I´m gonna start to say that we are two swedish girls who lived here for 16 days and in Sweden we have a high standard in living just to be sure you understand me you other swedes. For being Rio this SO great and enough. This what you get: a small studio with a mini kitchen on the 6th floor. We could actually see the sea from the window. It wasn´t perfectly clean but it´s not a hotel room. There´s both fans and AC to chooce between. It´s situated absolutely perfect on a very safe street. But it´s SO NOICY in Rio from the traffic so bring your earplugs. Every day we could choose weither we wanted to go to Ipanema or Copacabana. It´s wifi in the room and the concierge is very nice and helpful in case of questions. The host family answers very fast on all your questions and are very friendly.
Remember when you stay for a long time it gets dirty and you might need to clean the sheets and towels as we did.