Help - Hotel Deal In RIO for NYE?
Dec 8, 2000 | 12:40 am
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Carioca - hang the expense, I'll go anyway for a few days - sounds like fun! Some of the rates for waterfront/close places were half decent on an email I just got, so will go for it.
On Varig I used an airpass that allows 2,500 miles for $US280 wherever they fly. SCL-GIG is only about 1,800 miles I gather. I can check on booking an onward ticket to Brasilia or somewhere fairly close like that if you or your friends can use it - let me know!
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On Varig I used an airpass that allows 2,500 miles for $US280 wherever they fly. SCL-GIG is only about 1,800 miles I gather. I can check on booking an onward ticket to Brasilia or somewhere fairly close like that if you or your friends can use it - let me know!
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Dec 8, 2000 | 8:39 pm
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Glen.......I sent you an e-mail.
Check out this churrascaria (Brasilian for all you can eat BBQ beef restaurant...worth ***** stars !!!!!)............it's called "Porcao".............which in Carioca slang is......."Big Piggy"..........
The best food in the world.........well.........actually it's tied with "Marius" (another churrascu) in Ipanema and Copacabana.........
All you can eat........and then some........
Several Caiparinhas are also in order too............
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Check out this churrascaria (Brasilian for all you can eat BBQ beef restaurant...worth ***** stars !!!!!)............it's called "Porcao".............which in Carioca slang is......."Big Piggy"..........
The best food in the world.........well.........actually it's tied with "Marius" (another churrascu) in Ipanema and Copacabana.........
All you can eat........and then some........
Several Caiparinhas are also in order too............
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Dec 9, 2000 | 6:40 am
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Carioca Canuck is right. Go to Porcao in Ipanema but he forgot some very important information. Have a light dinner the night before and very little food the day of the feast otherwise you'll not have room for all the good salads and meat.
I've had great food there the only problem I had was when the waiter said the Malibu was "complimentary" I thought he meant free but he thought it meant it compliments the meal. The drinks wound up costing more than dinner.
Dick
I've had great food there the only problem I had was when the waiter said the Malibu was "complimentary" I thought he meant free but he thought it meant it compliments the meal. The drinks wound up costing more than dinner.
Dick
Dec 10, 2000 | 9:55 am
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That's a good idea...........I'm in. We could all go out for dinner.
I'd have to upgrade to First for the return flight though............burp......
There's also a fantastic place one block off the beach on Rua Siqueira Campos. It's R$15 for churrascu.....compared to about R$35 at these other places.
You can also try the great Italian place called "La Mole"............
Or "La Maison"....a classy beachfront restaurant with a huge outdoor bar, right beside the California Othon hotel.
I can feel my arteries hardening now.....
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I'd have to upgrade to First for the return flight though............burp......
There's also a fantastic place one block off the beach on Rua Siqueira Campos. It's R$15 for churrascu.....compared to about R$35 at these other places.
You can also try the great Italian place called "La Mole"............
Or "La Maison"....a classy beachfront restaurant with a huge outdoor bar, right beside the California Othon hotel.
I can feel my arteries hardening now.....
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Dec 10, 2000 | 3:55 pm
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Red Robin ..... lets try and make it a mini FT event in RIO! Carioca and I have been in touch a few times by email and were setting something up anyway. Can't figure out your timetable exactly above. Are you leaving on the 1st to fly JFK? We arrive on 31st from Chile, so maybe a lunch or whatever on 1st will suit? If you are on the same flight to JFK as we are (#847) it leaves at 5.20 pm I think?
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Dec 12, 2000 | 6:11 am
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Thanks for email RedRobin. Hope it all comes together.
I have asked on FT Community if anyone else will be around during this period and wants to join in.
I am flying in to Santiago via Lan Chile from a Christmas week on the Falkland Islands and then on Varig direct to RIO, arriving 2pm, Jan 31st. The wild RIO NYE culture will be a pretty amazing contrast to the sleepy farming village of Sea Lion Island!
Anyone know of a decent Hotel deal for JFK area for Friday Jan 5th? Priceline.com not giving anything cheap, and a weekend early January should be REAL quiet?
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I have asked on FT Community if anyone else will be around during this period and wants to join in.
I am flying in to Santiago via Lan Chile from a Christmas week on the Falkland Islands and then on Varig direct to RIO, arriving 2pm, Jan 31st. The wild RIO NYE culture will be a pretty amazing contrast to the sleepy farming village of Sea Lion Island!
Anyone know of a decent Hotel deal for JFK area for Friday Jan 5th? Priceline.com not giving anything cheap, and a weekend early January should be REAL quiet?
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Dec 12, 2000 | 6:14 pm
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Sorry,
I forgot to follow up here.
I will be in Rio, from 26 until 1st.
Carioca, qual o nome do lugar na siqueira campos?
It has my vote.
I think La Maison might be pricey and La Mole deadly! (linguica calabresa) oh.. i miss it too!!!
OZ,, the day of 31st will be really hard for me, it will be ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to do anything around copacabana...
I forgot to follow up here.
I will be in Rio, from 26 until 1st.
Carioca, qual o nome do lugar na siqueira campos?
It has my vote.
I think La Maison might be pricey and La Mole deadly! (linguica calabresa) oh.. i miss it too!!!
OZ,, the day of 31st will be really hard for me, it will be ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to do anything around copacabana...
Dec 12, 2000 | 9:40 pm
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RedRobin.....
Desculpe.....eu pedirei meus gata pra do nome.
I agree that La Maison is pricy for the high end dishes...but the pizza on the sidewalk cafe is fantastic.....and good chopp is R$1.25....great scenery too.....
I remember the look on the waiter's face once in La Mole, when I asked for and received a coffee which I proceeded to drink black. When I waved off the tray of the hot milk and sugar it was as though I was from another planet.
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Desculpe.....eu pedirei meus gata pra do nome.
I agree that La Maison is pricy for the high end dishes...but the pizza on the sidewalk cafe is fantastic.....and good chopp is R$1.25....great scenery too.....
I remember the look on the waiter's face once in La Mole, when I asked for and received a coffee which I proceeded to drink black. When I waved off the tray of the hot milk and sugar it was as though I was from another planet.
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Dec 13, 2000 | 8:55 pm
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RedRobin and Carioca Canuck,
Please take a look at these links to get a better idea of the type of person you are dealing with. If Ozstamps is really fast, he'll be able to edit and delete all of his offensive posts, but that would still take year or two...
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Please take a look at these links to get a better idea of the type of person you are dealing with. If Ozstamps is really fast, he'll be able to edit and delete all of his offensive posts, but that would still take year or two...
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Dec 14, 2000 | 1:02 am
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I'll have an chilled Antarctica for you too FallinAsleep. Enjoy that snow.
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Dec 14, 2000 | 8:14 am
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Ummm. Wonderland. Before you started your multi dozen post 'cyber-stalking' rampage this morning, did you notice the IP logging button was turned "ON" ??? (Lower right of each post)
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