Giants invasion in Rio!!!

At the beginning of this month, coming from Holland the Giant Jan.

Staying with us for 8 days, a giant smile with giant ideas and a giant heart, took proof of our country on a realistic way, visiting by himself some parts of Rio. Interested on understanding a little bit of our culture and our reality, he got really great experiences by himself and principally shared a little with us.

After a few days travelling around Brasil, he finally came back to us, now with a very special and pretty Giant girlfriend named Petricia! Invasion of the giants completed!

It was a pleasure to have our hotel invaded by this sweet giants!

For them, we send through this blog a Giant hug, hoping that they have a brilliant live and come back again soon!

Castelinho38 Staff.

Aussie NRG!

After a long conversation through e-mails and lots of excitement, they finally left Australia and arrived in Rio.

Long lasting talks over our balcony and bar, tour around Rio, visiting a favela and watching live the Carnaval parade at Sambódromo, this friendly guests left us with a sense of "wanting more", mostly because of the energetic way they felt and saw our country.

One of the most beautiful things of working on a Hotel is this variety of human sample we see coming and leaving our lifes: we have the opportunity to watch our own reality through other people`s eyes.

For this ones, we thanks for the energy they passed to us, to our city and to our schools of samba at Sambódromo.

We hope to see you again soon!

C38 staff.

GUESTS OF THE MONTH!

They arrived in Rio from Argentina, after a long trip: plane from London till São Paulo, there to Santiago de Chile and Valparaíso (Chile) and from there on, by boat to Argentina, Paraty and finally Rio.
Despite of the heat (over 40ºC almost every day of this month) and suffering a little bit to adapt to this, they went to Sambódromo Parade, sharing with our people this good vibrations they have inside! For sure gave good lucky to us and to the schools of samba!


Angelina and Dusan, a beautiful couple, easy going, simpathic, open mind, funny and happy...fiting in with our Country and with our Hotel at this period: Summer, laughs, heat, sweat and Canaval.

We hope to host them again as soon as possible!
C38 staff.

Heaven on earth

This saturday 6th of Febrary, our breakfast had an special sound...the Carnaval Block (bloco de Carnaval) "Céu na Terra", with musicians playing inside the Bondinho .
Watch the crowd at our bar, over the balcony is a very exciting experience. Take a look (sorry, but because of the distance, the pic is not that good)!!


And then, the train follows ahead with the crowd and passes at Largo dos Guimarães, central point in Santa Teresa, when our guests can comfortable go outside, down to this square (4 minutes walking) and take proof of the great event that is to see this crowd wearing fancy clothes and following the train singing and jumping...so, this second picture is to show the view from the slope that connects our Hotel to Largo dos Guimarães:



We hope you come to join us at this especial period of the year so, here it goes some of the "Blocos de Carnaval" program this weekend:

Thursday - 11/02 - Banda da Rua do Mercado - 4pm till 10pm - Rua do Mercado, Praça XV, Centro.
- 11/02 - Badalo de Santa Teresa - 7 pm till 01 am - Largo das Neves - Santa Teresa.

Friday - 12/02 - Embaixadores da Folia - 5 pm till 11 pm - Avenida Rio Branco, Centro.
- 12/02 - Afroreggae - 7 pm till 12 am - Arcos da Lapa - Lapa.
- 12/02 - Carmelitas - 2 pm till 7 pm - Rua Dias de barros - Santa Teresa.

Saturday - 13/02 - CÉU NA TERRA - 6 am till 12 pm - Praça Odilo Costa - Santa Teresa.
- 13/02 - Bola Preta - 7:30 am till 1 pm - Avenida Rio Branco, Praça da Cinelândia - Centro.
- 13/02 - Zé Pereira - 1 pm till 4 pm - Escola de Música Villa Lobo - Lapa.
- 13/02 - Aconteceu - 2 pm till 8 pm - Largo das Neves - Santa Teresa.

Sunday - 14/02 - Cordão do Boitátá - 7 am till 4pm - Rua do Mercado - Praça XV - Centro.

Beyonce comes for CARNAVAL !!!

Beyonce, one of the world's biggest divas is now in Brazil with the "I am... Tour".

After her show in Florianopolis, where 25.000 people vibrate with her dance and music, she will be presenting in São Paulo (6/2).
Finally, on the 7th she will arrive at Rio de Janeiro, where she will give us two wonderful shows (7 and 8/2).



Beyonce had requested 30 rooms for her personal staff of 45 people, including her band Suga Mama, and 40 pizzas after each show. All dressing-rooms need to be painted in white and 25 degrees.

The performance in Rio will be in the HSBC Arena, in Barra da Tijuca.

There are tickets available for monday 8th. The price vary from R$95,00 to R$750,00 .

The tour will end in Salvador in Carnaval eve, on the 10th.

We hope Beyonce feel the brazilian heat and visit us frequently!

For more information about the tickts: www.livepass.com.br

I really don't want to miss it!