Jake was very quick to reply to all of my emails through the process of booking the place and helped me to get into rio and also to the apartment which was comforting especially as I gave someone on the other side of the world a lot of money. He quickly showed me around and then gave me and us complete privacy for us to enjoy our stay which was great. We felt as if we could enjoy ourselves without that fear of being watched, like some owners do.
He was quick to give me information about the local area and I felt completely safe and trusted his local knowledge.

The apartment had everything we needed and the balcony was great as we could sit outside and enjoy the views. The only negative is that is was smaller than expected on the photos which made it a little hard to move around the room when there were 4 of us, but for the location and in World Cup time, the place was great.

Jake quickly fixed any problems that came up which was appreciated.

THe area was great, the bus stop 20m away went to all the places we needed to go, the beach was close and vidigal town and the shops had everything we needed. We had a great time in vidigal favela and a must to see.