Everest vs. Sol
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 11/25/04
Stayed at both Everest Rio and Sol Ipanema in Oct/Nov 2004. Both were good, clean hotels with good staff, nice, safe locations on Ipanema, good breakfasts. My stay in both was planned so to be on different beach sections. Everest is a block back, bigger with more amenities like beach service, beautiful breakfast room, Sushi restaurant. Sol is as close as you can get, smaller, and just an ever so slight nod in favor of its rooms and baths. Pretty much a dead heat and a personal taste thing. I'd stay in either again. Go with ocean front room for obvious reasons. Used Ipanema.com to book and no problems there. Finally, imo, the crime problems are way overstated as far as Ipanema is concerned.