Rio is a truly amazing city, and despite it being the end of their winter, the place is hot hot hot! It is also cheap cheap cheap, so no money worries here. Should have pushed the boat out a bit on the hotel. Came down one of the main boulevards out of the city centre the night we arrived and just as we got into the depths of Rios answer to the Bronx, the cab turned off down the street our hotel was on. Inside it had a feel to it of one of those places you s...