Sol Ipanema Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Good location, across from the beach, near the Girl from Ipanema Restaurant, staff great and helpful. Breakfast good. No issues or concerns at all. Value for money.

One of the best hotels I've stayed at. Great restaurant and awesome pool area. Great location!

From the moment I checked on to the moment I left, I was utterly disappointed with this hotel. My compliments to whoever tool the photos, but they are hardly true to real life. Although the rooms are a good size i felt they could have been appointed better. Additionally, although the hotel proudly features their nespresso machines in the pictures of their rooms, they fail to disclose that they charge you about $2 per capsule and no complimentary capsules. The pool is tiny and in my opinion should not qualify as a pool. The pool deck is also tiny with only three deck chairs and cramped with an additional two cafe tables and four chairs.... Wholly inadequate for a hotel of 90 guestrooms. There are also 15 floors and only two elevators with no service elevator... Meaning that in the mornings you can spend up to 10 minutes waiting for an elevator. But most disappointing was the service. The front desk was very unfriendly and unhelpful. I was first given a room with two double double beds. When I complained, the front desk dismissed my complaint saying they "upgraded my room anyway," but I had in fact booked and been confirmed a deluxe ocean view room with a king bed. Then upon checkout when I asked for a late checkout i was told they could not do it because they were fully booked, despite that hotels.com showed they had 3 of the same rooms still available. I know late.checkout is at discretion of the hotel, but if you don't want to do it don't lie about the reason

3 days in Rio. Hotel is within about 3 blocks from two different metro stations, very friendly staff, great view, nice comfortable bed, shower refreshing. Pool on top. One block from the club they wrote The girl from Ipanema song at. Great location lots to do and eat. Did I mention the staff speaks English and is very helpful. I don't know of anything they could have done to make this better. Obrigado.

Great beach front location