Located right opposite the beach, the hotel is only separated by a busy road from the white sands. I was on a very high floor with a side sea view, the noise from outside could only be heard when the window was open, so excellent insulation, also no noise from neighbouring rooms. The room was big, very clean. Bed and pillows were comfortable. The electricity plugs worked with European mobile phone and toothbrush charger. Wifi was decent. Wonderful views from the room and the 17th floor rooftop. with pool. Bar on the rooftop had selection of average light food and drinks with decent prices and open until midnight. Breakfast room had large choice of everything, was tasty with many local fruits and vegetables. Excellent Brazilian steak restaurant next to the hotel. Safe area, easy to walk around. Pharmacy next door sold mineral water.

No big issues, overall a dated five star hotel from the mid 1990's. No shoe polish, no tea and coffee making facilities in the room. Room facilities are dated (there's only one shower head (not moveable and fixed to the wall ) in the bathroom, old telephone, old furniture, not enough power sockets for two guests). To charge the laptop, a transformer was needed, which was not available at reception. Its far from tourist attractions (about 50 mins by car from Copacabana with light traffic), but Uber was cheap, safe and easily available.

The breakfast was fantastic. It was a buffet, but they also provided cooked to order items. The hotel was across the street from the beach. The nearby restaurants were great. The room was nice.

We had trouble with a language barrier. Some of the people spoke very situationally driven English. They could speak well enough to check you into the hotel, but they couldn't answer questions. We had a situation happen with using their laundry service. We didn't know what they wanted and they couldn't explain it to us. They did try and their English was much better than my Portuguese.

The breakfast is very complete and the staff is very attentive. Although the rooms are not modern, they are clean, spacious and have a beautiful view. The door staff is always very attentive and the porters too.

There is food service on the terrace, and they have few staff, it takes them a long time to bring you a drink or a coffee, about 20 minutes. They do not provide hot water that they could easily give you. The gym was the biggest disappointment, only one machine and treadmills and bikes. Few weights, the mats were of poor quality, there are no benches or bars to do weight training. I went with the expectation of training and I had little desire, very little.

Breakfast was great but the same thing without any change for 7 days that we stayed. Location was great, one of the cleanest and safest beaches of Rio; If you are interested in the clubbing or night life or busy beach vibe, probably not your best option but as a family with two kids, we definitely enjoyed the location more than Copacabana (we stayed there as well)

The room hadn't have basic equipment like electric kettle or complementary tea or coffee (probably not that common in Brazil as we didn't receive them in other hotels as well)

Its our 2nd time at Windsor Barra Hotel, location is great; in front of the beach. Breakfast and dinner buffet are very good with a great variety. The pool area has a beautiful view of the beach and surrounding mountains. Overall this is one of the best hotels in Barra da Tijuca, the area is very safe and security in the hotel is very good. We had a great family vacation and we’ll be back.

Check in takes a long time

great room with sea view was wonder, pool on the roof top with the bar option was also great! towels for beach and pool were always available, good breakfast

5 star hotel didn’t provide the guests with the free umbrellas for the beach and also no sun chairs!! i found it a No go!! thin walls, we could hear some repairing noise in one of the the evenings breakfast was too expensive when we arrived, the line for check in was huge, we needed to wait about 45 minutes and then even to wait till 2 pm to get a room… check in time was also very long with the paper burocracy 😤

The breakfast could have been better.

The cleaning level in the hotel is excellent and the staff members are friendly. The location in front of the beach is perfect with a great view.

For this price they should at least provide one bottle of mineral water each day. Also, there should a box of tissues in the room and a kettle with some hot drinks such as tea or coffee.

Location, pool with sauna.

The pool area smells like fried food, you need to fix the chimneys so the difunda from the kitchen don’t spoil the environment at the pool. Also the shower drain on room 421 does not keep up and after the shower the bathroom is flooded. The view from room 421 was bad, I expected to see the ocean, for the prize I payed.

Breakfast is very good: a lot of variety, everything tastes really good and staff was very polite and helpful. The room was very spacious and comfortable and we were really pleased there was a bathtub in ours !

Unfortunately the jacuzzi in the pool was in need of a fix: the water heater was not working and only a few jets were on. Also, we could hear some noise from the corridor in the room.