Rio de Janeiro Resorts - Reviews and Rates

Rio our first day in Rio, we met our German friends right in front the Jesus Christ statue on top of one of the highest mountains in Rio. Later, we went with them to experience the beach culture of the cariocas (natives of Rio) in the famous beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. We had some local weird snack and drank some coconut milk while watchi...

Get into Rio and get myself settled into a hostel. Have a wonder around and book myself onto a tour for next morning. My flight leaves tomorrow at 10pm. The tour heads up to the Christo on the hill and you really do get an amazing, if not misty view. Plus we went past the football stadium built for the world cup in the 1960's and the Sambadrome ...

After a 13 and half hour plane journey we finally arrived at Rio airport only to get stuck in the middle of a Polish tour group queing for passport control. We met Jorge, a taxi driver outside who quickly snapped us up before we even had a chance to think about buses, but we managed to negotiate the price, and were actually quite entertained by ...

Big plans for today so the alarm went off at 805 However, the big plans involved going to Copacobana and Impanema beaches and it was still ******ned raining! However, **** it, so met up with Woz, Jane, Scott and Jenni to go there anyway at 1045. Took the metro and walked. Unfortunately, although it didn`t rain all the time it was heavily overcas...

Rio gets a lot of hype as a city. After 10 days I can see why. It was hard to find the balance between doing all of the standard touristy things while still managing to get out and be day to day, but I sort of managed to do it. I stayed at a hostel that organized a tour almost every day, which seemed great at first but in hindsight was probably ...

We have made heaps of friends at the hostel including some Aussies, Germans, British etc. We are all revved up to go to the soccer final at Macarana Stadium, until we're told the tickets are all sold out! ARRGGH, with a lot of Aussie spirit, the gang decides not to give up and we all catch the metro to the stadium. There are masses of people, al...

Chasing after the iconic Ipanema girl image immortalised by Sinatra, we jet-setted our way to Rio de Janeiro, the heart of Brazil. Despite not knowing a word of Portuguese, with a Lonely Planet phrasebook in one hand, and Amalia in the other, we boarded the first bus we saw at the airport and somehow ended up in front of our hostel. "Janey Lu!!!...