Rio 180 is a beautiful, extremely chic boutique. I can not rave about this place enough. (Honestly, we enjoyed our stay so much that when we returned to Rio for our return flight we changed our a reservation from an Ipanema hotel so that we could stay at Rio 180 again.) The rooms are all different, and while I glimpsed... more

We had booked to stay 4 nights at Rio 180 but left after just 1 night and alot of stress. IMPT PTS: THE HOTEL IS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR IPANEMA, COPACABANA OR LEBLON. Despite descriptions on various booking websites, it takes at least 25 minutes to get anywhere and even longer to get back because no taxi drivers can find it!!... more

We stayed in the Ipanema room. Very nice room, new, clean and with a good size. The swimming pool is nice. It is a boutique hotel with just 8 rooms, so you get plenty of privacy in a romantic atmosphere. The staff is nice, the view is beautiful and the location is good. We recommend this hotel if you want... more

I booked through the Splendia website to stay here for a long weekend. The place has a great setting in residential hills behind Santa Teresa. It would be a fair walk to the bars and restaurants but the taxi the receptionist called for me arrived very quickly and only charged the meter rate starting at the hotel. I arrived a... more

The location is beautiful. Great views. There are only a few rooms, so the hotel and the pool area are not crowded, sometimes even empty. It really feels like you own the place! The service made us feel even more at home. Polite, but not pretentious. The common areas and rooms are very tastefully furnished. The breakfast and snacks are... more

Rio 180 is up on the hillside in the Santa Tereza area. Rio stretches out below it and Mount Corcovado is just to the right. The view is great and you get beautiful photos from here. Yes it is a taxi ride down to Ipanema or to the other areas but it is a serene place to stay. You may... more

The hotel is pretty new so it is still work in progress and whoever visit it will (if open to it) feel part of creating a dream. The staff is lovely and invited us for drinks in cool Santa Theresa bars as well as to samba and baile funk parties so you really get a chance to see the real... more

I'm very surprised to read such a negative review below. We had a truly wonderful stay at the Rio 180 Hotel and would recommend it highly to anyone who doesn't want to stay in the centre of downtown Rio. Unfortunately our transfer from the airport never materialised either but a taxi to the hotel was cheap. The only negative is... more

Positive points: - views - rooms (design) Negative points: - Staff unprofessional (we had to ask 5 times to get bottles of water, one of them sent us in a dodgy/dangerous place saying that it was alright, wrong infos have been given, restaurants not booked, taxi not called on time etc..) - The transfer to pick us up from the... more