Previous entries have been mixed. Best Western has bought the Rio Copa so it's now the Best Western Rio Copa. It is stragetically located to bus/metro/taxi locations. Take your pick. Recent renovations have elevated them to a 4-star rating. I stayed during Carnival so I was soaked at $200 a night during the "big nights" but the drop to $99 my final 2 nights was, I think, a bargain. Excellent breakfast buffet 6a-10a. Rooms clean, great shower (very hot), helpful staff (pretty good English & knew which buses to take to go where), and I can fault nothing. Give them a look-see.

So, this was my first time in Rio so I wanted to get to know all the different hoods such as Copacabana and Ipanema, therefore I booked for 4 nights at mar ipanema hotel and 3 nights at BW Rio Copa Hotel! both hotels were very nice. The rooms at Rio Copa are slightly bigger though and also nice decorated. The location is very nice, a lot of tourists told it was the best part of Copacabana (Leme or something I can't remeber). I was very weary about the BW Rio Copa hotel after reading the trip advisor reviews but when i got there I couldn't understand why is it so poorly rated. The staff is really nice, specialy the clening ladies and the frontdesk officers.
The hotel is next to the copacabana beach which is very wide and wonderful. Also it is next to the biggest mall in rio, called Rio Sul.
The hotel's restaurant is a brand-new one and has excellent buffet!
hope you enjoy it!!

Booked with hotel via email and Skype. Gave credit card details. Hotel refused to organise a car to meet me at the airport. Can't be bothered to use Yellow Pages. After I had left Australia the hotel then wanted a photo copy of my credit card (front and back) or the wouldn't keep the room. "It is the law" they said - Rubbish. No local currency held at front desk so I paid the cab in $US - Bloke on front desk watched the Cabbie try and rip me off etc. (Always have $US in small denominations). Room with own air-con that noisily cut in and out. Curtains smaller than the window. Lots of street noise and flashing signs. Stayed one night and rented an apartment. Best Western's toll free don't want to know about any problems unless the booking was made using them. Ho hum.

Rio Copa Hotel was overall ok.
The rooms are ok. Not very modern but clean.
The breakfast is a really Brazilian style with lot of fruits and all kind of breads. The price is a bit expensive but seems to be that is Brazilian economy to be growing enormously.