The Rio de Janeiro official guide is always helpful to give you a perspective of the city — sights, restaurants, shopping, guided tours, hotel information, transportation, and the like.
The official guide to Rio de Janeiro is a great introduction to Rio, but it is way too comprehensive, with too much information for the average busy traveler to absorb. Besides, there are too many official listings: dozens of restaurants, dozens of bars, dozens of cafes. How many do you need on a 3-day stay in Rio de Janeiro? How can you choose one among so many?
The excess of official recommendations continue: dozens of hostels, dozens of hotels, dozens of Bed & Breakfasts. How many do you need during your vacation in Rio de Janeiro? Variety is good, but to a certain extent. After all, what is a guide for? To save you time and money by offering guidance on a sea of options that you are not familiar with.
If you have a chance to get a copy of the Rio de Janeiro official guide from your hotel front desk concierce, do it. However, if you want to get a practical how-to visitor’s guide, then you need a copy of the non-official My RIo Travel Guide.
Instead of giving you so many choices of restaurants, bars and cafés to choose from in Rio de Janeiro, My Rio Travel Guide suggests mostly the non-official, must-try, where you can perceive great value, and where locals eat.
Instead of giving you a list of every single official partner hotel, My Rio Travel Guide lists only the finely-selected ones that combine location, service and quality.
Instead of listing every single place of interest in Rio de Janeiro, my Rio Travel Guide suggests a step-by-step easy to follow self-guided itinerary that allows you to visit an attraction, then from there to visit another attraction close by, then another attraction, and so on. In the end of the day you can visit all the must-visit classic spots as well as the off-the-beaten path sites.
You hardly need to figure out anything. You can, for example, present the suggested itinerary to a taxi driver that he will immediately know how to proceed — safely, at your own pace, within your budget. Alternatively, you can follow the suggested routes on the PDF maps and do your own self-guided walking tour.
Don’t hesitate. Get your copy of My Rio Travel Guide – The Essential How-To Visitor’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro, and start planning how to experience the real Rio without hassles and disappointments.
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