My husband and I enjoyed our stay in January, 2015. The location of the hotel is great for being able to walk to many of the city's sights. The restaurant was lovely and the buffet breakfast was very nice. The rooms are quite basic, but nice and clean. Unfortunately, the air-conditioning unit was very noisy and not able to be regulated, so that didn't work out very well for us. We took the bus to Petropolis from Rio and then a cab to the hotel,but on the way back to the bus depot, we took a city bus and that worked out very well.