Windsor Excelsior Hotel

... 30th - First day was spent walking around and doing a bit of shopping, etc.  We had an awesome hotel room (Windsor Excelsior Hotel) on the 7th floor which overlooked Copacabana Beach where the New Year’s celebrations are to occur.  ...

... as I admired the sunrise and stunning mountainous landscape of Rio de Janeiro.  By 8:00am, we were at our hotel, the Windsor Excelsior which sat on a wide corner lot offering excellent ocean views across from the famous Copacabana Beach.  We ...

... installed and provided relief by wetting the sand. We settled on two nice comfy long beach chairs supplied by our hotel, the Windsor Excelsior where a staff rapidly installed an umbrella in between and covered the chairs with towels.  We were in ...

... Rise and shine.  This morning, I got up much earlier than the previous two days.  By 6:30am, I was on the 14th floor hotel's rooftop terrace viewing one more time…. guess what…. the sunrise!  And guess what!  I wasn’t ...

... part of our main tour and that I definitely wanted to see and do. We were picked up on time at 2:00pm in front of the hotel.  Two people plus two guides (one on training) were already seated in the back of the jeep as we settled at the end giving ...

... No complaints here! It was 8:00pm when we left the fort’s premises and started walking back in the direction of our hotel.  The walkway was quite crowded with tourists and locals out at night plus lots of activities were going on along the ...

... me understand why so many people came here every night just to witness this magnificent phenomenal. The walk back to our hotel was a pleasant one in which darkness soon enveloped us and in the process giving us stunning views of Copacabana’s ...

... .  It was a nice way of ending our day with Tia our tour guide. Thanking her for her services we then walked the ten minute short distance to our oceanfront hotel.  By then, it was exactly 4:00pm, 8 hours later.  Monique   ...

... at my watch and since we still had some time available before the start of our tour, we hurriedly went to the hotel’s 14th floor rooftop terrace to witness just like yesterday morning the sunrise over Copacabana’s Beach and the mountains. ...

... shower, it was now time to go out and have fun starting with a good relaxing dinner.  Right next to our hotel, a fine cozy little Italian restaurant with a front terrace looked quite inviting.  Therefore, in that direction we went sitting close ...