Anna was a brilliant host, she organised for me to be picked up at the airport and made everything super smooth. Gave me a tour of her area the next day telling me the history and is a super proud Carioca. As i have travelled around Santa Theresa has become my favourite part of Rio. The other guests were always amazingly interesting and social and that added an unexpected bonus.

I looked through 300+ properties and was determined to stay in Ipenema, but kept getting drawn back to her property and i'm so pleased i did.

She has had a fascinating life, so do try to make time to talk to her about it. I could spend hours listening to the stories.

The pictures looked too good to really be true, but they were super accurate and the reality actually better than expected. Clean, everything worked. I can't find a fault. I think i experienced perfection that you just don't run into very often. Even when i needed a local sim she drove me into town and helped me to purchase one.

She is the standard everyone should aspire to.

Anna you should be charging more!

When i come back I'm coming here - you'll keep these rates for me though right? ;-)

Stuart