[EN] We stayed at Carlos' from the 5 to the 15 of march. The location is PERFECT. 200 meters to ipanema beach, 200 meters to general osorio Subway station (the Best way to move in a big and crowded city like Río) and 100 meters to a 24hs supermarket. There is a lot of bars, restaurantes and lanchonetes (places to eat snaks) near. The neighborhood is super safe and nice, as well as the building, that has 24 hs security.
Carlos is super kind. He answers always as fast as possible.
The apartment is as the pictures. Its very nice, normal sized. It's also very friendly: the decoration is really nice. The bed is confortable. The kitchen is full equiped, we cooked from pasta to Meat and chicken and everything was allright.
We only had two "issues". The first one is that the weather in Río is hot as hell (literally). The apartment has two fans, but one was broken. The room has air conditioner and was ok, but the livingroom NEEDS another one. Maybe when its not summer this is not a problem but in march we had 36 degrees. It was too much. Most of all if you Cook There: you really feel that you are in hell.
The other issue was with the shower. The shower is really small (not a problem, just an observation) and we couldnt get the water to be warm. It was ice-cold or hell-hot. As I said, Río is a hot city so it was not a problem for me to take ice cold showers and my girlfriend likes to burn herself with the water, but if you like warm showers you should ask Carlos before, because we just couldnt make it work. I recognize that we should have asked Carlos how to use the water heater, tho.
To resume, Carlos' apartment is safe, confy, clean and nice, and specially well located. Totally recomended.
[ES] Nos quedamos en lo de Carlos 10 días en marzo. El apartamento es tal cual lo ven. Super cómodo, bien decorado, limpio, la cocina super equipada, y sobretodo perfectamente ubicado. A metros de la playa, del metro (la mejor forma de moverse en rio), y de un supermercado 24hs. Además cerca de bares, restaurantes y en la Zona má linda de la ciudad.
Carlos es muy confiable, y responde todas las dudas rápido.
El único problema es que en rio hace muchísimo calor y en el living no hay aire acondicionado, solo dos ventiladores de los cuales andaba uno solo.
Muy recomendado, no lo duden.