Great host. Great apartment in a nice safe area with lovely views (particularly at sunset). Comfy bed, good air conditioning, good tv, good WiFi, photos do it justice, safe & secure building. All in all a really lovely place to stay.
However, the apartment is extremely close to a local airport which makes it a plane spotters paradise but it does mean that from 6am - 11pm you will hear the sweet sounds of jet engines.
This could be our bad luck and not a regular thing but there were also very loud concerts nearby until 5am on all nights of both of the weekends we were there.
Rio is a great city, we really loved our stay in the apartment. Thanks again to Alex for being so helpful and responsive.