Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Fasano Rio de Janeiro

Price per night from$614.57

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (BRL3,277.19), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Bossa nova bombshell

Setting

Iconic Ipanema

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If you could bottle the breezy bossa nova cool of late-Fifties Brazil, it would most certainly be served at Fasano Rio de Janeiro, mostly likely by the rooftop pool whose backdrop is that iconic view of Ipanema beach. Heck, it would even pour from the taps in your Philippe Starck-designed room, kitted out with mid-century Sergio Rodrigues chairs and Dali-esque ear-shaped mirrors. The girl from Ipanema’s saudade style – famously, tantalisingly out of reach – is within touching distance here. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

88, including 10 suites.

Check–Out

Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates don't usually include breakfast, but you can buy at the hotel from BRL180 plus tax.

Also

The hotel's communal spaces are accessible and if you use a wheelchair, there are adapted rooms in the Superior category, either with courtyard or ocean views.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, minibar, coffee- and tea-making kit, free bottled water, Ipanema flip-flops, bathrobes and Costa Brazil bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Entry level rooms look inland, so you’ll have to make do with a trip to the rooftop pool and bar for that most satisfying of views. Most other rooms, however, do face the beach, with beds and pillows angled towards the windows. The Deluxe Ocean Front Suite is nearly twice the size of the next category down, with a huge living area and spacious balcony, which we’re sure is where you’ll be spending most of your time (when you’re not in the restaurant).

Poolside

TThe famous view of Ipanema beach and the nearby Dois Irmãos peaks has somehow avoided cliché. Perhaps it’s just too gorgeous. Seeing it from the rooftop pool at Fasano Rio de Janeiro gives you a feeling of glamour, decadence and arrival, as well as awarding you a tick against a major bucket-list moment.

Spa

You’ll be well looked after at Fasano Rio de Janeiro. On the ground floor there are five treatment rooms for massages and facials that — like the hotel’s design — draw on the effortless style of bossa nova, while also dipping into other wellness-rich cultures such as those from East Asia and the Pacific islands. There’s a sauna and steam room, and up on the eighth floor you’ll find the fitness centre opposite the rooftop pool.

Packing tips

The beach look in Rio is naturally glam rather than overproduced. Avoid heavy make-up and loud designer brands in favour of sand-coloured linens, beach kaftans, olive or slate-grey trunks (for Mr Smiths) and stylish baseball caps. If you forget your Havaianas, don’t worry; you’ll find a fresh pair of Ipanema flip-flops in your room.

Also

Surf equipment and paddleboards are available to borrow for free.

Pet‐friendly

Up to two of your furry friends can join you in any room for BRL350 a week for each pup, provided they weigh less than seven kilogrammes and have an updated vaccination card. See more pet-friendly hotels in Rio De Janeiro.

Children

Little Smiths are welcome but the hotel is very much geared towards adults. Some rooms sleep three or four and connecting options are available across all categories.

Sustainability efforts

Fasano works with several charities and environmental organisations. For instance, an urban project is in place to transform unused spaces in Brazil’s big cities into organic gardens, and the hotel’s Comida Invisível Project connects food that has lost commercial value with those in need. Fasano Rio de Janeiro also has electric and hybrid vehicle charging points.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

All tables immerse you in the restaurant’s relaxed, retro ambience, but there are seats outside if you want to soak up the beachfront buzz during summer months.

Dress Code

Crisp white cottons; cat-eye sunglasses, optional.

Hotel restaurant

Madonna, Coldplay and Ed Norton are among the celebrity guests who’ve dined at Gero Rio, the hotel’s well-dressed ground-floor Italian restaurant. And you can see the appeal: red-brick walls and copper pillars are accented by Fifties-style furniture and plenty of greenery, making for a refined setting for veal and mozzarella ravioli with mushroom sauce, roasted leg of lamb and magnificent spaghetti carbonara. Breakfast is served in the Fasano Caffè, whose cruffins with dulce de leche have been a Coldplay-sized hit with guests.

Hotel bar

After the delights of Gero Rio, its much-loved Italian restaurant, the hotel’s other crowning glory is the rooftop bar (open 9am until 8pm). Caju is a tropical fruit (from the tree that gives the rest of the world cashew nuts) that pairs deliciously with cachaça for Fasano’s signature caipirinha de caju cocktail. Settle in with one beside your sunlounger by the lip of the infinity pool and drift away as you ponder Rio’s irresistible beach-by-mountain location. Alternatively, a lobby bar is open for coffees, then coolers and cocktails, around the clock. 

Last orders

Fasano Caffè is open 7am until 10.30am (until 11am at weekends). Gero is open for lunch from noon until 3pm (till 4pm, Fridays and Saturdays); dinner hours are 7pm until 11pm (or later, Thursday to Saturday); Sunday hours are noon until 10pm.

