas (which are about 80 perfect alcohol laden) on the beach... so I hope this letter makes sense...

More benders, late night unsactioned favella tours, the arrival of the most interesting room mate, hang gliding from the site where it all began and a massive Samba street party - busy days in Rio... The 3rd of January spelt the end of a month and a half of travelling with four good mates. Ofcourse there was a send off the night before, a samba ...

For those of you who were waiting with baited breath for our next entry... James did survive the Pantanal, none the worse for wear (although full of complaints). We arrived back in Rio courtesy of some interesting budget flights, like the pilot who nearly missed the runway, stomped on the accelerator to amend the problem, then found he nearly co...

Wednesday 5th April We arrived in Rio in the dark, having come via Sao Paolo (which looks enormous). We woke up to look from the top floor of our hotel all along Copacabana beach (we are right on the front). The weather stays wonderful and we spent our first day taking the train up to ´Christ the Redeemer´. We can really see what an amazing sett...

We went on a tour of Rio´s peaks today. We went up the hill known as the Corcovado to see the massive Art-Deco sculpture known as Christ the Redeemer. The statue has looked down on Rio since 1932 and it has undergone considerable refurbishment in recent years. Now it is possible to take an elevator and an escalator to the top whereas beforehand ...