Santa Teresa Romantic hotels in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Area is beautiful, great views, hotel has very nice grounds and the staff is attentive and helpful. It requires significant travel to many of Rios main attractions, use of private hotel car is more costly than easily available taxi. The rooms are definitely not five stars, comfortable but basic

Nice accommodation, very reasonably sized rooms, about 30 minute walk to some of the central locations. Staff very helpful and willing to provide advice on onward journey, flights, book taxis, provide directions, etc.

We stayed in one of the suites with a private terrace for a couple of days and enjoyed it very much. The view really is unbeatable, specially at dawn! Our room was nicely designed and beautiful, but perhaps not the most practical. Our A/C was struggling when it was 35 C outside. The sliding doors didn't really slide very well and the lack of a door to the bathroom (by design) felt a bit awkward to us, a couple with a child (10 years old). We had an extra bed in our room for our son, which worked fine, but this really is a couples' place. Stairs are steep so not suitable for smaller children.

We stayed here for one night over carnaval and were able to walk to and from the sambadrome (and felt safe) The staff were fantastic, so lovely, friendly and welcoming, it was like going to stay with family!! The building itself is quite unusual as it's an old colonial building and you enter via a tunnel and old school elevator. The rooms were clean and tidy and had been decorated well, but obviously as this is an old building, we were able to hear people in the next room very clearly and also people walking about in the room above us. However, the bed was really comfortable and a great shower. We ordered room service, which I wouldn't recommend. We had panninis and they were really dry and resembled the food we had got on the plane. Breakfast wasn't included in the rate and based on the food we had, we didn't think it was worth it. The pool was clean and the garden area was lovely. And the seating areas in the reception were comfortable. I would recommend this place, but maybe not the best for light sleepers

We had a room for 4 and it was very nice and spacious, we were very happy about the room. Staff were great.,