Our family of 5 just spent 8 nights at this luxury penthouse for the week of Christmas. The pictures on the VRBO website are very accurate, and you will have a hard time finding more luxurious and safe accommodations in the heart of Copacabana right next to the beach and just 2 blocks from the Copacabana Palace hotel. The staff was great and immediately responded to every inquiry we had. The manager, Vincent, was particularly helpful with advice on restaurants and activities, and he checked in on us every day to make sure we were comfortable and that everything was going well. The layout of the apartment is quite nice, and with only 5 of us in the apartment we had plenty of room to ourselves. The place can accommodate many more, maybe 10 people. But I chose this penthouse apartment for our family because it had all the items that were important to me: location, elevator, rooftop pool, amazing views, large bedrooms, plenty of bathrooms...each bedroom has its own bathroom, and very nice furnishings. I should point out, however, that only the bedrooms are air conditioned. So on hot days, it was difficult to enjoy the living room and dining rooms. That's too bad. For a place this nice, the entire apartment should be air conditioned. But all the common areas have huge sliding windows to allow cross breezes, and there are curtains to block out the sun to help cool things down. This is the only negative comment I can make about an otherwise spectacular property. Even so, I would stay here again and I would highly recommend it to anyone who values luxury and style.