Rio's Presidente Hotel

“Old but Great”

In the center of Rio de Janeiro. Lovely experience. An extraordinary team. Room well maintained. If I come back to Rio de Janeiro, I will choose this same hotel again. Good luck to this wonderful team!

“Good value and location”

We stayed for a night prior to our taking a cruise. It is fairly close to cruise to the terminal (not a walking distance). One can take a metro or bus from here. This is an older hotel but still well maintained. The elevators are old and restaurant areas show age. The air conditioning was good ... more

We stayed for a night prior to our taking a cruise. It is fairly close to cruise to the terminal (not a walking distance). One can take a metro or bus from here. This is an older hotel but still well maintained. The elevators are old and restaurant areas show age. The air conditioning was good and so was the breakfast buffet. The TV was good and it is close to a plaza and a pedestrian drag with good restaurants. We were cautioned but nothing untowards happened to us. We walked around with restaurant patios extending on to streets. It was quiet on Sunday morning we walked to some churches and older buildings and construction/renovations going on. In Rio, people over 65 can use the local transportation for free. The modern train to the port area was great with a lot of security.

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“A good location during Carnaval only.”

Stayed in February 2017. First, my husband booked this hotel using his miles so it was free for us for 4-nights. However, we only checked the website and not Tripadvisor anymore. From their website it really looks fabulous, in reality it's just average, perhaps like a 3-star hotel only. The roo... more

Stayed in February 2017. First, my husband booked this hotel using his miles so it was free for us for 4-nights. However, we only checked the website and not Tripadvisor anymore. From their website it really looks fabulous, in reality it's just average, perhaps like a 3-star hotel only. The room is basic yet clean, The breakfast is just okay, not so much choices. The only good thing about our stay here is it was the Carnaval week, so the blocos are just always around the corner and we don't really need to go anywhere! We also feel that the blocos in this area have mostly locals than tourists in Copacobana or Ipanema areas. You can also walk towards Sambadrome that we just wasted the ticket we bought for the bus services going and leaving Sambadrome. It is fairly safe to walk because a lot of people are doing it and police cars are everywhere. It was a good stay for us perhaps because of the blocos experience we had.

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“Greatly Improved”

I stayed here for nearly two weeks, late June / Early July 2016 in room 1303. The refurbishment of the hotel seems to be nearly complete, it looked as if floor 5 and below were still unchanged. My room was absolutely fine. The bed was firm (how I like it) and the small wardrobe had a safe in it.... more

I stayed here for nearly two weeks, late June / Early July 2016 in room 1303. The refurbishment of the hotel seems to be nearly complete, it looked as if floor 5 and below were still unchanged. My room was absolutely fine. The bed was firm (how I like it) and the small wardrobe had a safe in it. The bathroom and sanitary-ware were all up to standard. Sometimes it took a little while for hot water to reach me in the evenings and I did have a couple of cold showers. This was not much of an issue to me (‘cos I’m tough like that, innit). The air conditioning unit was effective. The wi-fi in the room was good enough for email and browsing, I don't know if there was any cost to this as it would have been taken care of for me. I can recall only three slight issues that I had with the room: The opaque glass door of the bathroom let the morning light flood in, this room being one of the few with a bathroom window. I found that I could hang the runner that was across the bottom of the bed on to the door and block most of the light and this helped enormously. The room featured a minibar fridge, I had to unplug it though to cut down the noise. Unfortunately noise does travel in this hotel. All of those lovely hard surfaces in the corridors really do throw any sound all the way to the end. Some of my colleagues did have to change room to get further away from the ever-chiming lifts. You can still hear the lifts at the far end of the corridor though. The breakfast was good with enough variety and variation. The roof terrace shows promise. The bar looked to be very recently built and was not yet functional. There is a small pool and sun terrace which are very pleasant. There is also a gym and a sauna, I did not use either of these. All of the staff who I dealt with were helpful and polite. Previous posters had said that the hotel is in a dodgy area. This is not the case. Centro is an urban area in a city not without problems, you should always keep your wits about you. There were a few times when I was out by myself after dark - it’s really not that scary. The local square had a couple of fiestas while I was there and some might find the night-life of the area appealing. I cannot comment upon the cost of the room as that was taken care of by the company I was working for. Given a quiet room I would happily stay here again.

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