Hotel Praia Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro

Avenida Vieira Souto, 706, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 22420-000, Brazil (show on map)

Expert reviews

New York Times review:

“The clean, spare Praia Ipanema is as close as Rio hotels get to the beach, which is just across the road. All rooms have balconies and superior rooms have ocean views.”
Featured in New York Times’ 36 Hours in Rio de Janeiro.

Guest rating

This an aggregated customer review rating of Hotel Praia Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. We have taken customer review ratings from hotel booking sites, search engines, the official hotel website and other travel platforms. This is the average of all those ratings. We only list places that have a customer review rating of at least 4.0 out of 5.0

4.0 out of 5.0

Ranked 15th in Rio de Janeiro

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What guests liked

All you need to know

The Hotel Praia Ipanema is situated in one of Rio’s most famous districts. People plan their vacations to create memories here. The accommodation style of this hotel reflects the lifestyle of Ipanema. It is situated in Avenida Viera Souto. The city has excellent tourist places, and this hotel makes their stay even more astounding.

Here are some of the services of this hotel that makes the guests’ stay in Rio a memorable one.

Common services in all suites

Hotel Praia Ipanema gives a balcony view in each apartment. This hotel is entirely smoking-free, and you can also bring pets weighing up to 6 kg. There is a pool bar for guests to spend their leisure time. You get a free newsletter to your room every day. There are a steam room and beach service. Apart from all this, you get 24 hours of room service with free high-speed Wi-Fi. There is a fitness center for all the fitness enthusiast guests.

Rooms

Hotel Praia Ipanema has categorized its rooms into different styles, varying in their price and facilities. The room types include Standard, Partial and Complete Ocean View, Premium room, Rio Suite and Junior Suite. Every room is different from one another, but some things like Television, balconies, bathroom amenities and much more remain common in all rooms.

Services for Events

If you have an event lined up in Rio such as private meetings, anniversaries, or birthdays, then the hotel has that facility. You will get all the services included in the event package. You get the foodservice, audio system, microphone, television, projector, Wi-Fi and everything else that is essential.

 

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Location

Recent guest reviews

3.5

Estefania

8 July 2022

Pleasant

it’s well located, the wet sauna is perfectly clean, and the pool has amazing views to Ipanema beach

There were lorries working in the beach during the night, so I couldn’t sleep.

4.5

Globalcarioca

6 July 2022

Fabulous

The beachfront location is priceless! Beach service (chairs and parasol) is very handy. Breakfast is tasty and plentiful. Staff are super friendly and helpful.

The room itself has seen better days. The bed linens were rough. Not a room made for lounging, but it wasn't really an issue. The beachfront view was spectacular. It was fun to hang out listening to the sounds of the beach and urban life.

4.0

Ben

2 July 2022

Very good

The location including the view from the infinity pool at the top of the hotel was excellent!!

Room décor a little plain and dated for the prince of the hotel, although it was clean and had good A/C

3.5

Stephanie

7 June 2022

Great location, nice staff, not for light sleepers

Location is fantastic (the beach, the sunset) providing you don't mind some noise. Staff were lovely. Bed was comfy.

I was on the first floor and there was a great deal of noise from the park next door and the road especially on weekend nights. Very hard to sleep.

4.5

Moises

29 May 2022

If I’ll be able to return to Rio I’ try to find. room in your hotel

I’m your very old clients. I’m now living in Israel and when I come to visit my family in Rio I always choose your hotel to stay specially after the improvements. Thank you for your kind reception. Moisés Fuks

The location and clinliness

4.5

Sweeney

24 May 2022

Very enjoyable

This hotel is ideally located just across the road from the beach. Nice restaurants and supermarkets nearby. The staff in reception were very helpful and spoke English which made life easy for us. Breakfast was very satisfactory with lots of choices offered.

