Paloma made us very welcome from before we arrived and in the day. The apartment is beautiful, light and in a great neighbourhood. Worth knowing that there's some noise from the road and from the nearby bars, but I think that's just Rio and it wasn't too much. Lovely store nearby for most food basics and lots of bars and restaurants. Our kids (age nearly 7 & 9) loved the beds up the ladders. Paloma made herself available for anything we needed and was really very kind - it was a pleasure to stay at her apartment.