Hotel Atlantico Copacabana

The location - right opposite Siqueira Campos metro station and close to Copacabana beach and shops/restaurants etc. The staff were friendly enough, but worked in difficult surroundings. The small rooftop pool is a nice - and a welcome escape from the hotel itself!

The hotel is pretty dated and shabby. The reception lobby itself was dark and slightly depressing and was adorned by a lone ‘dead’ artificial plant that left an awful lot to be desired! The room was a big disappointment and bore little or no relation to the pictures on the website, and when I saw the poor quality of the threadbare bed linen and ‘grey’ towels I was instantly depressed. Not what you need after a long flight! In addition to all this, we had numerous problems with our door card key and, as it repeatedly failed to work, we were eventually moved to another (much better) room. Internet connections are poor and most guests convened in the main reception lobby where connections were much better. However, despite all this, the rates are pretty reasonable to stay in such a central location, but my advice is to spend a few more R$ and move on to something more modern!

Walking distance to the beach and coffee shops, bakeries and restaurants, stores and other businesses

The hotel is really old. There was only a few staff working on each shift so things were really slow when you needed. The house keeper never changed my bedding or the towels... there was no restaurant in the hotel and not sure about dine in room service but I don’t think... the area is also not that nice! Oh and WiFi is bad

Extremely outdated and noisy

Wifi was reliable and breakfast/location were OK - about a 5 minute walk to the beach in a pretty decent and well lit neighborhood.

For US travelers, this is very reminiscent of the highway motels you may have been to in the early 90s - cable TV on a faded CRT tube TV, weird controls for the lights, noisy wall air conditioning unit that sort-of worked and bathroom that's sketchy in every way possible - with a dripping shower to boot. Staff at checkin wasn't too interested in offering maps, directions, suggestions - felt very awkward having to pry some details out of them and all answers were one or two words. They were quite chatty about offering tours and doing currency exchange. At $250/night this is borderline criminal of an accommodation but they are cashing in on the Olympics.