These designer hotels in Rio are for A-listers

Hotel Santa Teresa uses natural and ecological materials as a tribute to its historic past as a coffee plantation mansion. Photos: AFP Relaxnews

With the Rio 2016 Olympics around the corner, hotels across Rio De Janeiro are likely pulling out their best china and polishing the silverware to greet the world at their doorstep.

And while there’s a time and place for behemoth hotels that sell cookie-cutter rooms in the same neutral, inoffensive palette of beiges and browns, they can do injustice to the city of Rio which is a kaleidoscope of colours.