This may happen for several reasons. It is our policy to recommend only the hotels and flats that we have already visited. Maybe we simply haven't visited yet the property you were thinking about. You are welcome to suggest or ask questions like this at the reservation form. Obviously the features vary a lot from hotel to hotel, and the details are in our insider's reviews .
Some basics are always there, though.
All hotels we work with offer air-conditioned rooms, a must in Rio. TV's always offer the open channels in Portuguese. Most properties today also give free access to cable channels including 24-hour news and movie channels in English and other languages. Some systems feature as many as 50 channels. There's always a fee for using your hotel phone.