Good location in Ipanema about a 5-10 minute walk from the beach and also a lot of shops and restaurants. Self check-in is always great in my opinion and flexible. It could have been a little smoother in terms of getting the doorman the information he needed ahead of time. Had to fumble through some Portuguese (I speak none) to register my name and documents for access but it didn’t take too long. The apartment is nice and as pictured. Shower could get hotter and have better water pressure but it was still good, that’s a fairly minor thing. One con is that although on the seventh floor there is a bar or restaurant across the street on ground level so even with the window closed there is a bit of that ambient noise into the night. There was also some kind of drilling or construction going on inside the building that was a little annoying to wake up to and hear intermittently throughout the day.