Giles place is situated in a good location and Gilles is a fairly nice guy.
However the flat is nothing like the pictures, the furniture is old and worn. The dinning chairs are plastic.
The kitchen is unusable, its crawling with mites and bugs.
3 of the bedrooms do not have doors on them.
There is no air-con in the communal area-living room so its really sticky and sweaty, there is a fan that helps.
The walls are scuffed and haven't been repainted for some time, the ledges are flithy and need dusting.
The floor was covered in some sticky, waxy stuff that Gilles said was cleaning product that had, had a reaction to the floor.
The beds were infested with mites, and we were bitten all over they even got into our suitcases.
We arrived at around 22.00 and had no choice but to spend the night in the morning at 7.00am (as we could not sleep, our to bugs in the beds) we left the place and checked into a hotel.
A very disappointing start to our stay in Rio, I'm glad to stay the rest of the stay was amazing, Rio is such a great place.