I can highly recommend Karen's apartment! We recently used it as our home base for enjoying a 9 day holiday in Rio and it was perfect for our needs! The location couldn't be better...a couple blocks from Ipanema Beach, a short walk to Copacabana and easy to get by taxi to all the places we wanted to go! The apartment is located on a short quiet street very close to grocery stores, lots of restaurants, a pharmacy and everything we needed.

The apartment is nicely laid out with basics in the kitchen and a variety of sleeping options (single trundle bed in one bedroom, double bed and single trundle in the second bedroom and a chair that folds flat to make a single sleeping mattress in the office). Not sure that the lower mattresses would be comfortable in the trundle beds, but they do provide another option...perhaps for a child. In addition to the spacious bathroom, it was convenient to have a very small room with a toilet and wall shower off the laundry room! We were pleased that the wi-fi worked very well!!

If weekly cleaning had been an option or included as in some Airbnb places, we would have been happy to have that option; however, cleaning out the fridge on arrival/departure and keeping the ceramic tile floors clean was not a problem with our group sharing the tasks.

Unfortunately, we didn't get to meet Karen or her agent in person; however, Daniel left the key with the doorman, made sure we had the code for wi-fi before we arrived and was available by phone if we had needed him. We had no problems so we really didn't need to contact him except to let him know we had arrived and to check with him about check out procedures. Karen impressed me as being a person of integrity in the way she quickly and fairly resolved an unfortunate booking issue.

Many thanks to Karen for sharing her wonderful Ipanema Beach home with us!!! We have lots of wonderful memories of our holiday and hope that someday we will get to return!!!