JO&JOE Rio Largo do Boticario

There's a particular kind of property that travellers keep coming back to in Rio de Janeiro: JO&JOE Rio Largo do Boticario, a hostel in Zona Sul, fits that bill. The modest location score reflects what guests actually feel on arrival, set away from the busiest corners of Rio de Janeiro, with the kind of rhythm a city…

There's a particular kind of property that travellers keep coming back to in Rio de Janeiro: JO&JOE Rio Largo do Boticario, a hostel in Zona Sul, fits that bill. The modest location score reflects what guests actually feel on arrival, set away from the busiest corners of Rio de Janeiro, with the kind of rhythm a city traveller tends to want. Inside, the rooms are modest, and guests pick out an in-house restaurant and reliable wi-fi as the small things that add up over a stay. It feels lived-in rather than staged, which tends to be the difference between a stay you remember and one you don't. Pull the review pages apart and you find well over 2,300 reviews, with a strong consensus that's hard to engineer. Reputation has held up across enough stays to mean something. Pricing has been sitting near €15 a night and the value score puts it in a strong-value bracket compared with similar properties. The honest read on JO&JOE Rio Largo do Boticario is that it deserves a side-by-side look against the bigger Rio de Janeiro names rather than a headline of its own.