For our hotel during Carnival, we have chosen a four star hotel on Copacabana beach, the Granville Oro Verde Hotel. Located only one block from the Copacabana Palace hotel and facing the beach, it offers convenience for a good deal less than the Copacabana Palace. All hotels in Rio have a Carnival package. The minimum stay is four nights, and prices are generally three times the normal price. And the hotels are all sold out.
Several groups play in different parts of the club.
All are excellent and it is easy to see why Cariocas stay up until all hours at jazz clubs thoughout the city. At 3AM, we reluctantly leave to go back to the hotel. Understandably, the city wakens slowly. Rio is a city of walkers and joggers and on weekends and holidays half of the boulevard in front of the beach is closed to traffic. Young and old, walk, ride bicycles, walk dogs or just sit on benches and chat.