O Veleiro

If you're looking for a great place to stay in Rio -- cozy, beautiful design, lush grounds and panoramic vistas, with a first-class welcome from a terrific staff, and a fresh, full breakfast -- choose O Veleiro!


A cantilevered confection of wood, stone, brick
and air,
O Veleiro Bed & Breakfast
floats on a sea of mist and greenery
above the Marvellous City.

The windows of O Veleiro
are meeting places for marmosets,
balconies for bossa nova serenades,
look-outs over luscious landscapes,
portals of light
that invite and incite
the well-fed, well-rested, and casually fortunate guests
to participate with the cariocas
in the active creation of another beautiful day.

On most such days,
when the conjugation of light and latitude
aligns a certain breeze along the Tropic of Capricorn,
O Veleiro / The Sailboat lifts from its moorings,
hoists its hammocks as the most laidback of sails,
and disembarks from its hillside dock,
setting forth from the open arms of the massive Cristo Redentor
to navigate Botafogo like a float in Carnaval,
and beyond, over beaches,
through the Baia de Guanabara,
to pull alongside the cablecar park
atop Sugarloaf Mountain
as a gift of pleasant surprise
from Rio
on and out to the wistful world.