So impressed with this stay! Great spacious apartment. Excellent location-2 blocks from the beach @ posto 10. Wonderful view of the ocean and you can still see Christo and logoa. Definitely the most well equipped kitchen I have seen yet, which was a very nice surprise. It has a wrap around balcony to soak up all the great atmosphere of Ipanema. The host is very well traveled and has compiled 3 books for visitors, one for the apartment with copies of users manuals for every machine located inside, one she compiled a Rio tour guide and the other a tour guide for Brazil outside of Rio. I was amazed! I would highly recommend to everyone, especially first timers to Rio.