I endorse this apartment with great enthusiasm. I am a professor of
mathematics and my wife is an artist: for us the apartment couldn't be
better. Not only is the view from it exceptional, as promised, but the
wonderful, big living room is ideal for me to work in and is also great for
my wife to paint in. Djamila is a genuinely kind, approachable, obliging
hostess, and the maid looking after the apartment is absolutely lovely. We
(my wife and I) consider them as good as possible. It is not by chance that
we stay there over and over again.
We are looking forward to our return next year.
Needless to say, the cost is high, but (for us) the quality we get is worth
the expense. The apartment's location is great for us, but it isn't so
great if you want to go to the Carneval. (We have no desire to go to any of
the events.)
This year we were somewhat unlucky, because from 9a.m. to 5p.m. there was
incessant hammering in a neighbouring apartment, as if a busy woodpecker
had some urgent job to do. But that is definitely *not* Djamila's fault. It
just meant that I spent more time in the Mathematical Institute than I
would have spent otherwise.
All in all, with Djamila's apartment our stay in Rio is wonderful: I
strongly doubt that we would go if we couldn't stay there.