The apartment was okay. The host was very nice and very kind, easy to communicate with him. I asked for a towel and he gave me one.
The room was okay but unfortunately the mattress was max 5cm thick, so it means the bed was really hard.
The key for the room fits in every other room door. So take care of your valuables, because it’s not really safe if everyone else can enter your room with the same key. I stayed 10 days there and I’ve never saw a cleaning lady, at the end the garbage bin was exploding. I also saw 2 cockroaches, one in the kitchen and one in my room. All the utensils for cooking are very bad, you can’t cook a proper meal because all the pans and pots are very old and after 5 seconds it gets burned because there is no teflon on it. The area is okay, but you have to walk 20 min to the metro station. During the night could be very sketchy, a lot of homeless people bothering you.Also on the opposite side is the entrance to the favelas. I think there are nicer areas in Rio