those looking for standard accommodation, visitors usually either opt for the privacy, cleanliness and hospitality that a hotel offers, or the pleasant comeliness of a rented apartment.

there are a number of agreeable and inexpensive hotel options dotted around the city, in tactically selected locations where housing is significantly cheaper - the  centre of the city, and the districts that surround it, such catete, flamengo, and lapa - these tend to offer clean, well-groomed suites, equipped with television and wi-fi.