Stay for the view. It’s amazing. The doormen are great. We felt very safe and secure. The place is located in a great neighborhood with lots of restaurants, grocery stores, and other retail stores. The beach is incredible and clean.
The house needs work. A bigger couch is needed if you’re staying longer than a few nights. Huge kitchen but not functional for cooking for a family of 4. Pots and pans are not good. It was a challenge to cook a meal. They don’t provide ANYTHING as far as garbage bags, soap, laundry detergent, spices or coffee. Sorry but for the price point a little bit of supplies would have helped us after traveling 20 hours! We are used to renting houses in America and we’ve never seen such lack of basic supplies for a stay. Beds are comfortable but not enough lamps and bedside tables for both sides of beds. Not enough hangers. No beach chairs provided. Come on! Seriously! We will be returning soon to Ipanema but it’s too hard to stay in this house.