Overall Celia’s apartment is great. It is in a wonderful location (1 block from Ipanema beach), with security, and has everything you need (bed, sofa, kitchen, bathroom, etc).
On future trips to Rio we definitely would consider staying here again if we could work with another property manager. Unfortunately when we checked out Celia tried to get us to pay an “electricity use” fee in cash, which we refused to do. We said we would be happy to be shown the policy in her listing and pay via AirBnB but she got argumentative about this and still has not directed us to the policy nor requested any money through AirBnB. (As an FYI, what she says the policy is: the guest is responsible for any use of electricity over 50 kW; while this seems unreasonable to us since we stayed for 10 nights we again would be happy to pay through the proper channels). She then proceeded to berate over messages, which we found unnecessary and unacceptable. I could write further about other difficult interactions with her but feel like this one embodies the overall issues well enough.
It’s unfortunate that a great listing can get ruined by a host like this, hopefully this issue gets resolved!