Positives: Location! Close to the beach, the subway and lots of restaurants. Although the room itself is small there is a walk in closet where you could put your bags/hang clothes so they were out of the way.
Negatives: It is advertised as a boutique accommodation, but in reality it is just a basic room in a run down apartment. When we arrived there were construction materials piled in the entryway, hallway, and the kitchen and the day we left the some kitchen cabinets were laying on the floor of the kitchen. The kitchen was not usable during our stay. When I wrote to the owner letting him know that I would have appreciated a heads up that the apartment was under construction/being renovated he said that only the laundry room was and that it didn’t affect us, which was clearly not the case. All of this we were willing to overlook, as we would be spending very little time at the apartment since we only had 2 days in Rio and we wanted to make the most of our stay. However, at the end of our first day in Rio, we came back to the apartment after 7 hour tour to find there was no water at all. We informed our local contact, Cléa, who was at the apartment when we got back and she got some guy to come in to look at it. 20 minutes later the water came on so all was well. The same evening we went to dinner and came back at 11:30pm and again there was no water. We texted Cléa and she came to the apartment called a guy again and the water came on as a trickle this time, but enough to brush our teeth and call it a night. The next morning we woke up early since it was our last day in Rio, only to find there was no water again. We contacted Cléa and the owner. After an hour Cléa tells us that it is a building problem and someone will come fix it 1pm. By this time it was 10am and we had already wasted 2 hours waiting for water. Not willing to wait any longer we booked a hotel for our last night and left the apartment at 11am. The owner (who does not live in Rio), when we finally heard back from him, was unhelpful concerning the problem and told us that the water came on just after we left at 11am. No way for us to confirm that it did, In the end, Airbnb came through in helping us. Owner
Would not recommend staying here