We stayed at Paloma's place during Carnaval for the whole week. Paloma as a host was wonderful - she was incredibly responsive, she allowed us to leave our bags a day or so before our checkin, and then moved them into the unit for when our stay started. She was great, and is an excellent host! The place itself is cute and charming - really nice old colonial place. It was, however, quite noisy. Its right in the heart of Santa Teresa, and during carnaval there were street parties outside of the house basically night and day. On one hand it was super lively, but on the other it was quite noisy. The place had pretty poor sound insulation, so you could hear a lot of what was happening outside and with the unit upstairs. The other thing with the area (and not just Paloma's place) is that its difficult to order Ubers to the area. They either won't accept the request, or they cancel on you. We didn't have problems with taxi's though.