RIO OTHON PALACE

We went to Othon hotel to try their famous restaurant. Food and service where great, we had such a nice family time there. The view is very beautiful up there. I recommend it, and totally return for a few more drinks and dinner!

Location of the hotel is just great. Copacabana, first line from the ocean. Short walking distance (few minutes) to Copacabana Fort, where you can drink one of the best coffee in the Rio. Excellent restaurants like boteco Belmonte just around the corner. Beautiful view of the ocean, Copacabana beach and SugarLoaf (full view from front located rooms, partial view from room on left or right side of the building. Excellent view from top roof restaurant and front view from 3rd floor restaurant when you can eat breakfast. Location, excellent sea view, swimming pool. access to the beach should make this hotel leading 5* in Rio but unfortunatelly details are against such a high valuation and hotel definitly needs renovation and improvement efforts to make it nicer not boring. 1. Information about rooms while booking are little misleading. Room named as "Sea view rooms" are de facto located on left or right side of the building, so by definition it is not full sea view but only partial, left or right side view. It is still nice sea view of "half" of the beach, but not full frontal view. 2. Hotel has perfect location, and officially 5* but in details it looks not so good. Examples: • There is swimming pool on the roof, but around him are tables and sunbeds so while in swimming poll you can hardly see any view outside, water on pictures is beautifully blue, but in reality it was dark grey, so no surprise there was no one inside. • Room was big enough with balcony, but once again a lot of details need to be improved: electric cables in bathroom had damaged isolation, red sign (warm water ) was just on wrong place where should be the cold one, rust around the tap ... • Brown-black reception looked like old airport check-in/check out desk, guests were waiting in quite long queues, in addition several suitcase were stored in unorganized way just nearby reception, that all made rather disappointing impression. • Only one existing ATM was “temporary” out of order for a few days. Hotel staff, even aware , did nothing with it. 3. If you use non- Brazilian credit card, you payment is automatically recalculated with additional several percent fee to currency of credit card, even if you want to pay in Brazilian Reals (that you are invoiced in). Receptionists just answer that “hotel has exactly such an agreement with credit card terminal operator and hotel has nothing to do with it”. 4. Breakfast: Each day restaurant was overcrowded, with the same regular food just to not being hungry, nothing special, nothing to remember, nothing personal, practically no possibility to order omelet or something else that you like.

We arrived quite late on the first night of our honeymoon after a very long flight, and were fairly annoyed to find we had been given a room with two single beds instead of the double we had very clearly requested. However, once we'd inspected the room and decided we were very annoyed, the staff sorted it out quickly. Daniel Dimoffros was the member of staff in particular, and we found him to be very friendly and helpful throughout our stay. The concierge was also great and helped organise a tour guide to take us round Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf. The location and rooftop bar are also fantastic - our only other small complaint was that the decor felt very faded in the room. With a refurbishment it would be spectacular.

Nice hotel across from Copacabana Beach. Service was good. Lobby comfortable. Rooms good sized and clean. Wireless access was good. Nothing bad to say about the accommodations. Would avoid the overpriced restaurant on top floor. Views nice but not worth the price and food was not very good.

Some feel the decor and building are dated, sorry it's well maintained despite its age. Remember you 're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy, this is Brazil. It's a great value with attentive personnel. The rooftop restaurant and pool are hard to beat.