This is a really well situated apartment, close to Copacabana and quite close to Ipanema. It is extremely convenient for General Osorio metro station. It is spacious, and having a doorman is great when you have lots of people staying. The main living areas are stylish and comfortable. The WiFi is fast and stretches through the whole apartment.

There are a couple of major disadvantages. On Friday and Saturday nights there is a massive all night dance party occurring in the favela directly behind the apartment. The music is extremely loud and continues until 7am. We all ended up sleeping on the couches in the TV room and the main room on the two weekends we stayed.

The condition of the apartment overall is not great. The bedrooms, kitchen, and bathrooms are a little grotty, with exposed bulbs, poor paintwork, broken window frames etc. The towels, bed linen and bath mats are low quality. Some parts of the apartment are extremely dark. The kitchen is poorly equipped, so that is is difficult to cook even a basic meal.

We were four "singles" and a couple, expecting to use all five main bedrooms. Slightly annoyingly, although we booked for 6 people, the owners left two bedrooms locked, so that we unexpectedly had to share. Maybe there was a miscommunication, but we felt somewhat bilked on this.

Overall this is a reasonable value apartment, with some obvious drawbacks that would have been clear from close scrutiny of the previous reviews.