In april 2014 we have wisited Rio and stayed at the Exelente apartamento em Copacobana.
It's a very convinient location - few minutes to Copacobana beach - and not to far from Ipanema. There are bus stop, supermarket and a cafeteria (and fresh juices as well) next to the appartment building - all that things make that location even more convinient. Extremly friendly concierge protects peace of the appartment building at any time of the day or night and all the neighborhoods we had met were very friendly as well.
All the things that tourist may need exist in that appartment - kitchen where we cooked breakfast, two bathrooms and washing mashing (which was a pleasant surprise).
Special thank we would like to say to Aleksandra and Thiago - appartment owners - they provided us with convinient conditions for vacations and with all the stuff that we could need - clean linen, towels and even few cans of Coke in a frige )