03/05/2020
Delayed Review Brazil January 2020 with good friends
We flew on Norwegian Air, different to most long haul I have been on. This airline is classed as a budget long haul airline.
What’s different?
The drinks are not free, included is a main meal with 1 wine, beer or soft drink. 1 light meal, 25kg of luggage and select your seat.
What’s Great about Norwegian?
It may be a budget airline but, the service on board was top notch nothing was too much trouble for the crew. The drinks you wanted & snacks could be ordered on your tv screen & we never waited more then 5 minutes for a drink.
The price of the flight was £525 per person, which was by far the cheapest direct flight to Rio I found.
Where did we go?
Rio for 3 nights
Foz du igrazu for 4 nights
São Paulo for 2 nights
Paraty for 4 nights
Rio for 2 nights
Rio,
People asked me did I feel safe?
Yes
We stayed in Copacabana Beach district. In an Ibis it felt safe I did not feel at risk, we done a tour and saw all the main sights in a day sugar loaf mountain being in my opinion the most impressive.
Internal flight down to Foz do igrazu
Foz do igrazu was simply stunning, breath taking and inspirational, my advice to anyone is out of all of the natural wonders I have seen this is by far my favourite.
We went over it in a helicopter, on a high speed boat up the river and took a jeep through the jungle. We visited both the Argentina side and the Brazil side over a few days
Internal flight to São Paulo
São Paulo
Wow what a mega city they use helicopters like taxis here as it’s so vast , it was so Interesting seeing how multicultural this city is. We again done a private tour to places such as ‘Batman alley’. This like any city is not safe in terms of mugging etc, you need to dress down and have your witts about you. As this happens a lot in this city.
5 hour Private transfer too paraty
Paraty
The Portuguese originally occupied this area, was said to be the main gold export of Brazil, Rumour has it some of the gold from here currently sits in the royal families collection.
This place is so chilled and relaxing Great restaurants, bars playing live music and where we stayed in an historic house in the centre everything was within walking distant
We did also Charter a yacht here, wow what can I say you need to do this!!! The islands here were stunning like something off of pirates of the Caribbean, we had freshly made caprinas and beers and soft drinks as well as a wonderful bbq. Where they catered for vegetarians with ease.
We then returned to Rio and chilled and ate at the Rio Palace hotel which was an amazing way to end our holiday with Good Friends.
Cost
Everything including long haul flight, 2 internal flights, transfers, all tours including helicopter and boat, private yacht and all accommodation ranging from 3 star to 5 star.
£2370 per person.
Which for what we did was amazing value