Great place to stay in Ipanema. Convenient to beach, subway and Starbucks. There's a great bakery right downstairs to get coffee. Apartment was clean and comfortable. A/C in bedrooms worked great and wifi was good for what we needed it for. Only thing I'd tell others to be prepared for (and this is not unique to the apartment itself) is that if you're from the USA you need to have adapters that have just two prongs (like in Europe). The plugs in the apartment don't accept the newer 3-prong plugs and you can only buy 3 to 2 adapters from street vendors. Had the same thing at my hotel in another part of Brazil. Only one of the 3 places I stayed had the newer plugs. The apartment had an adaptor that we could use and we made it work but I'd just come prepared if you need to plug more than one device in at a time.