The flat was clean and had everything we could need in terms of AC and kitchen equiptment, netflixs, wifi. It was safe with a 24/7 door man supervising the front gate. Clean towels and spare pillows in the wardrobes. Big windows throughly but with good blackout curtains and net curtains in all the bedrooms.
The flat was located in a safe and upmarket area. With smart bars and restaurants and Ipanema beach all very close by. The large supermarkets next door was very convenient for supplies and with a reasonable cafe for breakfast and pizza.
Although we didn't meet Victor (the host) he was very helpful via Whatsapp for messaging and calls providing plenty of useful information, responding to requests, being very flexible about arrival and check-out times.
The flat was on the 5th floor with 2 x 3 person lifts for access (and stairs). The twin room and one of the double rooms faced onto the main street so you could hear street noises but this didn't disturb our sleep or enjoyment of the flat at all. Similarly there were sometimes sounds from a large construction project going on across the road on a 2nd story but this was not a issue.
There was a minor issue with the washing machine requiring the plastic attachment to the glass lid (which had come loose) being put in the right position to get it to work but then worked fine once we knew. Victor said he was planning to replace this machine.
The only issue we had was we only got one of the 2 showers to go hot. The trick was to keeping the pressure low but not too low (although this was a problem in accommodation in Ilha Grande too). On the final day we couldn't get it to go hot at all and had to have cold showers. We made do and didn't report this to Victor so there might have been a simple solution if we had asked. Also switching on 1 shower triggered the 2nd shower to go on which was unusual.
Overall this was an good flat and we were happy with it. Thank you Victor