I stayed at Dejanira's wonderful apartment with a great windows view to the cathedral and other buildings for 4 days and enjoyed myself to the fullest.
The room is very spacious, clean, nicely decorated and fully equipped with everything someone might need.
The location is very center in Lapa, for every sightseeing like Santa Teresa and all the other attractions located in the Center.
To enjoy the nigh-out with Samba music and have fun is Lapa perfect and therefore it could be loud until late night, but I knew it and enjoyed it personally.
Restaurants, shops, bars and all other facilities like taxi, metro are reachable with in a waking distance of couple of minutes.
Dejanira is a great host, she welcomed me with drinks, Brazilian sweets and snacks.
I highly recommend this place and we will definitely come back sometime soon in the future.