Location of the apartment is ideal - two blocks from the beach, two blocks from the new Line 4 metro, across the street from a grocery store and restaurant. Leblon is a safe area with a lot nearby. The room itself is spacious and the bed is comfortable. Unfortunately the check in process was a mess - the host was in the countryside in an area with no cellphone service and had not told the building security that I would be arriving, so I spent 40 minutes trying to contact him before the guard finally found the keys. The backup number he had given me was for a different family with no connection to the host. The situation could have been prevented with better communication and/or a backup contact if the host is not in town.