Arena Ipanema Hotel

the Location is great, walking distance everywhere you want to go around Ipanema and Copacabana

Location is great, hotel is clean, nice amenities, great breakfast, staff very courteous (especially Leonardo who speaks Romanian and also perfect English).

The night staff at the reception desk was really just a filler. No service whatsoever. The day manager was terrific. They had problems handling the holiday crowd at the bar, which it seems they should have prepared for. But they didn't provide any credit or anything for over an hour wait for drinks. The upstairs rooftop was terrific with beautiful views, but the rooms are quite plain. We had an amazing Spanish meal at the hotel restaurant. So a little mixed, the managers were great but some of the rest of the service was confused and not very good

I like the breakfast with various selections of food. There was more than enough food if you wanted, a good way to get your day started. Tasted good too. The location was great. It's like two minutes walk from the beach and easy to travel anywhere from this location. It felt safe with 24/7 open reception and security.

The location and staff couldn't be better. Excellent breakfast with some different dishes every day. The view from the pool deck is wonderful with views from Leblon to Red (devil's) beach and right in front of Arpoador beach. We had a nice view of the park next to us that provides a short cut to Arpoador beach. All of the staff was helpful but in particular Cristiane Alexandre. She knew all the best options on how to get me to the Salgueiro Samba School practice and as a result I had an experience of a lifetime attending the high energy samba of my favorite Samba school! This is probably the safest version of this type of event as you have a shuttle or private car directly to the event and the event is not inside or nearby the slums. Moreover Salgueiro invites other samba schools regularly so you may get to see 2 if you're willing to stay later than 1AM. I also had the need of a plug adapter late on Saturday to do some remote work. Nothing was open to buy one but Cristiane was resourceful and though they didn't have one at the front desk she found someone that delivered me an adapter and I was able to meet my work deadline. Finally when Kiwi.com sent me an email telling me that our flight had been changed forward by 1 day (I received the email ~ 2h before my flight but didn't see it till 1h before the new flight time) she once again helped me locate the proper number to call of the airline (Kiwi never again) and I was able to get my original flight back. If you can stay at Arena Ipanema hotel do it. It's walking distance to many good bar/restaurants and fairly safe given the continued and very visible presence of police in the area (including mounted police in the park).