We had a fantastic stay over New Year's Eve at Ilana's apartment, it was in a fantastic location for ipanema beach (around 100 metres away) with many amenities close by such as great shopping and restaurants. The apartment itself was perfect for our needs - very modern and bright, cool (temperature!), had all facilities we needed, extremely clean and secure. Ilana was the most helpful air Bnb host we've ever had the pleasure to meet, booking our meal for us on New Year's Eve and extremely prompt responses to any questions we had. Can't recommend highly enough.