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Private Tour: Exploring Rio City Essentials: Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf
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286 Ratings
Rio de Janeiro
Embark on a private tour of Rio de Janeiro’s city essentials, including iconic landmarks like Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf. Customize your itinerary and enjoy a memorable experience!
Embark on a private tour of Rio de Janeiro’s city essentials, including iconic landmarks like Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf. Customize your itinerary and enjoy a memorable experience!
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Corcovado - Christ the Redeemer - Ride the train through the Rainforest to get to the Christ the Redeemer Statue and visit it.
- Sugarloaf Mountain - Ride the cable cars up to the mountains to have a stunning view of the city and the coast
- Real Gabinete Portugues Da Leitura - The gorgeous library the Portuguese built to preserve their…
- Corcovado - Christ the Redeemer - Ride the train through the Rainforest to get to the Christ the Redeemer Statue and visit it.
- Sugarloaf Mountain - Ride the cable cars up to the mountains to have a stunning view of the city and the coast
- Real Gabinete Portugues Da Leitura - The gorgeous library the Portuguese built to preserve their literature. A must see!
- Escadaria Selaron - Staircase decorated with colored tiles from all over the world. Amazing !
- The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian - Unique arquiteture. A must see !
- Santa Teresa - Visit this charming neighborhood near the City Center
What's Included
- Private air-conditioned vehicle with professional driver
- Certified Tour Guide
- Pickup and drop-off in hotels, airports, seaport, you say where!
- Complimentary bottled water
- ‘On the fly’ adaptations: change the itinerary during the tour to match your wishes.
- Private air-conditioned vehicle with professional driver
- Certified Tour Guide
- Pickup and drop-off in hotels, airports, seaport, you say where!
- Complimentary bottled water
- ‘On the fly’ adaptations: change the itinerary during the tour to match your wishes.
What's Not Included
- Tickets for Christ the Redeemer (But we help with that!)
- Tickets for Sugar Loaf (But we help with that!)
- Food and Drinks
- Tickets for Christ the Redeemer (But we help with that!)
- Tickets for Sugar Loaf (But we help with that!)
- Food and Drinks
Additional Information
Important! The itinerary provided is merely a suggestion. We are highly adaptable and can modify it to suit your preferences!
Experience the finest private city tour in Rio de Janeiro with both a driver and a tour guide at your service. Explore iconic sites like Corcovado (Christ the Redeemer Statue), Sugar Loaf, the Selaron Stairs, and more! There…
Important! The itinerary provided is merely a suggestion. We are highly adaptable and can modify it to suit your preferences!
Experience the finest private city tour in Rio de Janeiro with both a driver and a tour guide at your service. Explore iconic sites like Corcovado (Christ the Redeemer Statue), Sugar Loaf, the Selaron Stairs, and more! There will be a break for lunch (not included in the price), allowing you to savor the local cuisine. This is sure to be an unforgettable experience!
- To avoid crowds at Christ the Redeemer, we recommend starting the tour as early as possible. Our earliest time is 6:30am.
- To watch the stunning sunset from Sugar Loaf Mountain, we recommend starting the tour at 11:30am or later.
- The “Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (Royal Portuguese Reading Room) is not open on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. We will visit another attraction on those days.
- If you are staying at Barra da Tijuca and Recreio, we recommend starting your tour at 6:30 AM to avoid heavy traffic and experience the best of Rio.
Location
Corcovado - Christ the Redeemer
Estrada Redentor - Alto da Boa Vista, Parque Nacional da Tijuca
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(286 Ratings)
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Ruth_p
Feb 13, 2025
Excellent experience - Great way to pack a lot of sights in a short period of time. Guide (Diogo) was amazing. Very knowledgeable and accommodating.
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Vadakoot_v
Feb 8, 2025
Rio.. An unforgettable experience - Diogo our guide proved to be a very fluent English speaker who was so knowledgeable about the city and its history. A caring gentleman whose passion for what was doing was a very visible one . I wish him the very best .
Saw all the main points of importance of this vast city in the available time . A good value for the money . Will recommend highly .
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Lisa_m
Feb 6, 2025
Great tour of Rio!!! - Fantastic! Our guide, David, was very pleasant and knowledgeable. We saw Christ the Redeemer, the Cathedral of St. Sebastian, the Teatro Municipal and the National Library in the Centro Historico/Cinelandia, Parque das Ruinas/Parque Gloria Maria, Escadaria Selaron and ended atop Sugarloaf at sunset. The driver was great. And David took lots of great pictures!
