Future travellers be advised, this has been an extremely terrible experience.
To start with I need to establish that the house is very conveniently located and that it was kept very clean. Very few properties can do wrong with these two boxes checked. But this place was operated in the most horrendous manner in all other ways.
The host is responsive yet extremely verbally abusive. Minor errors would lead to an a thousand word email with extremely unpleasant scolding. It ruined my day completely on the first day because I was ‘caught’ trying to bring a friend of mine into the house. In the days that followed, he did this again and again, using reprimand of the gravest extent to abuse me verbally which have completely destroyed any pleasure that I would have being conveniently located right next to Ipanema.
The room is also essentially uninhabitable with no window or air conditioning. It is a prison cell. No self-respecting person should book this room. It is way worse than how it looks on the picture. The air gets so stuffy and hot during the night, I couldn’t really sleep well during my stay.
Lastly, you cannot bring any friend into the compound which is extremely inconvenient for anyone having a holiday in Rio, which defeats the whole purpose of staying in a guesthouse of any kind.
To be fair, the room was extremely cheap and conveniently located. But, all in all, you should avoid this property at all cost.
I rarely give negative reviews of any kind. But my trip has been completely and utterly ruined because of my stay at this house. I was verbally abused, inconvenienced to an extreme extent and had zero quality of life in this prison cell. I felt lucky when I had to leave Rio because I do not have to stay there anymore which is not a feeling that anyone should have given what an amazing city Rio is.
I don’t know how unbiased I am in this review but this is in all accounts a fair review of this property and most importantly the hosts.