I've been reading the Rio threads and I just want to thank everyone who has contributed comments and made this forum the best place on the web to find travel information, and particularly travel info on Rio.
APTS in Ipanema:
In three weeks I fly out to Rio and I'll be there until mid-August (a six-week trip). I'm still looking for an apartment; so far I've been searching online for places in Ipanema, and I placed an add on craigslist with my price range (about R$1450/mes). Do you guys know of a better method/website for searching an apartment in Ipanema? Also, is $1450/mes what I should expect to pay for an apartment in Ipanema?
I received an email back from a woman today. She said her apartment is 5 minutes away from Arpoador Beach. She sent some photos, it seems legit (I would post the photos but I don't want to use up the bandwidth, especially with me being a "Janitor" and all).
Here's what Maria (the lady with the apartment) wrote:
"I have this place, air conditionair, tv cable, werelles, beatifull plantes, flowers, place balance, all furnished kichen, and all place,dependencias maid ,laundry. I have rented,price 4.500 to months all apartments, but i do too bed and breakfast, i live alone, i can do good price you or 2 peoples in suite,no more taxas with air, can cooking, laundry, all clean every day and you pay 1450.00. In Ipanema hostel bedroom with 6 or 8 peoples is 30.00 one day, My apartments is in five minutes beach arpoador."
So I guess Maria lives alone, and will give me the bedroom for R$1450? Which (coincidentally) is the same price I listed on craiglist.
The end of her message was a little confusing to me:
My celular 55 21 ------- [I, dronias, deleted the numbers]. I no want to receved money after,and can not give my telephone because is not good to do it,because many peoples no good ,go in internet do know were is peoples americans. I clean all apartments,npo send maid to do,because i prefer to carre my clients.Do you undesrtand?
VISA:
I still need to apply for my tourist visa. I'm a little scared of applying for the visa without listing a contact address of where I'll be staying in Brazil. How did you all go about filliing out the "Contact In Brazil" section of the visa application?
ABOUT ME:
I'm a grad student in NYC (Brooklyn). I studied abroad in Mexico for a year, and later spent a summer in Santo Domingo. I'm fluent in Spanish. Lately I've been studying the Pimsleur Portuguese tapes like a mad man. So far I've finished about 25 lessons. Today I called a couple apartments in Rio thinking that it'd be a decent opportunity to see how far my Portuguese has come, and I froze up like a shy 8-year-old...I could barely man up enough to say "Boa tarde."
Thanks for your help!
APTS in Ipanema:
In three weeks I fly out to Rio and I'll be there until mid-August (a six-week trip). I'm still looking for an apartment; so far I've been searching online for places in Ipanema, and I placed an add on craigslist with my price range (about R$1450/mes). Do you guys know of a better method/website for searching an apartment in Ipanema? Also, is $1450/mes what I should expect to pay for an apartment in Ipanema?
I received an email back from a woman today. She said her apartment is 5 minutes away from Arpoador Beach. She sent some photos, it seems legit (I would post the photos but I don't want to use up the bandwidth, especially with me being a "Janitor" and all).
Here's what Maria (the lady with the apartment) wrote:
"I have this place, air conditionair, tv cable, werelles, beatifull plantes, flowers, place balance, all furnished kichen, and all place,dependencias maid ,laundry. I have rented,price 4.500 to months all apartments, but i do too bed and breakfast, i live alone, i can do good price you or 2 peoples in suite,no more taxas with air, can cooking, laundry, all clean every day and you pay 1450.00. In Ipanema hostel bedroom with 6 or 8 peoples is 30.00 one day, My apartments is in five minutes beach arpoador."
So I guess Maria lives alone, and will give me the bedroom for R$1450? Which (coincidentally) is the same price I listed on craiglist.
The end of her message was a little confusing to me:
My celular 55 21 ------- [I, dronias, deleted the numbers]. I no want to receved money after,and can not give my telephone because is not good to do it,because many peoples no good ,go in internet do know were is peoples americans. I clean all apartments,npo send maid to do,because i prefer to carre my clients.Do you undesrtand?
VISA:
I still need to apply for my tourist visa. I'm a little scared of applying for the visa without listing a contact address of where I'll be staying in Brazil. How did you all go about filliing out the "Contact In Brazil" section of the visa application?
ABOUT ME:
I'm a grad student in NYC (Brooklyn). I studied abroad in Mexico for a year, and later spent a summer in Santo Domingo. I'm fluent in Spanish. Lately I've been studying the Pimsleur Portuguese tapes like a mad man. So far I've finished about 25 lessons. Today I called a couple apartments in Rio thinking that it'd be a decent opportunity to see how far my Portuguese has come, and I froze up like a shy 8-year-old...I could barely man up enough to say "Boa tarde."
Thanks for your help!