Stayed in Rio for Carnaval week. The apartment is very central, and beside a grocery/liquor store and McDonald's which is perfect on those hungover days. The security was amazing at this apartment- there is always someone sitting there watching the cameras and waiting to buzz us in or out; a couple times our security man stopped us from walking into a couple of heated arguments on the street, so very thankful for that. The apartment was clean and had fresh towels and sheets. One thing I didn't know about was they don't give extra toilet paper, garbage bags or any salt, pepper, sugar or anything like that for the kitchen. Also once we got there Marco had informed us about an extra electricity cost we had to pay at the end of our stay. It wasn't stated on the ad and we were only told a week or so prior to our stay - regardless, it only came to 300 reals for the whole week which was only 50 reals extra a girl and in the grand scheme of things not a pocket cruncher. Marco was very helpful throughout our stay. He kept in touch with me, got back to my emails regularly, usually within the day, greeted us at the front when we arrived and said good bye when we left. The only thing I could say was maybe learn a bit of English; since he doesn't speak it he had to use google translator, which wasn't super terrible but would have been nice to be able to talk with him in person. All in all great stay for Carnaval week- 6 white girls from Canada came to represent!