The View from Thiagos Place is fantastic. We enjoyed our visit a lot, and if you want to experience a bit of Favela Flair, then this might be your choice. Consider you have to walk up the Hill every time though. The Taxi Drivers drive up most of the time, so worst case you have to walk all the way (5-10 Minutes) or the Taxi brings you there and you walk like 3 minutes or so. Thiago helped us with the luggage both times which was very nice. There are little stores there for water, beer and other needful things, im sure you can get something good to eat too but we did not try. Make sure you can call Thiago when you arrive (we asked the cab driver to do that). Its not hard to find, only when youre there the first time ist a little tricky. Basically you walk up und keep to the left. Enjoy! :)