Rio de Janeiro Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Well not a great start in all honesty. We´ve fallen out, and ems run off with all the money, think I saw her running accross the beach, hand in hand with a Brazilian wearing only his pants...or maybe speedos! No but seriously it started off with our flight from Guernsey arriving in London all fine on the Saturday morning at 8, to find our next f...

Yesterday was work, we painted a street! Ended up covered in paint from head to toe in the dashing shade of salmon! Thankfully after a lot of scrubbing it all came off, although on the way back home i did get a few people stopping me asking what was wrong - obviously looked like i was diseased. Best moment was when we were painting one ladies ho...

Just logging in as I arrive here in Brazil. We landed on a thick clouds and it was almost touch down when the clouds cleared the airport view. We had an hour stop over at Sao Paulo then a 33 minutes hop to Rio. The hostel I´m staying in is nice, more than what I expected from a hostel. I´ll upload some pics tonight, for now, I have to look for a...

Tuesday November 20th Rio, Rocinha and the Santa Teresa tram Rocinha is the largest favela in Rio. Favelas are known as slums, but after seeing Rocinha 'slum' has taken on another meaning. We booked a tour through the hotel and found ourselves with a couple from Morocco and another couple from South Africa, all of us English-speaking. Our guide ...

I must apologise for the lack of pictures I have of Rio, I just realized i took hardly any when i left the place, largely because i was afraid my camera would get nicked, and it was a bit of an ordeal to put the camera in and out of my bag since i am slow and have poor coordination, so I didn't bother too much. So I missed out on some really goo...

Oh, I upload some photos of the Alabama game. Check them out, the one with Ewee and Stabler and the one with me drinking a beer in the Law Enforcement tent kill me. Tuesday, Rio was cloudy and looked like it was going to rain all day long in case you were wondering why I wasn´t at the beach. Today, wake up to pounding rain and it sucks ass. I to...

Okay we admit, Lapa is the ghetto, its cheap and it is f*#king ROCKING! We are absolute regulars every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Thursday night we hit Febarj - our favorite, a old warehouse built in 1911, best DJ with rnb beats, hip-hop, Brazilian funk and mixes of slow jams. Friday night we join the street party, meeting tons of people out...

hy como va aca estamos em la cidade maravillosa, rio de janeiro. llegamos de ilha grande y todo estaba carisimo. fuimos a un hostal de israelitas asumidos con nuestra mala suerte y nos ofrcieron un departamento en copacabana, simple, pero casi al mimo prcio que el hostal de israelitas, y a 1 cuadra de la playa de copacabana. asiq ue filete, ya d...

Met up with my grandfather and mentally prepared for what was to be the VERY arduous trip to their house about 3 hours away. First we had to get on a bus (like a Greyhound) to take us to the bus station in Rio. Then there was the dragging heavy luggage about 300 metres to our bus stop. I felt like a pack-mule. I was dragging the two heaviest pie...

I can´t even explain how excited I am to be in Brazil. The city is much different than I had actually expected. I had been warned that there is a lot crime, but this is unreal! I grabbed a cab from my hotel and asked them to take me to a citibank to get some cash (my card was having issues with the atm´s). They actually refused to leave me there...