Overall the stay at this apartment was very disappointing. I come to Rio once a month for 10 days to visit my daughter, and I always stay at an AirBnB. The description didn't mention that there is no elevator. Doorman was basically non-existent. Also, in the living room the window area looks like that there was some water intrusion in the past with mold stains. That is not very appealing. The German description of the apartment implied that the host speaks German, but as a matter of fact she doesn't and did not give an explanation why the main description is in German. It is a bit misleading because I booked it because I am a German national.
The TV didn't work in the beginning and the host fixed it so that my daughter could watch her favorite channels. Then from one day to another the TV and those channels that my daughter was watching stop working and the channels that did work had a loud vibration noise - basically you could not watch TV anymore. I asked the host for repair but no answer.
Also, the bed in the second bedroom basically had no mattress, it was stone hard.
Also, I had wished the host had provided more than 3 towels for 1 week for 3 people.