Américas Copacabana Hotel

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Do Not Stay
Severe Hygiene And Safety Issues
15%
Low confidence.
Based on 112 detailed reviews.
Score-only reviews are excluded.

This hotel has severe, systemic health and safety issues that make it dangerous to stay. Multiple recent reports confirm mold infestations, cockroaches, bedbugs, dirty sheets with feces, and widespread theft by staff including stolen passports, money, and credit cards. With fraudulent charges and zero accountability from management, this represents a serious risk to guest health, safety, and finances.

🚩 Red Flags

Cockroaches in rooms
critical
Mentioned 2 times, last 1 month ago
Our room was infested with cockroaches that came out at night

We were supposed to stay 10 nights, but we left after only 3 nights, because our room was infested with cockroaches that came out at night

1 month ago·France·Score: 1/10

Had cockroaches, very dirty

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10
Theft and security violations
critical
Mentioned 8 times, last 2 months ago
Personnel took out passports from our room without authorization and took $100 from my wallet

Personnel from the hotel took out passports from our room without authorization and they took $100 from my wallet. After a few hours arguing with the receptionist, they fund our passports in a locker of one of the members from the hotel

1 year ago·United States·Score: 1/10

We spent one night at the hotel, and the next day we went out at 10am. We returned at 7pm and someone entered our room, went through our bags, left our personal belongings messy, and didn't clean the room

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

They stole my chocolate and my credit card which they tried to use but couldn't because I blocked the option for foreign purchases

5 months ago·Peru·Score: 1/10

Cash and credit card were stolen from the room which were used in stores, the hotel washed their hands and didn't give us a sensible response to the gravity of the situation

1 year ago·Venezuela·Score: 1/10

We asked for delivery and left it in the room to eat later and some employee stole our snack when we left. The delivery was intact, it was more than 120 reais lost

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

One of the staff members went through my partner's wallet and left it open on top of the bed. Nothing was taken, but this is completely unacceptable

2 months ago·Australia·Score: 1/10

A jumpsuit that I love was missing from my suitcase, and I was outraged that they had stolen the item from my suitcase

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

I had a backpack lost in pre check-in, I filed a police report, looked for the hotel administration several times that provided no assistance

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10
Mold in rooms and bathrooms
critical
Mentioned 8 times, last 11 months ago
The first room we were in had mold covering the walls. COVERING.

The first room we were in had mold covering the walls. COVERING. They moved us to a different room; less mold on the walls but the shower still had mold

2 years ago·United States·Score: 1/10

We were changed rooms 3 times due to mold smell and air conditioning that didn't work. Even in the third room, there was still mold smell

11 months ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

The room was a dump: chewing gum in the wall, dirt on the wall, mold in the bathroom and on the curtains

2 years ago·France·Score: 1/10

Corridors with mold smell

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

I'm on strict allergy treatment and the room had mold and smell

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

Extremely dirty, terrible service, tiny room smelling of mold. Changed accommodation twice because they hadn't cleaned the bathroom properly and it was full of waste

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

They have a humidity smell in the rooms that makes you sick on the second day

1 year ago·Spain·Score: 1/10

Room with mold and air conditioning dripping

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10
Fraudulent charges and scams
critical
Mentioned 4 times, last 1 year ago
They charged me the smoking fee and some waters I had consumed. 60€ for having smoked in the room, but we weren't even there all day

They accused me of having SMOKED in the room when I don't smoke and my friend doesn't either. When I checked out they charged me the smoking fee. 60€ for having smoked in the room, but after having paid they told me that

1 year ago·Spain·Score: 1/10

They charged me 2 x 970 reais for early check-in, said they would refund and didn't refund and the reception phone they gave me doesn't answer

1 year ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

Front desk tried to charge 2x the rate on the Booking reservation. Then agreed to charge the correct amount after a slight argument

2 years ago·Iceland·Score: 1/10

At checkout they tried to make us pay for 1 extra parking day

2 years ago·Iceland·Score: 1/10
Bedbugs
critical
Mentioned 1 time, last 3 years ago
I had bed bugs in my room nr 509, many of them like 4-5 mm, I have been bitten and feels very bad

I had bed bugs in my room nr 509 and when I told it at 07.00 at the morning they promised help. I waited 2 hours and nothing happened. It was many, and some of them like 4-5 mm, I have been beaten and feels very bad. The bit marks on my skin still seems, after 5 days

3 years ago·Sweden·Score: 1/10
Dirty sheets and bathroom hygiene
high
Mentioned 12 times, last 1 month ago
Dirty sheets and towels. Mold in the rooms

Very dirty! Dirty sheets and towels. Mold in the rooms

2 months ago·United States·Score: 1/10

The room was very dirty, I was embarrassed, there were FECES INSIDE THE TOILET!!!! And the toilet seat was dirty with feces. A lot of hair on the floor of the room and bathroom

11 months ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

Bed linens with stains, bed bugs in the bed, small bugs in the bathroom

2 years ago·Portugal·Score: 1/10

We were given dirty towels on arrival which is absolutely disgusting

5 months ago·United Kingdom·Score: 1/10

The towels were old, stained, and had holes, and the bed linens didn't even fit the bedbugs properly

1 year ago·United Kingdom·Score: 1/10

Dirty bathrooms and even with hospital bandage from a previous guest

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

The room with bed linens with hair and dirty room with dust

2 years ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

The glasses I had available in the room, one of the glasses HAD DIRTY MOUTH MARKS ON THE EDGE, the other glass had dirt inside

11 months ago·Brazil·Score: 1/10

There were stains on the sheets

2 years ago·United States·Score: 1/10

The cleanliness of the sheets and towels, several black marks of old age? And some stains too that are old and don't come out

1 month ago·Belgium·Score: 7/10

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