Thiago's place is very well located. You can walk easily to Copacabana or Ipanema beach. The house was very clean. However, I found a couple of cockroaches the night we arrived (coming out from the sink), which prevented us from sleeping. There is a pizzeria just behind the apartment, and you can listen to how they make the dough. It is noisy. We are a couple with a 3 year old, so it's not the ideal place for us. Other than that, we enjoyed our stay in Río.