Product Description

Rio for Partiers is a travel guide to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) designed for red blooded tourists.

It outlines, in a step-by-step manner, all the must-see tours of Rio: relaxing tours (exactly where to go to unwind), adventure sports (who to contact for instructions), cultural (the essential tours) and rainy day ideas (what to do in Rio when it's raining).

It also goes into detail on what every tourist must try: from snacks to tropical fruit juices, to Brazilian cuisine to local drinks. Thirdly, it lays out the nightlife scene, giving each day of the week the best option for: clubbing, live music, street parties or bars.

Lastly, it offers dozens of tips on topics like safety, prices and how to deal with Brazilian boys and girls. But what makes Rio for Partiers even more desirable is that it can save the tourist lots of money: the publishers have partnered with sports instructors, bars and restaurants to get them to offer a discount or bonus to bearers of our book: just show the cupons in the back and you are automatically entitled to free drinks, discounts to daily rates and VIP entrance (no waiting in line) at the best bars and clubs. In short, Rio for Partiers tells you everything you need to know to have a blast in Rio.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #371246 in Books
• Published on: 2005
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 164 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9788589992015
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Review
"Cristiano showed us more of Rio in three days than we would have seen in a month by ourselves..." -- Andrea Hitzberg, Blue (Canadian TV Travel Show), December 12 2003

"This guys knows all the nooks, dives and undeground joints in Rio" -- Donald Harrison, Jazz Musician, 29 Oct 2003

About the Author
Cristiano Nogueira also authored Salvador For Partiers. Has lived in Brazil, Chicago and Austria has hosted over 120 groups of young tourists in Rio de Janeiro.

Customer Reviews

A Rio guide book designed by young people for young people
I really think you have to have traveled to a distant land where you do not speak the language and are confronted with dozens of opportunities and what to see and what to do to appreciate a good travel guide. Now, obviously I do not qualify as part of the target audience for Christiano Nogueira's "Rio for Partiers: The Twenty-Something's Guide to Rio de Janeiro," but I can certainly appreciate the way it follow Donald C. Bryant's dictum of adapting ideas to people and people to ideas. Nogueira, who has hosted dozens of Gringos throughout Rio, is aided and abetted in this effort by a team that includes those whose expertise extends to the subject of how to deal with Brazilian boys and Gay Rio. It is really clear that the 2004 edition of this book has been test driven around the blocks of Rio a few times. The claim on the back is that this is the first guide book to Rio designed by young people for young people, but being first is not as important as getting the promised job done.

Actually, figuring out if this is the book for you to take on your trip to Rio is fairly easy: just open up the front cover. There you will find a nice list of helpful sentences and words, dealing with emergency, night lift, numbers, time and tourist attraction. But you will also find a list of recommended dinner places that have agreed to honor a bonus of some sort, and a series of good (and bad) gestures that can not only held you communicate with the natives but save yourself from doing the wrong thing with your fingers.

"Rio for Partiers" is well organized, beginning with a key section that covers what to do before arriving with regards to what to bring (and what not to bring), how to get the discounts and bonuses (the cover claims you can save up to $487 by using this book, but be prepared that this could mean a one-time use of this book), and the "9 Rio Commandments" (e.g., don't argue with cops, don't try to drive). After that point the guide is split into three key sections devoted to daytime, dinner, and nighttime. You will also find a couple of pages devoted to what is happening each month of the year in Rio (it is not Carnivale time all year round you know).

For daytime the guide assumes you get up around 10 or 11 in the morning and gives you a choice of relaxing, sport, and cultural activities. If you want to blow over $100 there are pricey activities and the guide even has you covered for rainy days. The dinner guide has suggestions that cover the different styles of Brazilian cuisine, broken down into expensive, average, and inexpensive recommendations (often with color photographs to help give you a clue). There are four types of nightlife covered: clubbing, street party, live music, and relaxing. You will also find a pay guide on prices of street food, services, and taxi fares. In other words, the people who wrote this book know what you need to know, although I will refrain from commenting on the section devoted to dealing with Brazilian women (although I did find the four main types of Brazilian women to be interesting from the standpoint of comparative sociology).

