Excellent hotel
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 12/18/06
Plaza Copacabana is a very nice hotel. My wife and I spent a week there. It is clean, well organized and has a good location. The breakfast buffet is great, as are the helpful staff.
It is located 5 blocks from the Arco Verde metro station (a good way to get to the center quickly and inexpensively).
The room was nice, not a large US style room, but comfortable nonetheless. The bathroom is very good size, with a huge hower stall.
We rented bikes ($25/day) around the corner, and biked the designated bike trails in Rio - a nice, alternative way to see part of the city.
Make sure to ride the trolley car to Sta Theresa (departs from Carioca station, 3 blocks from the municipal theater).We bought a full size map of the streets of Rio which helped us very much in finding our way around Rio quickly.
A ferry ride to the other side of the bay was a nice outing as well.
For the money, one cannot beat this hotel.