Enjoy a whole day with a private tour guide and a vehicle at your disposal.
Spend 8 hours driving around this wonderful city! Talk to the tour guide to put together a custom itinerary.
Take the suggestions given by the tour guide to discover the most interesting places in Rio de Janeiro.
It can be a sunny day at Ipanema, a visit to the Candelária Church or a walk through Cinelândia.
It's your choice!
Posted By : ecdias
We had an excellent overview of Rio, with the exceptionally nice, knowledgeable and informative guide Monica. She took us through the forests, stopping at beautiful viewpoints, through downtown Rio, with visits to amazing places, like Santa Tereza and Lapa, and the antique center, and finally showed us Rio’s beautiful beaches.
Monica was very good about giving us plenty of historical information, and answered any question we had. She is obviously extremely well read and informed. She also took us for a nice and easy lunch.
Overall, it was an amazing day that I would recommend touring with Monica to anyone looking to get to know Rio. I would gladly go again!
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Posted On : 2024-05-23 17:16:55 
Posted By : Aherriott
I was throughly excited to go on this tour as I had been communicating via WhatsApp with this company. I let it be known the time we were landing, that we needed to be picked up from the airport and that we wanted to remove a location to visit little Africa. We paid the additional BRL for the airport pick up and the location change. An hour prior to landing, I reached out to the company to let them know we would be landing to find out that the start time was incorrect and the location pick up listed was incorrect as well. We wanted to be picked up from the airport to start our tour because we only had one day in Rio. Somehow there was a lack of communication as the person I spoke to the next day had not referenced prior messages from the day before. However, after waiting, they arranged the transportation pick with an SUV not to start the tour but to take us to our drop off location to wait for the driver which was a waste of time. We had to wait 30 mins on the side of the street with our luggage which we was told was unsafe to do and when the guide arrived, he arrives in an extremely small car not fitting for 4 people and a driver. It would have even made more sense to keep the SUV to have more space. The driver then takes us to the Rio Carioca office location and from there I had never experienced the lack of customer services as I had from one of the young female with the medium length curly hair in their office. She was very nasty, rude and lacked customer service. I then began to match her energy and that when she saw I was not going to play with her. The tour was subpar as our tour guide was more of a driver and not a tour guide. The ride was silent and we were not given any information about our locations. I was not until one of my friends said something to him that he started to talk. There was no information given to us in Little Africa, we paid extra to ride through Little Africa instead of a tour as we didn't even exit the vehicle and was only told a story about a lady who owned a house that had plumbing problems and as a result of it, they found skulls in her home as we briefly rode through... That was it! When we got to the train for the Christ the Redeemer, the driver left his wallet. I ended up paying for the train (500 BRL) to avoid us having to sit and wait for him as he parked a half a mile away from the sight. At the end of the tour, the driver proceeded to drop us off at a steak house, when I asked was it paid for as I was told lunch was included, he tells me no, that lunch was not included, I then contacted the company, and he ends up taking us to the most unsanitary and disgusting restaurant while he proceeds to tell us he was leaving and drops us off at the restaurant with our luggage. I then asked the driver about my money back and I also contacted the connect via what's app to tell them what was going on. The driver comes back, I had to ask several times about my money. I had previously paid for myself and my daughter, the other two asked several times about payment and was told to wait as he would take them to the ATM. The connect via what's app told us the tour was 550 BRL per person and the balance was 1100 all together, After going to the atm, the driver attempts to make the other 2 pay 1100 BRL per person double the amount. We kept trying to explain it was 550 per person and made the attempt to call the person on what's app but the person would only respond via text and according to the driver Alberto, it didn't matter as he kept saying that was he was told. The driver attempted to hold our luggage hostage after being given 120 usd and 550 BRL in which he was paid more than enough and more. We tried to explain to him that he was actually being paid more but again he was not hearing it. He basically held us and our luggage for over 20 mins in the rain while trying to explain that he had already been paid and had over the amount. I literally had to record him with the money on his lap, send it to the connect via what's app to show them he had been paid. This companies communication is awful, their customer service was awful and their driver/guide Alberto is a fraud. DO NOT waste your money on a private tour with this company. I saw the review but the review are of group tours and not a private tour. Please go with another company to get the worth of the tour.
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Posted On : 2024-01-17 00:33:27
Posted By : RamH232
We used Rio Carioca tours for airport transfers and two all day tours in Rio. Everything was perfect.. They were on time and provided excellent service. If travel to Rio, Rio Carioca is the tour company to use!
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Posted On : 2023-09-23 08:22:00
Posted By : edoardopV4451JE
Monica was an excellent guide who guided us around Rio flawlessly. He took us around the most famous and crowded attractions efficiently. He has not neglected at all the historical, architectural and artistic aspects of a city that apparently does not offer the ideas of other large metropolises. A guide that I would highly recommend to everyone. Thanks Monica
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Posted On : 2023-08-16 16:51:00
Posted By : adriana b
We had the most interesting tour in Rio. We enjoyed Monica. She has lots of knowledge. Monica is highly recommended ....
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Posted On : 2023-08-03 12:49:36
Posted By : barbarahR3245IE
I booked a full day tour of the main attractions in Rio de Janeiro for me and my team of wheelchair paralympic athletes, so it wasn't an easy task for the organisers. They organized everything perfectly - adapted transport picked us up and took us to the hotel, we visited all the attractions using wheelchair accessibility. The guide Sergio was incredibly well prepared, kind, communicative with great knowledge! I recommend it 100%!
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Posted On : 2023-01-15 07:29:37
Posted By : michaelfT5434RS
What a wonderful day we had with our entire family. We ordered a private tour for our group of 11 and we really had a blast. Our guide was Monica who took the time to answer all of our questions and who tailored the itinerary as we had requested. Great memories, smooth operation and highly recommended !
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Posted On : 2022-12-25 15:29:32
Posted By : Berrou-camel
It was amazing day in Corvavado and pão de açúcar.
We were very lucky to have Monica as our guide. She is very interesting in her explanations, she is caring and speaks fluently English, Spanish, French and I think other languages.
Congratulations to her.
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Posted On : 2022-02-02 17:51:01
Posted By : Nubian2040
I enjoyed the Rio Full Day Tour. My guide Manuela was excellent. She was very kind and knowledgeable about history of Rio/tour sites we visted. I was also amazed how she spoke Portuguese to other tourists and then translated to English for me. I strongly recommend you book this company along with Manuela as your guide.
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Posted On : 2021-08-12 05:02:36
