Rio de Janeiro — Getting Started
blog (November 9, 2008)
Without a doubt, the Rio de Janeiro section of this Guide Site is going to be bulging with information about hotels, restaurants, shopping, and activities for day and night. I’ll be uploading a Carnival Planner, and much more.
But everything has to start somewhere, and I’ve begun with a review of the Hotel Florida, one of Rio’s mid-range hotels in a mid-city location between downtown historical Rio (to the north) and Copacabana and Ipanema (to the south). I like this hotel and remember it fondly as the first hotel I stayed in with my wife (then girlfriend) in Rio de Janeiro. I’ve also included a trip from Sao Paulo to Rio (or from Rio to Sao Paulo if you prefer) by car. This is something well worth doing if you’d like to see the two biggest cities in Brazil and everything in-between them.
