GRUPO PL - RIO DE JANEIRO February 2011 - or May/June 2011

Adventure World do Brasil

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“The statue of Christ Redeemer, One of The Seven Wonders of the World”

THE PROGRAM

Day 1 - Arrival

Arrival and transfer to the Hotel.

» Suggestion Welcome Samba Trio

» Suggestion Welcome Dinner

Day 2 – Tijuca Tour & Corcovado

Breakfast at hotel. HD Jeep Tour Tijuca Forest

and Corcovado with BBQ lunch. Dinner at Máriu’s

Crustáceos.

Day 3 – Tropical Islands

Breakfast at Hotel. FD Tour Tropical Islands with

lunch without beverages.

Day 4 – Sugar Loaf & Capoeira Lessons

Breakfast at hotel. HD Sugar Loaf Tour with BBQ

lunch at Porcão Ipanema without beverages.

At night, departure for Pocket Show and cocktail

at Cidade do Samba.

Day 5 – Rio Scenarium

Breakfast at hotel. HD Shopping tour – Barra

Shopping, followed by lunch at Galeria Gourmet

without beverages.

Dinner at Rio S

Day 6 - Return

Breakfast at Hotel. After breakfast, transfer to the

airport for your next destination.

100 participants

Days

Nights

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DAY 1 > arrival day

> Meet and greet at Rio International airport with

English local tour guides to assist passengers.

> Escorted transfer from airport to hotel by deluxe

air-conditioned motor-coaches.

> Welcome drink at hotel - The “Caipirinha”, a ty-

pical Brazilian national drink, is made of sugar ca-

ne liqueur, sugar and ice cubs. Served at the check

in area, it is our way of saying “Welcome to Brazil”.

• Suggestions for check in at hotel:

> 02 Samba trio and 06 mullato dancing girls dur-

ing check-in at hotel – Total of 12 components.

Welcome banner at the hotel welcoming group

in Rio.

• Suggestion for a welcome dinner at hotel –

“Latin Night“ – In private for group.

During dinner, back ground music. During desert

and coffee DJ playing music. After the small pause,

music show with Caribbean music that will take

around 01h30.

Band with 12 components dressing typical clothes

and 06 couples dancing with the Caribbean band

is making their presentation.

> Room at Sheraton Hotel Rio & Towers

Current rates, subject to change:

> Rental of the room = free of charge if group is

accommodated at Hotel and if dinner is reserved

in the room.

> 01 hour cocktail (hot + cold cuts – 04 options for

each one).

> Beverage during cocktail (01 hour service) - Mine-

ral water, soft drink, beer, fruit cocktail.

> Map buffet dinner hotel without beverages

> Room at Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Hotel

Current rates, subject to change:

> Rental of the room = free of charge if group is

accommodated at Hotel and if dinner is reserved

in the room.

> 01 hour cocktail (hot + cold cuts – 04 options for

each one)

> Beverage during cocktail (01 hour service) - Min-

eral water, soft drink, beer, fruit cocktail.

> Map buffet dinner hotel without beverages.

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DAY 2 > > 06h30 – 10h30- Breakfast at hotel’s restaurant

• Suggestion for tables - Sponsor Company small

flags (flags must be either sent to us )

HD Jeep Tour Tijuca Forest and Corcovado with

BBQ lunch at Oásis Restaurant without Beverages .

Following hotel pick up in convertible, jeeps, we

will make our way to Corcovado Mountain, locat-

ed in the Tijuca Atlantic Forest, the largest urban

forest in the world and home of the famed Christ

the Redeemer statue- recently elected as one of

the 7 winners of the “New Wonders of the World”

contest.

We will stop at the Dona Marta Belevedere and

Corcovado to see admire the views. We will then

take Paineiras road and stop at Tijuca Forest,

where we will embark on a trail up to the Casca-

tinha Falls. We will take Canoas Road and pass

along Pepino beach and return to the hotel Obs:

Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, access to the

Corcovado is through the Sumaré Road. After

lunch, return to hotel

Oásis BBQ Restaurant

BBQ restaurant, offers the best to the barbecue.

Present in its menu a variety of cuts and orders of

extreme good quality which pleases the most de-

manding tastes. Besides skank, lamb, spare ribs,

sirloin with cheese and many other cuts, still offer

chicken, prok ribs and etc .. In the buffet, a varie-

ty of foods made with high-quality fresh ingredi-

ents which increases the pleasure of eating the

meat. But they do not offer only salads, also of-

fers cheese, cold huts, bread, crackers, shrimp,

octpus, cod and many other dishes that goes to

the table such as cheese pastry, fried bananas,

italian porridge and much more. If you are not suf-

fed enough, the dessert tray will certainly please

even the most demanding taste

Dinner at Máriu’s Crustáceos - Beverages not in-

cluded.

This unique and informal restaurant carries on the

tradition and quality of its name with its excellent

buffet of antipastos, fresh pasta with seafood as

well as a large variety of fresh and grilled seafood

served in the famous “rodízio” (all-you-can-eat)

style.

