Fabulous fabulous fabulous! Sandra and Vincent's apartment is gorgeous, set in the mountainside and a couple of minutes walk to the beach. The balcony is amazing and we spent a lot of time in the evenings after dinner sitting out drinking wine! The bedroom is air conditioned and they are installing AC in the rest of the apartment though we found it got a great breeze in and were fine without it. Great place to explore Copacabana and Ipanema on foot though it was super easy to get a taxi within a couple of streets and we took Vincent's recommendation and used the EasyTaxi app no problems. Vincent is extremely helpful, easily contactable and met us on arrival with a cold glass of Guava juice. Provided excellent recommendations for the local eateries, directions, and attractions. Definitely made our stay a lot easier given it was our first trip to Rio and our Portugese is non-existent. The apartment has a small equipped kitchen, coffee facilities etc and is cleaned every day, fresh towels every other day which we really appreciated. Really lovely hosts, extremely secure building, great location, totally loved the place and we will be back to Rio. Absolutely recommend Vincent and Sandra's apartment!