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When I went, the Belmond wasn't at all run down but the rooms seemed a bit basic for even a four star hotel. Service wasn't nearly at the level of its sister property, the Copacabana Palace in Rio. OTOH, my FHR bookings gave me a one category upgrade at the Belmond Park and an upgrade to a corner ocean view small one bedroom suite at the Copacabana Palace, so these stays were very different experiences at very different prices. [I had one of the one bedroom suites with the huge terrace for monkeys on a C + P booking using SPG SNAs at the Sheraton.]