This apartment is exactly as described: beautiful, spacious and very well located right in the middle of Copacabana, near supermarkets, restaurants, stores, and gyms. The subway station is just a few minutes walk away, buses at the door also and Uber within a couple of minutes. It has the most beautiful views from any window. It’s quiet, for the most part, except on weekends when the bars downstairs are very noisy until the wee hours. We encountered some maintenance issues, especially the water, which was unreliable and had pressure problem at times, sometimes not coming and sometimes coming too strong and splashing water everywhere. We mentioned this to Pedro and he said it’d be taken care of — this was actually supposed to be done a couple of days before we checked out but the handyman didn’t show up. That and the need for some deep and thorough cleaning (some of the furniture had a lot of old dust on them, and pots and pans also showing signs of not having been well cleaned in a while) would be our only complaint. Despite that, overall we loved the place. Pedro is nice and a great and helpful host, and we’ll definitely stay there again when visiting Rio.