I don’t know if this is a problem with the hotel’s credit card technology or not but my MasterCard credit card was declined by the system even though it had been preloaded with money. Fortunately I was travelling with family who could pay my bill. My MasterCard provider assures me that the problem was not caused by MasterCard. So perhaps future travellers should make sure they have more than one method of payment with them. Perhaps the hotel could check this out as it could cause serious problems for future travellers. My family members were using Visa and Revolut which were accepted.

4.5

Sonia

17 May 2022

Fabulous

The room was oceanfront and the location was excellent as we wanted to be close to Leblon

Because there was little room availability during the Carnaval days, the price of the room was very high and did not match the level of the room accommodations.

3.5

Adriano

19 April 2022

super service and location, professional personnel, rooms only partially renovated

the position on Ipanema’s beach is unbeatable, in the best spot, bar none, walking distance from the best restaurants

the bathroom and bed matrasse, both very old

4.0

Benjamin

6 April 2022

Incredible view of Ipanema beach, but hotel needs repairing.

The view which we paid extra for was incredible. Stay as high up as possible to avoid the traffic noise. This end of the beach is quite quiet and you can hear the sea. The staff were really good! Very welcoming and helpful. The breakfast is a buffet and huge. Decent.

It is in need of repair. 3 plug sockets didn't work, so had to use just one which was halfway up the wall by the door. There was a big hole in the glass window with cardboard to repair it. The balcony is tiny and no furniture there to sit and have a drink. Bathroom door was broken. Wifi was bad Toilet broke A lot of money considering the state of repair that's needed.

4.0

Janaina

4 April 2022

it has been really nice as usual.

the staff of friendly, breakfast is really great and the location is absolutely fantastic.

it’s not really about the hotel, but how people behave in the pool area. specially parents letting their kids do as they might, not paying attention to the fact others might also want to use the pool.

4.0

Jessica

3 April 2022

staff were great and friendly. would recommend.

location

needs more outlets

4.0

Michelle

31 March 2022

Very good

great location close to the beach and walking distance to great restaurants. staff were also very helpful

the pool facilities were amazing and clean. the room was clean though the bathroom was a little rundown/old but definitely not a reason to not stay here again. particularly compared to other hotels in the area.

4.5

Georgios

28 March 2022

Fabulous

Great location at a part of the beach that was not over-crowded. Really amazing view.

It needs some renovation. Wifi was okay.

3.5

William

12 March 2022

We make ourselves look as good as possible for photographs, so does Praia Ipanema, but the reality is not so grand.

Praia had a room ready to check in at an early time after a long overnight flight, at no charge, which was greatly appreciated! The location is great, the bed was comfortable, and the breakfast was nice.

Staff had difficulty deducting min-bar and room service purchases from deposit and returning the balance. However, four days after check-out, the issue was correctly solved. The pool area is tiny with stained cushions and old furniture; took one look and immediately left the pool area.

4.5

Leo

11 March 2022

Fabulous

Amazing location, very helpful and friendly staff, and great amenities (pool and beach service)

3.5

Matt

1 March 2022

great views and location but down to there if you need WiFi for anything important like work.

good location and nice pool.

I’ve never wrote a bad review in my life but the WiFi was terrible. You would think for $2,000R a night the WiFi would work. I needed it for work but it doesn’t stay connected in the room longer that 2 minutes and needed it for work. Plus I had no interest in staying down in the lobby and hanging out with the staff just so I could get service. I asked the guy at the front desk to go take a look at it to see if there was anything he could do. he took his laptop up there and connected to it and was back down in less than 5 minutes and said nothing about it upon my return. I have stayed in hostels with better WiFi. really unfortunate.

4.5

Nina

18 February 2022

Overall my stay at Praia Ipanema was great for the value! I would definitely consider going back

All of the staff were very kind and attentive. The upstairs pool was lovely with a great view, food was pretty good overall and the value was incredible for being right on the beach of Ipanema.