This guide book is here to take care of you in Rio, which means not only reminding you to get flip flop sandals and after-sun lotion, but also "remedio para desarranjo" (anti-diarhea medicine) and "remedio para ressaca" (hangover medicine). It has suggestions for lunch and specific places to go for clubbing, live music, street parties, and just chilling. There are the alcoholic drinks you "must try," but there are also non alcoholic drinks listed as well. Before you head home there are also specific gift ideas not only for family, guy friends and lady friends, but for yourself as well.

If in the end you are still overwhelmed by the possibilities, the flap on the back cover gives you a digested version that lets you try a little of everything with nine days worth of recommendations. You will also find reference and emergency contact numbers whether you need a taxi, hospital, or to contact your consulate, so all the bases are once again covered. Time and time again you will come back to the idea that Nogueira and his team have your back (there is a website for you to e-mail complaints if you receive poor or unfair treatment from the hand-picked establishments). I would never survive being a partier in Rio, but I would certainly be comfortable going off to meet my fate with his guide in hand.

Young hearts run free
Cristiano Noguiera wrote this handy pocket-sized guide to Rio, one of the most exciting cities in the world, for young people, although a lot of the tips and information are also useful to older people such as myself. Clearly, this book is based on years of research, trial and error. You learn very early on that this is really a young person's book - it assumes that your day begins with a late breakfast at 10 or 11, because you've been clubbing into the small hours on the night before.

The book is well laid out, printed on high quality paper and filled with plenty of great photographs. There are several sections. Daytime activities are further divided into relaxation, tours, active sports and cultural. The food guide covers lunch and dinner with plenty of mouth-watering photographs. Sounds of Brazil tell you the various musical styles that you can expect to hear. Nighttime activities include chilling (a category that includes British and Irish pubs), clubs, street parties and live music.

There is plenty of advice - what to take with you, what not to take with you, a list of hotels and hostels, what transport to use and why, things you need to buy once you get there, what to do at the beach, which parts of the city to avoid, problems of street traders, pickpockets and other criminals, even advice on how to find a partner.

One of the many amusing - but useful - aspects of this book is the front cover flap, which illustrates eight hand signals, including one to ask for a beer.

There are plenty of street maps showing various bits of Rio but the scale is necessarily small. To avoid eyestrain, you may still want a separate larger scale street map. However, the maps in the book pinpoint various locations that you aren't likely to find on any normal street map.

The book also gives a website address to allow you to get all the latest information. Other website addresses, particularly of places that offer discounts, are also provided. So once you've got this book, you can do a lot of research on the internet without wasting time when you get there.

At first glance the price may seem high for a 148-page pocket-sized book, but it can be used to obtain discounts on sports, tours, nightlife, restaurants, hotels and hostels - these discounts will save you far more than the cost of the book. Instructions on how to get the discount and what conditions apply are also supplied.

This is a truly wonderful guide that should provide tourists with plenty of valuable advice.

Another day in paradise
I've been traveling to Rio for business/vacations for several years now, and have become truly addicted to the culture, and the impossibly breathtaking views of the beaches and the women. Maybe not in that order. I picked up this guide when I was already a Copacabana veteran. It is concise and very helpful for the newbie venturing out into new territory. There is a serious culture barrier here with few people speaking English, so you are pretty much on your own without a running buddy. Yes, Rio is paradise beyond anything you can imagine, and yes, it can be very dangerous, particularly at night time. Your stuff will be stolen on the beach if left unattended. Pickpockets are everywhere. But when you read all the precautions, scams, and advice you will quickly acclimate to the environment.

This book is penned for a great short-time tourist experience, with plenty of sightseeing spots, restaurants, and nightclubs to visit. (club names change often). As far as the women, they are everywhere, and give you the great girlfriend experience that is near impossible to find back home. The language barrier makes it tough to pick up regular girls clubbing in tourist areas. Brazilians tend to hang together. My advice would be to listen to Pimsleur Portuguese tapes prior to your visit to get a rudimentary head start.

For short term visitors looking to save time and want to be smothered in women, for arranging the sure thing just pick up Brett Tate's The Hedonist: World Sex Guide - Single Male Erotic Vacations in Rio, Costa Rica, Thailand, Carribean and much more, which has extensive pay for play advice for Rio and 20 other cities. A word of warning to first time visitors. This place is mesmerizing. Don't surprised if you find yourself hugging a girlfriend at the airport, sobbing in broken childish gringo Portuguese "please don't make me leave." One more thing. You're not that special. She'll be hugging another sobbing guy at the airport in a few days.