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Pools Good, WiFi Bad At the Windsor Atlantica Copacabana

Where: Avenida Atlantica 1020, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 22010-000

If this isn’t one of the most iconic hotel room views, we don’t know what is. Our friend Tony snapped this from his room last month at the Hotel Windsor Atlantica, which claims to be the tallest hotel (37 stories) on Copacabana Beach.

Sadly, when he sent us a picture of the room itself, we weren’t so impressed. Look at those tiny windows! And that work area and color scheme looks a bit blah.

Our friend wasn’t so down on it though – this was his verdict:

Great location, right on the beach, a few steps from a bustling town with plenty of restaurants and bars, a 30 minute max walk to Sugar Loaf Mountain and handy for a large mall. Room's equipped with modern flat-screen TV, large comfortable bed, and is reasonably contemporary, but no WiFi - ethernet cable only.

So if you need WiFi, it’s only available in the lobby - and it's an enormous $30 plus a day, as is the ethernet in the room.

Air conditioning was rather hard to control and essential, too: one day I left it off with the window open and the room was covered in moisture from the humidity. Nearly fell over on the marble floor on the way in.

There are two nice pools - one on the fourth floor, a nice size lap pool, right next to the restaurant. The other is on the roof, an infinity pool with spectactular views of the beach, Sugar Loaf and Christ the Redeemer on Corcovado. There's a nice-sized gym, three indoor jacuzzis and both a steam room and sauna.

Worst thing in the hotel: the restaurant. Terrible food, very expensive, virtually nothing Brazilian. Burgers, pizzas and chicken sandwiches, and a $60 buffet of decidedly average quality.

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Real Life Peter Parker Saves Hotel View Shot In Rio

Where: Avenida Atlantica 1020, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22010-000

Don't believe in real world Peter Parkers? Check this out.

Flickr photog Mistca was enjoying a birthday dinner at Le Saint Honore, the restaurant atop Le Meridien Hotel in Leme, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and snapped the above excellent photo for posterity.

After dinner, things got downright ugly:

I took a nice stroll along the beach on Av. Atlantica. It was very beautiful warm and romantic.... until 3 guys approached me with a big knife and wanted me to surrender my backpack in which I had my camera.

All my subsequent action were on auto-pilot: I kicked the guy's hand that was holding the knife, screamed like a wild animal, and ran away towards the street with passing cars. At that point I tripped and spilled on the pavement..... The would-be-robbers however got scared and ran away. If they succeeded I would not have had either my camera or this image....

The things travel super-heroes will do for the perfect hotel view shot. What do you bet the attackers names were Eddie Brock and Flint Marko--beach, photos--had to be, right?

[Photo: mistca]