Novotel Rio de Janeiro Leme

Conveniently located close to Copacabana. Facilities were disappointing and bedroom was tired. The minibar smelled of mold. The bathroom towels were very thin. The room was very noisy, as there is basically no sound insulation form the corridor. The bed is comfortable and the A/C worked well. ||A big problem is the elevator situation. There are two main elevators which are slow and small. This is a 20-story and 400-room hotel, which means you will wait. There are two additional elevators, but they are somewhat "hidden". ||Front desk was nice and helpful, but check-in took very long. Service at the rooftop bar was unfriendly and generally disinterested in doing their job.||If I return to Rio, I will look for a different hotel with better value for money.

The hotel is well located one street back from the beach. The rooms are clean and quite basic - nothing special. There was a one metre gap between the bed and the fixed to the wall “bedside” table with reading light on both sides so it’s impossible to actually use. Breakfast is very good with a large variety of items available but like all other spaces in the hotel gets very busy as the space is not big enough for the size of the hotel. The rooftop bar and pool area has great views but gets very busy! People from outside the hotel come in to use it and this is not monitored at all. The poolside chairs & lounges get ‘held’ by selfish people and unfortunately this isn’t monitored by hotel staff either. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Rio but would not stay at this hotel again.

Great place place to stay with family. Friendly and helpful staff. Breakfast is a must add… they have an entire buffet and you can ask to order your own omelette style, eggs,waffles and more. Pool environment was safe with lifeguard, towels and amazing views. Adults can enjoy full bar while kids have fun at pool. Close to most attractions. There are grocery stores , pharmacies , shops and restaurants nearby. The hotel is close to Copacabana/Leme beach, 100 feet away. Depending on the table you choose for breakfast you can enjoy a sea view. We had ocean view from our room too. I would definitely recommend it.

The breakfast buffet was excellent. We stayed for 6 nights and every morning the options were different. The fruit selection was vast and Denise at the breakfast buffet was very helpful. We had Christmas Eve dinner at the hotel and the food was excellent. They had a live music performance that was the cherry on the cake. The only issue is that all drinks including water counted towards your allotment (of one drink included on the meal package) and if you wanted more than one water, you had to pay extra. Our stay was very pleasant and the rooftop pool was nice and the view of the beach was amazing. I would come back.

Giovanna, the server at the rooftop bar, was so wonderful and helpful. She helped me to order drinks and food. She made sure I was always well taken care of. She has made this a great experience! |Alex, the bartender, made excellent drinks. Highly recommended Sky Leme! The view is spectacular and the staff is incredible.

Had some drinks and food on the rooftop, excellent and the staff are 10/10. Would make it my go to place for a beer in Rio, amazing view over the beach and a lovely breeze so not to hot if your heat sensitive. Priced very very reasonable also! Top marks all round .

We booked this hotel in Nov at an inflated price of $1500 USD for 4 nights assuming there'd be rooftop access on NYE since the hotel website didn't call out a ticketed event for that night. When we arrived, the staff told us it was in fact a ticketed event for an additional $300 USD. Perhaps our oversight but we scowered the website before booking at such a high price and it wasn't there. The manager was very helpful in accommodating a cancellation if needed, ultimately we were too tired to pack and unpack again and waste another day in transit so we stayed and bought the tickets. Check in is 2pm. We arrived at 1pm and they said they had a room for us. It wasn't ready so we went to the pool where again, service was wonderful. Front desk gave us a tour of 2 rooms to choose from which was great, but then msgd me and said they'd have a diff room ready at 2:30. We went down at 3pm and the room changed yet again and the new room still wasn't ready. We got a room with no apologies at 4pm. The room was standard. Strong cleaning smell but decent. The shower hose didn't stay in place. The shower drain did not work at all - we had to kick the water to the corner each time for it to drain or pools of water stayed until the next day. The sink also didn't drain. The toilet stopped flushing. We had a plate with one chocolate on it from NYE which by the next day was covered in ants. We are very tidy girls and give some grace for older hotels to have some flaws, but the experience for the price we paid made us appreciate the airbnbs we'd stayed at before checking in here.Location is great, gym and pool are great, but not worth the $ for NYE or Carnival.

Simple, comfortable, and close to everything you would want to do in Rio. One street away from the famous Copacabana and it has a rooftop pool area to finish your days resting after tons of tourism. Great food here and nearby, plus excellent shopping. Above all the breakfast and service is second to none. Family friendly as most other places in Brasil. Highly recommended!