Windsor Excelsior Hotel

You can literally see everything from this hotel! Jesus, copacabana, sugarloaf! Beautiful views!!! Breakfast is lovely and plentiful. We went during carnival and it was busy but we had a lovely stay!!! Location is as good as you can get. We found the whole of the beach very safe. I had read reviews that a couple blocks down from the beach it gets rough but we didn't find this the case. People were friendly and carnival was incredible! Downside to the hotel was the lifts are SLOW, the pool is small (not really able to swim in it). The food on the copacabana is really pretty poor. We only found 1 good restaurant that served really good mexican. But all the little stands on the beach serve chips and not a lot else. Only a small part, but one a couple of the night, the top floor was rented out to a party who played Indian music all night in the middle of the carinval celebrations. We felt like was quite intrusive when eating on the bar at the top, and they didn't really seem to care about how loud they were. However in general I would give our stay a good 9/10. Food in the hotel is reasonable and the hotel is not dated and very nice!

The area doesn't really have any decent food places. the Indian celebrations on the top floor which were so loud we had to move from the pool on 2 occasions.

I thought the breakfast was excellent. The location was perfect being basically on Copacabana beach and situated towards one end, The staff were friendly and attentive, I liked that there was security standing at the front entrance so there was never any issues

I thought pool deck on the top floor could have been done better, It was very hot with little natural or man made shade and the tiles reflect a lot of heat. I did get severe sunburn from being up there. The bar/meals area adjacent could do with an upgrade as well. You have many more people having dinner or sunset drinks on this level if it was done well. The B Hotel in Brasilia has a fantastic roof top bar which could be replicated to some extent