I'm travelling around Brazil for 6 months on my own and came back to Rio to meet my friend from London for 10 days for carnival Rafael's home was a fantastic surprise I was not expecting to be so nice really great feel to his home really made are stay amazing! The apartment is in a really good location there are some good places to eat near by the beach is 3 mins down the road Ipanema beach is 10 min walk which is better and the metro is very close. Can't say a bad thing about it really great place!!! Rafael left us some food in the fridge which was a very nice of him some snacks biscuits, juice, etc, he gave me loads of advice on the area and carnival always got back to me very quickly! I can't recommend Rafael and his apartment more. And value for money for that time of year was amazing! 10 out of 10!!