Room service

Dishes can be ordered to your room or suite 24 hours a day — a flex reflected in its comprehensive menu, which runs from breakfast pancakes to hearty Italian mains and dessert.

Location

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Address
Fasano Rio de Janeiro
Avenida Vieira Souto 80 Ipanema
Rio de Janeiro
22420-002
Brazil

Fasano Rio de Janeiro is along the beachfront of the city’s famous Ipanema neighborhood, overlooking sand, sea and the iconic Dois Irmãos peaks.

Planes

Both the city’s two main airports are within half an hour’s drive of the hotel. International visitors will most likely arrive at Galeão Airport, a 30-minute drive away. Santos Dumont Airport is 20 minutes away by car. The hotel can arrange private transfers from BRL350 for Galeão, or BRL250 for Santos Dumont. Meet & Greet VIP service is available for BRL1,000 for each guest; all prices are one-way.

Trains

There’s a metro station a kilometre away: General Osório station is on Line One of Rio’s subway.

Automobiles

You’ll find the hotel on the main stretch of Ipanema Beach, on the corner of Avenida Vieira Souto and Rua Joaquim Nabuco. Valet parking is available for BRL90 a day and there are charging stations for electric and hybrid cars.

Worth getting out of bed for

At Fasano Rio de Janeiro, you’re right in the heart of the action. So much so, in fact, that you can spy all the goings on of Ipanema beach right from the hotel. It’s worth crossing Avenida Vieira Souto, though, to feel that famous sand beneath your feet, grab a caipirinha and watch locals dancing to samba no pé or challenging each other to volleyball or futevôlei. 

Nearby is Arpoador, the small peninsula at the eastern end of Ipanema beach, where surf culture in Brazil began. You can borrow free surf equipment from the hotel or organise a private paddleboard or surf lesson. 

It may be unimaginative in many places but in Rio, a helicopter tour of the coastline is highly recommended, taking in Sugarloaf Mountain, the Christ the Redeemer statue and the rest of the city’s iconic outline. 

Tucked in Praça Mauá, the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) blends colonial and contemporary architecture and houses work exploring Brazil’s layered cultural identity. Architecture buffs will find much to admire at Oscar Niemeyer’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Niterói. The saucer-shaped building, which feels like a Bond film set, is perched on a cliff and worth the boat or car ride across Guanabara Bay. 

Local restaurants

A 15-minute drive away in Botafogo is Oteque, chef Alberto Landgraf’s two-Michelin-star temple to Brazilian-Japanese seafood, set in a modernist townhouse. Also in Botafogo, Lasai draws from its two strategically positioned gardens to celebrate Brazil’s bounty through a vegetable-first lens. Closer to the hotel and a little more relaxed, Satyricon in Ipanema is a seafood restaurant with a focus on Mediterranean dishes, as well as excellent sushi. 

Local cafés

Set in a restored colonial military fort, Café 18 do Forte offers a rare combination in Rio: historical setting, direct beach views and well-executed food. The outdoor terrace is great for a relaxed brunch or coffee accompanied by the sound of the sea.

Local bars

A couple of blocks from the hotel, Canastra Bar is a beloved neighbourhood spot known for natural wines and fresh caipirinhas using local fruit. Or, over near the Jardim Botânico, Casa Camolese is a dimly-lit but thrillingly buzzing cocktail bar with a craft beer brewpub on the mezzanine and a jazz club in the basement. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this beachfront hotel in Ipanema and unpacked their cachaça and açaí berries, a full account of their bossa nova break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Fasano Rio de Janeiro in Brazil… 

 

Italian immigrant Vittorio Fasano opened his namesake restaurant in São Paulo in 1902, introducing refined northern Italian cuisine to Brazil’s elite. Since then, the Fasano family has branched out from culinary excellence into hospitality, with a string of acclaimed hotels in the country’s major hubs, each celebrating the food and culture of their respective location. 

 

Fasano Rio de Janeiro does just that. It’s a symphony of references to the city’s emergence as a cultural powerhouse of the late Fifties and early Sixties. A centrepiece of this quiet revolution was Getz/Gilberto, the collaborative album from jazz stalwart Stan Getz and bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto, from which the single ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ became a worldwide smash and soundtrack to the era.  

 

The hotel pays gentle homage to its nova onda style through mid-century design touches, particularly its Sergio Rodrigues chairs and Philippe Starck-designed curvaceous mirrors, which exude cosmopolitan cool. It was Starck, in fact, who conceived much of the interior, making Fasano the first Brazilian hotel to undergo his conceptual treatment.

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