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DAY 3 > > 06h30 – 10h30- Breakfast at hotel’s restaurant

FD Tour Tropical Islands with lunch without bever-

ages

Round trip transfers and boat tour provided in pri-

vate for the group

Additional option to include 01 Samba Trio and 03

mullatos during the boat tour

Additional option to include beverages during

boat tour and during lunch on the island – Mineral

water, soft drinks, beer and caipirinha

TROPICAL ISLAND

The tour begins with an early morning trip down

the coast of Rio to the small fishing village of Ita-

curuca 75 km from Rio. Participants then board

a fully-equipped, two-masted schooner for a

leisurely cruise on the sparkling, calm, emerald-

green waters of Sepetiba Bay, dotted with over

200 lush tropical isles. Stops are made for swim-

ming in the crystal clear waters before proceeding

to the main island for a tropical-style buffet lunch.

There is plenty of time set aside for sunbathing,

swimming and relaxing before heading back to the

mainland. You return to Rio about 18:00 hours.

> 19h30 – 22h30 - Map buffet dinner hotel without

beverages – In private for group

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DAY 4 >

> 06h30 – 10h30- Breakfast at hotel’s restaurant

HD Sugar Loaf Tour with BBQ lunch at Porcão Ipa-

nema without beverages. Afer lunch, return to hotel.

• SUGAR LOAF

Sugar Loaf, in the Urca district, is ten minutes from

Copacabana. The cable car trip is in two stages:

The first goes to Urca Hill, 220 metres high, and

then a short walk to the other side leads you to

the second station for the next part of the ride, up

to the top of Sugar Loaf itself. The top of Sugar

Loaf, 396 metres high, has been landscaped and

includes several pathways and a bar. It can be

visited in less than two hours. To extend this into

a half-day tour, combine visiting Sugar Loaf with

a tour of the centre of Rio. In the centre you can

see many beautiful historic buildings amongst the

bustle of an active business centre.

Capoeira and Samba Lessons on a private salon at

hotel – Duration 02h00

05 couples playing capoeira + 04 tipycal “ baian-

inhas”. They will give capoeira and samba lessons.

At night, departure for Pocket Show and cocktail at

Cidade do Samba

Group will arrive at Cidade do Samba and will be

received by some persons playing samba.

A coordinator from Cidade do Samba will take

group to a small tour to present what is Cidade do

Samba. After this presentation group will proceed

to the place where the cocktail and the pocket

show will happen, that is in one of the “ Barracões

“ – That is one of the gates from Cidade do Samba.

Cocktail starts as soon as group arrives at bar-

racão – Included during cocktail beverages such

as: Mineral water, beer, fruit cocktail, soft drinks

abd caipiitnhas.The pocket carnival show takes

around 00h40 of presentation and there are 40

integrants making this presentation. The whole

event takes around 03h00.

About pocket show

Clients will be presented by the real and typical

Brazilian music - Independent dancers performing

Brazilian rhythm to warm up the audience Meren-

gue/Gafieira/Forro/Axe music).

The beginning of the show will start right away

with the queen of Samba school drums bringing

in with the glamour of carnival as it is at samba

school parade (10 musicians).

Considered “The Greatest Show on Earth”, Car-

nival is an integral part of Brazilian life and one

of life’s greatest celebrations. Our presentation

of this festive event offers a vivacious show of

samba and pageantry encompassing the most

outstanding elements of Carnival, including the

unique Samba instruments, 2 Carnival costumes

winners from the previous year’s Carnival Cos-

tume Contest and great mulatto dancers, for a to-

tal of about 40 performers.

Duration of the Carnival Show: 00h40 minutes

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• Cidade do Samba

Samba City is the latest tourist attraction in Rio de

Janeiro, occupying an area of 114.000 sq. meters,

built in the port district by the City Hall, at Rua

Rivadávia Corrêa 60, Gamboa, a district neighbor-

ing downtown.

There is a reason for this choice of location for the

thematic city, since it is here, considered to be “Sa-

cred Ground”, that the Carioca samba was born.

The triangle, which includes the districts of Saúde,

Santo Cristo and Gamboa has a great concentration

of the City´s popular culture, notably the personali-

ties and entities, linked to the Carioca Carnaval.

The design of Samba City forms a geometrical fig-

ure, with factories surrounding the main square.

They seem like parts of a group, linking hands,

forming a large circle. It is as if the world of the sam-

ba were embracing its ancestors, who were around

here during the 17th and 18th centuries, bringing

the art of African dance and music, to be incorpo-

rated today to Brazilian cultural traditions.

The thematic city will transform Samba School ac-

tivities into a permanent practice. More than a tour-

ist attraction, Samba City has become a production

center of genuine Brazilian art.

• THE FACTORIES OF SAMBA

Gates measuring 10m wide by 7.5m high allow the

passage of the allegoric floats fully assembled.

Sewing ateliers, hat fashioning room, adornment

room and the workshops for polystyrene and fiber

glass modeling are located on the highest floor of

2.700m.

