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+55 11 93145-6050

We're around from 8am to 11pm. Outside those hours, if something urgent comes up, just ask at the front desk — it's staffed 24 hours.

Times

15h → 11h

Check-in from 3pm, check-out by 11am. Need a little extra time? Just ask and we'll sort it out if the calendar allows.

Someone from our team welcomes you in person when you first arrive, so let us know your arrival time in advance and we'll get everything ready.

The apartment has a digital lock, and we send you the code on the day of check-in.

The building asks for every guest to be registered, with ID, before arrival. Just send us the details.

The building doesn't allow visitors, so only the guests on the booking can come up.

There are two spaces. If you're driving, send us the plate and car model ahead of time and we'll clear it with the building.

The spaces aren't numbered — the doorman will point you to one. If the ground floor is full, no problem: the building has a car lift.

The main lift can't be used with luggage or by anyone coming back from the beach. For both, it's the service lift.

Coming back from the beach: stop at the foot wash at the back of the building, by the garage entrance, just past the service lift. Then take the service lift up. Small thing, and it keeps the building lovely.

• Shoes off at the door, please. It protects the floors from scratches and from whatever the street leaves behind.
• No smoking anywhere, balcony included.
• We don't host pets.
• Children are very welcome. Just keep an eye on the balcony — it has no safety netting, so it isn't the best spot for little ones on their own.
• Maximum of 4 people in the apartment.
• No visitors — that's a building rule: guests on the booking only.
• Quiet hours from 10pm to 8am. It's a very residential building and the neighbours appreciate it.

Dining table: it's solid wood, so please use the trivets for anything hot and watch out for wet glasses. For your convenience, we keep the table under a clear plastic cover.

Sofa and rug: sunscreen and tanning oil basically never come out of fabric. If you still have product on your skin, the balcony is the better place to relax.

White towels are for the bathroom. For the beach, use the beach towels we set aside — the white ones really do stain.

Make-up: a wipe does the job and saves the towels.

Balcony: hang towels as you like, just not over the railing. There's a folding rack and a ceiling line in the laundry room.

In the bathrooms: nothing goes in the toilet — no paper, no sanitary products, no condoms. It all goes in the little bin beside it. It may feel odd, but it's how it works all over Brazil.

Use the pans that live here: induction only works with a magnetic base, so a pan you bring along may simply not heat up.

If it won't switch on, it's almost always the lock. Hold the padlock for a few seconds and it releases.

And do turn the hood on whenever you cook there.

The Brastemp oven runs on gas with automatic ignition — no matches, just turn the dial. It sits in the tall unit, away from the hood, with the Brastemp microwave right above it.

The Midea fridge gives you filtered water and ice — drink it straight, no worries. Filtered water also comes from the smaller spout on the kitchen tap.

The Brastemp dishwasher takes 14 place settings. And the two-door wine fridge is under the island counter, ready for the evening.

Coffee, salt, olive oil, washing-up liquid and dishwasher powder. Enough for that first morning.

The bin drawer is in the kitchen counter on the left, already split into organic and recyclable.

To take it out, ride the service lift to the ground floor: the bin room is right opposite, with the same separation. Any time, any day — the doorman collects it later.

You get there through the fluted glass door in the kitchen.

11 kg washing, 7 kg drying. There's a 15-minute quick cycle for emergencies, a 49-minute full cycle and drying programmes.

Iron, folding drying rack, ceiling drying line, broom and cleaning products.

Fully automatic, nothing for you to switch on. It looks after the showers and taps in both bathrooms.

The fuse box, the main water stopcocks and the electricity meter are all in there too. Worth knowing where, just in case.

Every room has Midea air conditioning: the living area, which covers dining, lounge and kitchen, plus both bedrooms. Each room has its own remote, and they work on any of the units.

Two small things help a lot: close doors and windows while the AC is on, including the glass laundry door, and switch it off when you head out.

The living-room unit is seriously powerful — 23°C is usually more than enough. In the bedrooms we go for 19 or 20°C. But set it however you sleep best.

The apartment has a daily electricity allowance, worked out as an average across your stay rather than day by day, so one hot night is never a problem:

• 20 kWh a day, April to October
• 26 kWh a day, November to March

The allowance comes from the real consumption measured here and comfortably covers normal use by up to 4 people, with AC running overnight in both bedrooms. If the average goes over, the extra is R$ 1.50 per kWh.

The meter is in the laundry room and we photograph it at check-in and check-out. The idea is just to avoid AC running in an empty room or with a window open — in practice, we almost never have to charge anything.

King bed, its own bathroom, and a door straight onto the balcony — you can wake up and have your coffee outside without crossing the living room.

There's also a desk in the room, for whenever something needs sorting out without leaving the flat.

Two single beds that push together into a double. Feel free to join them, it takes a second.

Just ask and we'll arrange it with our housekeeper.

In the bathrooms, the left valve is hot water and the right one is cold.

The en-suite works a little differently: it's a single mixer. Turn it to set the temperature — left for hot, right for cold — and pull it gently to start the water.

We leave liquid soap, shampoo and conditioner, and there's a hairdryer in each bathroom.

The TV is a smart TV with plenty of free online channels, and you're welcome to sign in to your own streaming accounts. Just remember to log out before check-out.

The router is under the TV. If the internet stutters, restarting it usually does the trick. If it keeps up, give us a shout.

• Sockets are 110V throughout.
• Deliveries: couriers can't come up, so pop down and collect on the ground floor.
• Intercom: dial 94 and you're through to the front desk.
• Plants: the balcony ones are on automatic irrigation and look after themselves. The indoor ones, only if you're staying more than seven days — a light watering, once, if you remember. They'll thank you.
• If the water goes off: close the taps and stopcocks. Left open, the place can flood when it comes back. The building has a tank, so long outages are rare.
• If the power goes off: it usually comes back quickly, just sit tight. If it's only the apartment, take a look at the fuse box in the laundry room.

Two beaches

Ipanema and Copacabana are both seven minutes away, one in each direction. They're quite different, so try both. You can also walk to the Lagoa.

Our tip

Sunset from Pedra do Arpoador. It's just around the corner and it's one of those things you remember.

Beach chairs

We keep four here, but honestly, renting on the beach is easier and cheap: R$ 10 to R$ 20 a chair. If anyone asks for more, feel free to haggle.

Fátima's kiosk

Kiosk 27, on Ipanema beach. To find it, follow the kiosk numbers — it's very close to Posto 8, with a beautiful green and yellow staircase running down to the sand. Honest people, and a short walk from the apartment.

Nothing complicated, just a few things that help a lot:

• Leave the place roughly tidy, as a kindness to our housekeeper
• Put the dishes in the dishwasher. No need to run it — she starts it when she arrives
• Take the rubbish down, if you can
• Switch off the air conditioning units
• Log out of your streaming accounts on the TV
• Have a quick look at the electricity meter in the laundry room

Left something behind? Tell us as soon as you notice and we'll have a proper look. We hold on to things for about a month, depending on size — our storage here is tight.

From 8am to 11pm, message us on WhatsApp at +55 11 93145-6050. Outside those hours, the front desk is staffed 24 hours and can sort out a lot.

Ambulance 192 · Fire brigade 193

The main hospital nearby is Copa D'Or. And there are pharmacies everywhere, three or four minutes on foot.

The emergency stairs are in the entrance corridor on this floor.