travel42 Hotel Review: Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro

Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Opened in 2016, Grand Hyatt has a spectacular beachfront location way out in the distant coastal suburb of Barra del Tijuca, which boasts miles and miles of wide, white-powdered sand beaches with much fewer people. Although Barra is technically part of Rio, it's so far removed from urban life that no visitors would consider this part of a city.

To reach Ipanema Beach, it can take as much as an hour drive in heavy traffic and more to get to Copacabana, cit...