Stacy Small discovers the real Rio |
AROUND THE WORLD | April 2006 | By: Stacy Small
Rio de Janeiro—more than Manhattan—deserves the moniker “the city that never sleeps.” Take a daytime flight and arrive close to midnight and you will still find plenty of cafes and bars open into the early morning. Do hire a driver to pick you up at the airport rates for a pr...
moreKeeping Fit - December 2007 |
7 SENSATIONS | December 2007
Copacabana Palace
You feel super-fit by just looking out of your ocean-facing window in this iconic white Orient-Express palace - from early morning on, there are the perfect Adonis guys running along or playing beach volley ball on Copacabana Beach a few meters away. Ask the concierge to arrange a p...
moreOutstanding Water Sports - December 2004 |
7 SENSATIONS | December 2004
Copacabana Palace
Ipanema Beach hosted the World Wakeboard Association's World Series in April 2004, and year-round Rio's beaches attract both professionals and amateurs for wakeboarding, wakesurfing and windsurfing. Best place to stay - apart from carnival time, when it is packed out - is the Copac...
moreWOW Confidential May 2009 |
CONFIDENTIAL | May 2009
Copacabana Palace's gold bar really sparkles
More authenticity, in the form of enjoying yourself in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the Copacabana Palace, it is stand-in-line to get into its new gold-lined bar, designed by Graham Viney. Best-selling cocktails are Caipirinha, with Brazilian cachaça,...
moreWOW Confidential April 2009 |
CONFIDENTIAL | April 2009
Follow the bronze brick road to Copacabana Palace
No need to wait for Carnavale to head for Rio. Copacabana Palace's new Lounge Bar is reached via a meandering golden pathway of glistening bronze bricks. The gold dance floor has a ceiling of fibre-optic constellations of the Southern Hemisphere - and...
moreWOW Confidential February 2009 |
CONFIDENTIAL | February 2009
Sun and Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach - what more can one want?
Well, the Copacabana Palace never stands still, and its latest evolution is a golden dance floor reached by a pathway of glistening bronze bricks (the bar and surrounding columns are gold Murano tiles, and overhead there's a fiber op...
moreWOWConfidential December 2006 |
CONFIDENTIAL | December 2006
Keep in shape while staying at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro
There is something about Rio that makes you want to join the army - literally - that runs up and down the beach, or plays on-sand volleyball or possibly goes to the extreme of body tucks and the like. You want to be beautiful, too...
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