First and foremost THERE IS NO AIR CONDITIONING except in the very small bedrooms.
He doesn't list it anywhere except in the fine print under house rules in Portugese!.. Not in the house rules in English or anywhere else. He is very unethical. He doesn't offer any corona virus refund unlike Airbnb rules. He told me 30 minutes before arriving that the front door men are old and cannot be there. There is corona virus and i get all food delivered. I asked right then for a refund, and he said no. He said it was no issue. Well you have to go through a garage gate, down a steep incline, and up garage elevator to the back part of building where there is trash in hallways. Even though you paid full price you can't use the front door!!!!.......Then i get there and there is no air conditioning in any rooms except bedrooms. I owned a 30 million dollar company and now turn businesses around. I read everything because I have to have air conditioning especially in RIO. He tells me that it is in the house rules in PORTUGESE.. not the house rules or any part of the description that was in English. Right then after first the front door not working and him telling me he just found out then burying the lack of air conditioning in the Portugese house rules I realized i was dealing with a scammer. I told him that he falsely advertised the property when using his maid's phone. He screamed at me " get out get out get out".. so i booked another property. He then after telling me to get out by screaming at me told me that he wasn't refunding my money. Whomever took the pictures of this place must have been cruise ship photographer because it is no way as big as the pictures look. I can assure you that there are a ton of places in Rio along the beach in same price range that will be much better for anyone but this place or this owner. Lord knows what happens if you get sand in his house and he charges you $150.
First I travel on business over 200 nights a year, and have no issues with other airbnb owners. This owner expects people to not get sand in his house or a charge. Turn off air in bedroom when not in the bedroom. In fact I am renting an airbnb in Medellin at the same time as renting this one until I can get back to Colombia.
Just because he is Superhost he thinks that he is right. Well all that means to me is a lot of people refuse to write bad reviews because other owners won't rent to them. IN FACT he threatened me that he would tell everyone not to rent to me.