Welcome the New Year with stay in a 5* hotel in the Sun

Sofitel Rio de Janeiro 5 days/ 4 nights

Located in front of the famous Copacabana beach and close to Ipanema the five star Sofitel Rio de Janeiro is considered on the most prestigious hotels in the city. The hotel has 355 rooms and 33 suites including two non-smoking floors. Some of the amenities offered by the hotel include VIP “Imperial Club” business floor, International and French cuisine, the Atlantis coffee shop, and Horse’s Neck English pub. The hotel also has available for the guests 10 meeting rooms able to accommodate up to 2500 people, a business center with 13 rooms, two swimming pools, a fitness center, sauna, Turkish bath, and access to beauty salons and shops.

Check in:  28 December 2011

Check out: 1 January 2012

For £ 1,495 per person in a double room (min. 2 travelers)

Included:

• 4 nights stay in a Classic Room
• 4 breakfasts
• Transfer in and out from the GIG airport to the hotel
• Full day tour with visit to Sugar Loaf and Corcovado with lunch included

Rio de Janeiro Sugar Loaf and Corcovado Tour Description:

Morning pick up in hotel. Tour starts and will take you to the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (lagoon) will reach the Rebouças tunnel, a 2.6 km long complex that links the southern and northern parts of the city cut in half by the Tijuca ridge that makes Rio the only city in the world to have a National Park 5 minutes from downtown. Reaching the Cosme Velho district, tour members will take a cogwheel train of Swiss manufacture that climbs the mountain from its base at 15 mtrs to almost its summit at 670 mts. The very top is reached by climbing a flight of steps reaching the base of Christ the Redeemer statue. This statue covered with a mosaic of soapstone is one of Rio’s finest Art Nouveau monuments. The view, from this vantage point, with the surrounding Tijuca National Forest spreading below and a circle of mountains closing the horizon at the very back of the Guanabara bay. Guide will take around 40 minutes to show the city and the statue to passengers. After this, returning to the train, and descending to Cosme Velho to board the bus to visit São Conrado and Pepino Beach, where the hanggliders soar. Lunch will be served in a seagood restaurant.
In the afternoon, tour will continue visiting downtown Rio and the highlights of a city that has been the capital of Colonial Brazil, the capital of the Portugal and Brazil Empire and now a Republic, passing by the Sambodrome, the Metropolitan Cathedral, in pyramid form, with internal diameter of 96 meters and height of 80 meters. Get to know the traditional Cinelândia square with the historical buildings, the Municipal Theater, the National Library and the National Museum of Fine Arts. By taking the Aterro do Flamengo, you will be taken to the neighborhood of Urca where one of the largest symbols of the city is located: the Sugar Loaf. This visit is made in two steps by cable car. The first cable car takes passengers to Urca Hill which is 215 meters high and from where one can have a beautiful view from the Guanabara Bay and its islands, the Rio-Niteró Bridge and Corcovado Hill.

Excluded are:

• International airfare
• Optional tours
• Personal expenses

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