Porto Bay Rio Internacional Hotel

... area around was quite impressive, quite unlike the areas around the road that took us there. We got to our hotel Porto Bay Rio International, which was right opposite the imposing copacabana facade. The beach looked amazing in the baking sun and ...

... .00am we leave The Mango Tree (which has been great) and its slightly damp double room, and grab a cab to the Porto Bay Rio Internacional on Copacabana Beach. 11.20am we´re sipping sparkling wine on the 20th floor pool terrace of said hotel, toasting ...

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 ...

... . Earlier we had planned to have lunch at a food joint called China in Copa along the Copacabanna beach. At the hotel restaurant we ordered lime caipirinhas (made from cachaca- Sugarcane Rum) and mixed fish grill with rice. We expected variety ...

... towns in the hills. A lot of these people were late teen's but we saw some that looked 12-14 years old.  The area of the hotel was nice but driving there had a few shady spots. It was night already by the time we got to the hotel so we just unpacked ...

... in all the trip to the top of that mountain was not to be - oh well, well just have to come back another day... Our hotel was everything we'd hoped for. It is midway along the Copacabana malecon and from the pool on the 20th floor we could see just about ...

Trip to Christ missing. Took taxi from hotel - cost us just over R$10 but the taxi driver tried to sell us other trips to Rio which we didnt take. Apparently you can go up to the top either by car or by a funicular railway. We chose to take the safer ...