Do you really need a Rio de Janeiro nightlife guided tour, or can you do it safely by yourself?
Typically, a Rio nightlife guided tour includes dinner at a touristy local restaurant, and after dinner, a folk show, with samba dancers and musicians, capoeira session, and gorgeous women and men in Carnival costumes.
Some tour operators offer a package which includes dinner at a typical restaurant, and a live band playing traditional Brazilian music either at the same place, or after dinner elsewhere.
As a private tour guide to Rio de Janeiro, I have taken hundreds of tourists on a nightlife guided tour. Nowadays, I no longer offer night tours. However, to partially replace me service, I have written My Rio Travel Guide, which is my how-to visit e-book on Rio de Janeiro.
This e-book covers safety, transportation, eating and drinking, accommodations, tours, and obviously Rio’s nightlife. The nightlife chapter was written in a way that you can skip a nightlife guided tour, and discover Rio’s night hot spots by yourself.
Rio de Janeiro has in excess of 32.000 taxis. Even at nighttime is not hard to find a taxi. On the contrary, because of Rio’s daytime traffic many taxi drivers prefer to work at night.
The bottom line is that you can easily and safely take a taxi to a restaurant, have dinner, then cross the street to see a samba concert, and then take a taxi from a taxi stand in front of the samba place, and get back safe and sound to your hotel.
In My Rio Travel Guide I make detailed distinctions of the nightlife options available in Rio de Janeiro and explain how to self-guide night after night, discovering the music scene in neighborhoods like Copacabana, Ipanema, Leblon, Laranjeiras, Lapa, and Downtown.
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