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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 321 hotels
Best hotels in Rio de Janeiro
The 10 most notable hotels in Rio de Janeiro, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
ibis budget RJ Copacabana
R. Constante Ramos, 96
527 m from Cantagalo Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 100 of 321
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2
Novotel RJ Santos Dumont
Av. Mal. Câmara, 300
426 m from Santos Dumont VLT stop, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 99.69 of 321
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3
Novotel Rio de Janeiro Leme
R. Gustavo Sampaio, 320
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 99.38 of 321
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4
Ibis Santos Dumont
Av. Mal. Câmara, 280
464 m from Santos Dumont VLT stop, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 99.06 of 321
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5
Ibis Rio De Janeiro Barra Da Tijuca
Av. do Pepê, 56
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 98.75 of 321
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Mercure Rio Boutique Copacabana
Av. Atlântica, 2554
584 m from Siqueira Campos, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 98.44 of 321
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Novotel RJ Praia de Botafogo
Praia de Botafogo, 330
551 m from Botafogo, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 98.13 of 321
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8
Ibis Copacabana Posto 5
Rua Xavier da Silveira, 82
208 m from Cantagalo Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 97.81 of 321
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9
Ibis Styles Rio de Janeiro Botafogo
Rua São Clemente, 30
171 m from Botafogo, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 97.5 of 321
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Ibis Budget RJ Praia de Botafogo
Praça Joia Valansi, 24
555 m from Botafogo, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.177, percentile 97.19 of 321
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).