The bathroom in my room did not have a tub and the upstairs seating by the pool could be formatted better/ have more umbrellas

4.0

Estela

10 February 2022

We had a good stay there, the first night, we stayed at one of the rooms with a connection door and we couldn’t sleep. N

The location is perfect. View from the pool is amazing.

Some rooms have a connection door (but it’s always locked) to the other room and if your neighbors are not so quiet, that could be annoying.

4.5

Andre

10 February 2022

Offers ocean view for a good price.

Opening the balcony door and hear the ocean is priceless. I definitely recommend paying for a superior room as they will be refurbished. Some reviews above mention tired looking rooms but mine was perfect. I couldn’t check in early which is understandable but I appreciated the receptionist’s offer to WhatsApp me when room was ready. I’ve never been offered that in a hotel before.

Nothing really. I usually prefer staying closer to the gay bars in Ipanema but it was a short stay so I didn’t mind.

4.5

Stefanie

8 February 2022

Excellent experience, we will most probably come again next year.

Breakfast bife was excellent, a lot of different options and a very helpful staff.

The cashier or a manager at the 16th floor should not send waiters to follow the hotel guests to their rooms in order to pay for a drink that was previously bought at the pool on the top of the hotel. The receipt for the drink should be given to a guest and put on the tab of the hotel guest, who can pay for it later at the reception or in the restaurant if not having the money immediatelly at the pool.

3.5

Julia

26 January 2022

great location and views, but rooms need a design touch

location rooftop pool breakfast

the rooms need a renovation, as it’s design is too simple and outdated for the location.

4.0

Beatriz

19 January 2022

really good, but need improvement

It’s very pretty, the view is amazing

the furniture looked a little bit old comparing to the other ones, and the balcony really dangerous, specially staying on a higher floor.

4.0

Gonzalo

18 January 2022

Good value for money: mantention of bathrooms may be better.

Simple but good. Nice breakfast. Personnel very helpful and kind.

Bathrooms might be updated.

4.5

Vidal

4 January 2022

Awesome!

Great location, views, and pool. I spent an unforgettable time in Rio while visiting friends and family.

4.0

Bhagwant

18 December 2021

Very good

The location excellent. Staff very helpful. Nice beach area. Pool area great to relax.

Room decor could be improved

Hotel facilities

Food & Drink

  • - Restaurant
  • - Bar
  • - Snack bar
  • - Special diet menus (on request)
  • - Kid meals (additional charge)
  • - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
  • - Fruits (additional charge)
  • - Coffee house on site

General

  • - Room service
  • - Non-smoking rooms
  • - Facilities for disabled guests
  • - Family rooms
  • - Lift
  • - Safety deposit box (additional charge)
  • - Non-smoking throughout
  • - Air conditioning
  • - Pet basket
  • - Pet bowls

Business facilities

  • - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
  • - Business centre (additional charge)

Reception services

  • - 24-hour front desk
  • - Luggage storage
  • - ATM/cash machine on site
  • - Concierge service

Activities

  • - Sauna
  • - Solarium
  • - Beachfront
  • - Steam room
  • - Fitness
  • - Beach
  • - Happy hour (additional charge)

Cleaning services

  • - Laundry (additional charge)
  • - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
  • - Ironing service (additional charge)
  • - Daily housekeeping

Outdoors

  • - Outdoor pool
  • - Sun terrace
  • - Outdoor furniture

Accessibility

  • - Wheelchair accessible
  • - Toilet with grab rails
  • - Higher level toilet
  • - Lower bathroom sink

Pool and wellness

  • - Infinity pool
  • - Pool with view
  • - Sun loungers or beach chairs
  • - Sun umbrellas
  • - Swimming pool
  • - Swimming Pool

Miscellaneous

  • - 24-hour security
  • - Key card access
  • - Security alarm
  • - Smoke alarms
  • - CCTV in common areas
  • - CCTV outside property
  • - Fire extinguishers
  • - Face masks for guests available
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