Hotel Atlântico Rio

Property is in a great location. Short walk from the beach. The rooms are clean and the breakfast is good. My family are vegetarian and we struggled at breakfast as there is ‘hidden’ meat in so much of the choices but if your happy with fruit, bread rolls, cake and yoghurt, you’ll be fine. The shower and air con in the bedroom was excellent. The hotel is right next to the metro which was so useful. Free WiFi

The property is a tower block (like a lot of the hotels in Rio) so the only rooms which have a window that have any light and look out into the street are at the front, and as you can imagine, there aren’t many to go round. Our room was an internal room On the 12th floor of 18, with a small window but the window opened up to the central courtyard so it was always dark in our room and the outlook was just a dirty wall. The hotel can be very noisy and our room was directly opposite the lift so all day and night, you hear people arriving to the floor and leaving and there is banging and shouting all the time from other visitors. The staff are quite unfriendly and not helpful at all. This could be because they are unable to communicate in English but I found this quite strange as I have travelled all over the world and despite occasionally struggling, we have managed somehow to communicate but not in this hotel, we didn’t come across anybody who could help us and when it came to check in and check out, they weren’t able to explain what to do! This is the reason we couldn’t report the noises and problems as nobody would have understood. It’s not 4 star as you would expect. The lobby and is lovely but the rooms are basic with no tea/coffee making facilities. We took our own kettle and if you like a good cup of tea, make sure you bring your own teabags from home and the tea in Rio is just awful. The pool area was a nice added extra but is a bit tatty and could do with a spruce up. It’s also very small so my children could only use if no others were in it. For us personally, we would probably hire an self contained apartment on Copacabana Beach if we were to go again. We were there for 12 days and the room was just too claustrophobic with no outside view and circulated air.