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Aparupa
Feb 5, 2025
Best trip in Brazil - Rio - Flávio was a great guide! He took his time and made the trip very informative and worthwhile. He had a lot of energy and passion as a tour guide making the whole day worthwhile. He also has great knowledge in soccer and the players!!!
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901attilav
Feb 4, 2025
Best way to see Rio main attraction points - This tour is a wonderful way getting to know Rio. It’s 8hours but touches all the major attractions and it’s extremely comfortable to have your own driver and guide taking you through the city, saving you many hours of valuable time that you can spend on millions of other activities in Rio.
Special thanks to our tour guide Flavio and our driver Romulo (hope I spell the name right) who did a fantastic job showing us these top attractions.
Flavio, thanks for all the background on history, art and architecture and thanks for all the fun facts you’ve told us. Hope by the end of the tour we also managed to teach you some Hungarian words you can benefit from (your interest towards languages is truly unparalleled).
Romulo thanks for sharing your beautiful new car with us for the day, it was just perfect.
Great experience and definitely recommend, it’s the best way to see all these major attraction points in Rio.
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Jessica_d
Feb 1, 2025
Highly recommend! - We were so happy we did the private tour! Cassio was our guide and he’s super cool and full of knowledge about Rio. He got great pictures of us and showed us multiple great spots we wouldn’t have found on our own. We highly recommend the private tour and Cassio!
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Radostina_v
Jan 31, 2025
Great trip in Rio with Diogo ! - Great trip and a perfect guide Diogo . He organized everything and told us a lot of the history of the city and Brazil . It was very interesting. Also the restaurant for the lunch was fantastic - beef, pork , fish , oysters … everthing fresh and well done .
Thank you , Diogo !
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Craig_z
Jan 30, 2025
A perfect day in Rio - This was a perfect day in Rio. Higor (tour guide) and Alexander (driver) were fantastic hosts. When Higor says he is well know at SugarLoaf and Christ the Redeemer, he isn’t kidding. He was greeted like a best friend everywhere and we were rushed to the front of every line. Now to be clear, we did buy the skip the line tickets and I would highly recommend it. We had Marcelo (owner of tour company) purchase them on our behalf ahead of time. He charges a 5% handling fee and it is so well with it. It removed any ambiguity and also get the tickets directly to our tour guide so he could expertly guide us through the fast lanes, etc. Just do it. You will be happy you did. So what did we do? Well, Christ the Redeemer, SugarLoaf, the Selaron Steps, and Tijuca National Park. Plus seeing parts of Rio while driving from one to the next, including Le Blon, Copacabana Beach, Ipanema Beach, and more I can’t recall. Higor graciously took pictures of us everywhere we went and climbed all the way to the top of the Selaron Steps with us. He knew ‘secret’ paths at SugarLoaf that sped us past crowds to get us to the best vantage points. He took us to parts with NO crowds that seemed like an oasis from the masses. In Tijuca I had just mentioned that I’d love to see a monkey and voila! There one was! Results may vary of course. Higor and Alexander told us we would stop at a ‘small’ waterfall. It was hundreds of feet high, cascading down the mountain through the rich greenery. It would not be considered ‘small’ back in the USA.
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Stu_s
Jan 28, 2025
Everything we wanted and more - What a day! Diogo and Johnny (driver) picked us up right on time. Diogo let me know the intended itinerary which was great but there was one extra thing I wanted to see. He said no problem, and off we went. Diogo's english was great and his attention to all the details of making sure we knew what we were seeing on the road and at the stops was perfect. The amount we learned about the history of rio was incredible. Also being able to chat with Diogo about current day to day life in rio from his point of view made things extra special. No questions went unanswered, no attention to detail spared. Even the organization with Marcelo beforehand for venue tickets was flawless. Top it off with Johnny's safe and calm driving in super busy streets it really was the perfect day out. Highly recommend this tour and especially Diogo our guide, it's a day we'll never forget!
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Judyc_g
Jan 28, 2025
A Day in Rio - My husband and I did a private tour with friends and David was our tour guide. The tour company stayed in touch with us throughout the process, was very professional and worked with us so we could see everything we wanted to see in Rio. David allowed us to customize the tour. He was knowledgeable, flexible and he took us to an authentic Brazilian restaurant for lunch. Our van was new and the driver, Geraldo, was excellent. At the end of the tour, they dropped us off at the airport. We highly recommend this tour.
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