Name: Villa Del Sol
Address: Estrada do Pontal 7100 Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 22785-560, Brazil
Rating: 7

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Pontal Beach

Jacarepagua Airport

Tijuca National Park

Leblon Beach

Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Maracana Stadium

Christ the Redeemer

Arpoador Beach

Copacabana Fort

RioZoo

Sugarloaf Cable Car

AquaRio

Selaron Steps

Catedral de Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro

Aterro do Flamengo Park

Arcos da Lapa

National Fine Arts Museum

Museum of Modern Art

Museu do Amanhã

Santos Dumont Airport

Galeao Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport

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Rio de Janeiro

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This is a 4-star condotel which you may either book directly with the hotel or with the owner of an apartment.

We booked our apartment on the 6th floor directly from an owner through Airbnb.

Alexandre is the owner we rented from.

To locate his Airbnb listing, do a search for "O charme de estar em frente à praia".

He is a multi-lingual 5-star ***** Airbnb host who is able to communicate fluently in English with us.

His apartment is very well-equipped and since he is a food director, there is almost every cooking/dining/drinking equipment & utensil you can find in the world in his home, including the biggest & best designed world-class refrigerator we have ever enjoyed using in our life.

For long term stays, Alexander's apartment includes weekly cleaning by hotel staff and a change of bed linen & towels.

Parking is safe and secure in the underground garage.

Service at the hotel reception desk is professional & friendly, and there is usually someone who is able to communicate in English.

Food served at the restaurant is simple & good and reasonably priced.

Well-stocked supermarkets for grocery and modern shopping centres are just 15 minutes away by car.

In Rio, you would usually have to carefully walk across a busy road with vehicular traffic from your apartment building to get to the beach.

Here, however, there is no road or vehicular traffic between the apartment building and the beach.

The location is perfect ... literally just next to the beach without any cars in the way.

We suggest staying here during weekdays when it is quieter and there is less people.

It can get very crowded and noisy during weekends and holidays.

In-house wi-fi is fast here ... typically over 40+ Mbps.

There is a transmission tower nearby and we find that 3G phone connectivity from service provider CLARO (averaged over 20+ Mbps) is much faster than 4G from TIM (about 10+ Mbps).

There are many surfers here, riding the waves from sunrise till sunset.

Day and night, you will hear the waves breaking onto the shore from your apartment.

Standard 1-bedroom apartments here are compact in size - as are most residential properties in Brazil - but the balcony for Alexandre's apartment is more spacious than what you see in the photos.

It is simply fabulous to wake up every morning and be able to see the soft white sand beach from your bed.

Feel free to contact Alexandre through Airbnb to book his apartment. We highly recommend him as your host.

You will find his hospitality exceptional, just as his many other Airbnb guests have written in their reviews.

Have a great time!

PERFECT Location ... Just Next To A Soft White Sand Beach

Having viewed some of the absolute kips available for extortionate prices during this summers world cup we ended up here. The rooms were VERY modern with a nice balcony overlooking the beach and a jacuzzi outside (Not used as it was very cold throughout our stay).
The only downside was we didnt realise how far away from Copecabanna we were (Should have checked but this was our fault). It looks like this area is full of Brazilian tourists and there is not much nightlife here. Taxi ride to Copacabanna is going to cost you about 30 euro.
Big thumbs up to the staff who were freindly throughout. Some of them able to speak English which is a big plus in a country where English is not spoken much.

Great Value during the World cup

I stayed there for about 3 weeks and it was just not pleasant stay.

Even though the sea view was very nice and the pool was nice - the rooms are very bad.

1. The beds are not comfortable and very old.
2. The bad sheets are not attached to the bad and they are falling immediately (unlike any other hotel I have ever been in.
3. many ants all over. 
4. There is Wifi internet only on the loby, at the room it is only wired.
5. The bath has strange behavior with the water, when you open the water there - the Sink is opening .

I changed 5 rooms during that time - the same issue for all of them.

If you can avoid - do it.

Very unpleasant...

The hotel is just in front of the beach: a famous place for surfers.
Then take care to ask a room on the beach side: the street side is very noisy.
The rooms are normally big, but quality not so good, also due to the high humidity coming from the ocean. Normally with a small kitchen, quite useful, and good quality of air conditioning.
The people are normally friendly, but not speaking English.
And the room are also normally expensive.
The city is far away, then it's not a place to stay for visiting Rio.
Go to visit la Prainha, a very nice and quiet beach nearby.
I recommend a dinner to Carlo - Pedasinho de Italia: it's just a kiosk on the beach, but Carlo is excellent. And Spaghetti Camarao e Abobrina are fantastic ... give my (Riccardo) regards to Carlo, please.

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