Hey people,
Thought I would contribute a little with my personal views and experiences from Rio.
The short version; dont go there unless you speak portuguese, which might not even validate the choice as there probably is better.
I have just come back from three weeks in Rio, where I was living in the apartment in Copacabana.
Took a diving certificate with Mar do Rio and the diving outside Rio isnt bad, we had 20 meters visibility!
The food
Is good, especially those eat pr kilo place, there is a really nice one on the first plaza(square) on the mainstreet piranha going trough Ipanema, also the ecological/organic place tropico in Ipanema is cool and cheap. Meat and fruits are good, try the brazilian grapes and Maracusha sucos and eat ACAII at the same plaza in Ipanema, some Amazonian store, its great and filled with antioxidants... their pizzas kinda suck, and their attempt to make sidedishes are mostly best descriped as varying degress of disasters, bread is the quality of white toast bread.
If you go to one of the malls in Leblon, the one with starbucks there is alot of nice eating places on top and the sushi place has the best view, plus that mall has alot of the most gorgeus women after 15 everyday.
Stuff to bring... all imported is 3-5 times more expensive... bring your own proteinpowder if you like to eat right or workout alot..
Nightlife
Liked it alot, Nice places; Melt (leblon), Nossa Senhora (best caperinhas!) (copa), Ditto feita (close to center)was the best place IMO, where there x2. Tuesdays its womens night and strippers turn on the women and then 20:30 the men get in... had some interest from gorgeous girls that then turned out to be there before a wedding ...(bla bla). Tried six (lapa) and hide away, six might be solid, but hide away..even for a sunday I have seriously never seen so many ugly people in one place I guess the name should have hinted the concept of uglypeople.com .
Emporio is a bar in Ipa, kinda nice and low key, and lots of foreing people exchange student, but very left wing-cheap feel to it, just like lapa, but pleasant
Dont like LAPA, some might do, I personally dont, was the most unsecure place in my eyes and it even more gutterish than the rest of Rio.
Missed a few places I cant recall the name of atm, will update when I do.
The beach.
Lovely, Ipanema is wonderfull and just as exotic and marvellous and you could dream of... (you can always add me of facebook if you wanna see pics). There is mostly turist people unless weather is good, then locals also comes. Mostly well trained guys.. and rarely any real hotties, but at least girls are approachable and alot speak english or at the least are friendly because they are not Rio women...
A chair not more than 3 reals, umbrealla tell them no more or tell them you got it for that price yesterday.. I even got one guy trying to hustle my afterwards with a "special" chair for 5.. I was just are you kidding me? and he got 3..
I bring my own water since those small bottles for 2.5-3 reals dont last for long. Sunsets are beautifull are truely out of this world..go there..enjoy the breeze, the people the tranquil mood... almost worth all the crap
The women of Rio:
In short they where teribly disappointing, both in terms of being just as stuck up as any bitches from my own western culture and in that mostly they wherent particulary hot or good looking. I got alot of interest of even the best looking chicas until they found out I didnt spooke portuguese... then it was game over instantly... with the few I found that spooke english they eventually flaked, probably because I was a shorm term gringo looking for fun, but might have been any of the following reasons didnt build enough attraction, didnt behave as aggressive as brazilian men does or seemed interested enough. The normal push pull doesnt seem to apply here, its more push push push, go for another girl push push!...
Best looking and truely amazing girls was found in my Ipanema gymn.. and some on the Leblon mal.. might be worth a more long term setup to nail one of those, these bitches are not easy game and def. requires a serious plan... but they are really the quality of women I came to Rio to bang, not many of them around and def. outstanding, I frankly just came too badly prepared and thinking my good looks and aloofness would get me laid.
I got approached though several times when out..even by a hot girl, but lacking portuguese skills left me with the kissing fast option, that I didnt exploit since the only hotty that I really felt for started weaving her engagement (or supposed) ring and saying in perfect english, I dont speak english, I dont speak german I dont speak italian... haha was almost funny she should learn the "go home and masturbate gringo"
But hooking up with some guys on this forum PePini, carlos and even the master jedi himself was cool and we had some good night out and think Pepini and his friend and I might go to Norway or meet another time..
Can def, recommend meeting people from this page and only give mad probs about Roosh and he got swagger and is a cool type (for a hippie).
On a side note I did, out of curiousity and lust for adventure a little pay to play..
Dont do escort, they arent the same as the pictures...
the brothell 4x4 is fucking amazing.. its filled with 8,9,10 rating of the most hot women you will ever see and probably fuck, fucked a gorgeus hooker there, good a didnt go sooner, since I would have had to go there more, even though the joy of doing pay to play always leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Never had trouble with taxidrivers, never seen any violence, but the city is just bad version of an european one and is really not worth it, besides the beaches, its just expensive, ugly and noisy, plus that unsecure feeling eventually gets on your nerves if your from a secure place in the world...
I have more than once though about the sentence that lead me there from Roosh "there is Rio and then there is the rest"
Maybe I just got it wrong
Will def. go to another place in Brasil or Colombia next time, only reason for Rio would be to hook up with a beauty that spooke english to start making prodigy
So my rating 5/10 not too bad when its sunny and you got money in your pocket to pay for quality.
