Valeria's place is in a a very nice part of Rio de Janeiro. She was very helpful in showing me around and letting me know where I can get public transport from. However, for the whole of my stay at her place I did not have a key to the studio and everytime time I wanted something from the house I had to send her message. I found this very stressful and quite frankly unacceptable. I should have had the freedom to be able to go in and out of the house when I needed. She said that the previous host had broke the key in the lock but we were still able to use her key to get in so I am not sure how true that was. This was a really disappointing aspect of the stay.