Thought I would contribute a little with my personal views and experiences from Rio.
The short version; dont go there unless you speak portuguese, which might not even validate the choice as there probably is better.
I have just come back from three weeks in Rio, where I was living in the apartment in Copacabana.
Took a diving certificate with Mar do Rio and the diving outside Rio isnt bad, we had 20 meters visibility!
The food
Is good, especially those eat pr kilo place, there is a really nice one on the first plaza(square) on the mainstreet piranha going trough Ipanema, also the ecological/organic place tropico in Ipanema is cool and cheap. Meat and fruits are good, try the brazilian grapes and Maracusha sucos and eat ACAII at the same plaza in Ipanema, some Amazonian store, its great and filled with antioxidants... their pizzas kinda suck, and their attempt to make sidedishes are mostly best descriped as varying degress of disasters, bread is the quality of white toast bread.
If you go to one of the malls in Leblon, the one with starbucks there is alot of nice eating places on top and the sushi place has the best view, plus that mall has alot of the most gorgeus women after 15 everyday.
Stuff to bring... all imported is 3-5 times more expensive... bring your own proteinpowder if you like to eat right or workout alot..
Nightlife
Liked it alot, Nice places; Melt (leblon), Nossa Senhora (best caperinhas!) (copa), Ditto feita (close to center)was the best place IMO, where there x2. Tuesdays its womens night and strippers turn on the women and then 20:30 the men get in... had some interest from gorgeous girls that then turned out to be there before a wedding ...(bla bla). Tried six (lapa) and hide away, six might be solid, but hide away..even for a sunday I have seriously never seen so many ugly people in one place I guess the name should have hinted the concept of uglypeople.com .
Emporio is a bar in Ipa, kinda nice and low key, and lots of foreing people exchange student, but very left wing-cheap feel to it, just like lapa, but pleasant
Dont like LAPA, some might do, I personally dont, was the most unsecure place in my eyes and it even more gutterish than the rest of Rio.
Missed a few places I cant recall the name of atm, will update when I do.
The beach.
Lovely, Ipanema is wonderfull and just as exotic and marvellous and you could dream of... (you can always add me of facebook if you wanna see pics). There is mostly turist people unless weather is good, then locals also comes. Mostly well trained guys.. and rarely any real hotties, but at least girls are approachable and alot speak english or at the least are friendly because they are not Rio women...
A chair not more than 3 reals, umbrealla tell them no more or tell them you got it for that price yesterday.. I even got one guy trying to hustle my afterwards with a "special" chair for 5.. I was just are you kidding me? and he got 3..
I bring my own water since those small bottles for 2.5-3 reals dont last for long. Sunsets are beautifull are truely out of this world..go there..enjoy the breeze, the people the tranquil mood... almost worth all the crap
The women of Rio:
In short they where teribly disappointing, both in terms of being just as stuck up as any bitches from my own western culture and in that mostly they wherent particulary hot or good looking. I got alot of interest of even the best looking chicas until they found out I didnt spooke portuguese... then it was game over instantly... with the few I found that spooke english they eventually flaked, probably because I was a shorm term gringo looking for fun, but might have been any of the following reasons didnt build enough attraction, didnt behave as aggressive as brazilian men does or seemed interested enough. The normal push pull doesnt seem to apply here, its more push push push, go for another girl push push!...
Best looking and truely amazing girls was found in my Ipanema gymn.. and some on the Leblon mal.. might be worth a more long term setup to nail one of those, these bitches are not easy game and def. requires a serious plan... but they are really the quality of women I came to Rio to bang, not many of them around and def. outstanding, I frankly just came too badly prepared and thinking my good looks and aloofness would get me laid.
I got approached though several times when out..even by a hot girl, but lacking portuguese skills left me with the kissing fast option, that I didnt exploit since the only hotty that I really felt for started weaving her engagement (or supposed) ring and saying in perfect english, I dont speak english, I dont speak german I dont speak italian... haha was almost funny she should learn the "go home and masturbate gringo"
But hooking up with some guys on this forum PePini, carlos and even the master jedi himself was cool and we had some good night out and think Pepini and his friend and I might go to Norway or meet another time..
Can def, recommend meeting people from this page and only give mad probs about Roosh and he got swagger and is a cool type (for a hippie).
On a side note I did, out of curiousity and lust for adventure a little pay to play..
Dont do escort, they arent the same as the pictures...
the brothell 4x4 is fucking amazing.. its filled with 8,9,10 rating of the most hot women you will ever see and probably fuck, fucked a gorgeus hooker there, good a didnt go sooner, since I would have had to go there more, even though the joy of doing pay to play always leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Never had trouble with taxidrivers, never seen any violence, but the city is just bad version of an european one and is really not worth it, besides the beaches, its just expensive, ugly and noisy, plus that unsecure feeling eventually gets on your nerves if your from a secure place in the world...
I have more than once though about the sentence that lead me there from Roosh "there is Rio and then there is the rest"
Maybe I just got it wrong
Will def. go to another place in Brasil or Colombia next time, only reason for Rio would be to hook up with a beauty that spooke english to start making prodigy
So my rating 5/10 not too bad when its sunny and you got money in your pocket to pay for quality.