A cargo elevator services all four stories.

The 12m high ceiling ( void ) assure that the allego-

ries can be assembled in their real size.

From an outside sidewalk, the visitor will go

through all factories, watching the allegories con-

struction from an 8m high balcony.

• THE FORCES OF NATURE SHOW

> Conception, screeplay and art direction: CARLIN-

HOS DE JESUS, choreographer.

> Atelier and Set Designs directed by: MILTON

CUNHA.

> Musical direction: JORGE CARDOSO.

> IMPORTANT to mention that each year they

change show’s name.

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DAY 5 >

> 06h30 – 10h30- Breakfast at hotel’s restaurant.

• HD Shopping tour – Barra Shopping, followed by

lunch at Galeria Gourmet without beverages

After lunch, return to hotel – Duration 06h00 in-

cluding time for lunch.

• Dinner and music at Rio Scenarium

> Rio Scenarium

www.rioscenarium.com.br

> Rental of one of the rooms in private for the group

– Located on the second floor on the annex room

from 20h00 to 23h00. Important to mention that

this option must happen on Tuesday, wednesday

or Thursday. On Fridays and Saturdays we just

verify as it is very difficult to get this confirmation.

Sundays and Mondays Rio Scenarium is closed.

Also this time must be respected.

> Hot canapés ( cuts )

> Hot dish : Penne ( pasta ) with 02 sauses : Toma-

toes and cheese.

> Beverages included : Beer, caipirinha, soft drinks

and mineral water – During the whole event.

> DJ playing music for the group to dance – The DJ

plays national music such as MPB, chorinho, samba.

> Duration – 03h00 of event. After 23h00 the annex

will open for other persons that are at Rio Scenar-

ium, that means this room will not be anymore in

private just for the group.

It is immense and there are various different areas,

decorated with items from the collections of an

tiques (bicycles, glasses, furniture, dolls, crock-

ery and suitcases) are scattered around creating

a magical scenario. Samba and chourinho music

shows take place here religiously. As for the food

you can choose from plates of cold cuts and cheese,

cassava with sun – dried beef and cod croquettes.

Beer Skol, Antartica, Brahma and Heinekein.

Does not have draft beer.

About Rio Scenarium

It is immense and there are various different areas,

decorated with items from the collections of an-

tiques (bicycles, glasses, furniture, dolls, crock-

ery and suitcases) are scattered around creating

a magical scenario. Samba and chourinho music

shows take place here religiously.

Known worldwide, Rio Scenarium owes its success

to great live Brazilian music and one of the most

unusual and attractive ambiences in Rio de Janeiro.

The laidback bar and casa de shows attracts a mix

of locals and foreigners.

Rio Scenarium stands out among Rio de Janeiro

bars, as it helped trigger a renovation trend in

Lapa, a historic district with a strong musical and

nightlife tradition dating back to the first half of the

twen-tieth century.

One of the amazing things about Rio Scenarium

is how spacious it is. Four buildings were joined

to create it. The two top floors overlook the dance

floor and stage at ground level, allowing you to

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talk to friends without shouting and still listen to

the music.

Antiques are everywhere. There are collections of

all kinds - clocks, scooters, radios, mannequins -

lining every wall and corner.

The atmosphere is laidback, with singles, families,

large groups and couples. There’s not a general-

ized pick-up attitude.

Pros

• Great Brazilian music - samba, forró and gafieira

• Vintage décor with over 10,000 antiques

• Spacious venue has three floors

General description

• Rio Scenarium - Pavilhão da Cultura is one of

several nightlife options in Pólo Cultural Novo Rio

Antigo.

• Reserve a table near the stage and dance floor at

ground level or sit in one of many groups of furni-

ture on the other floors

• Dancing at Rio Scenarium is mainly for partners.

Very skilled locals and beginner couples share the

floor.

• Forró (northeastern dance) from 2:30a on every

Saturday and Sunday.

• Shows: Tues-Fri at 7p and 10p ; Sat at 8p and

10p. Reservations are a must so you don’t face a

long line at the door.

• Open Tue-Thu from 6:30p, Fri from 9p and Sat

from 8p. Price at the door

About Lapa

Cradle of Rio’s bohemian traditions, the district

also displays some of the city’s richest architectural

assemblage

Lapa, the district of the Arcos (aqueduct arches),

is the only one in Rio that can aggregate various

musical trends without obfuscating any genre or

artist. It is a stage for samba lyrics, for Northeast-

ern sounds and the modernity of electronic music.

There, in downtown Rio, along Mem de Sá, Riachul-

eo and Lavradio streets, they all co-exist in perfect

harmony.

Since the early 50s Lapa has been one of the ma-

jor references for nightlife in Rio. With its famous

cabarets and restaurants, it was then known as the

“Montmartre Carioca”, frequented by the cream of

the artistic, intellectual, political and diplomatic cir-

cles. To this day Lapa throbs with life. City Hall has

already restored part of the district, preserving as

much as possible of the original architecture from

the beginning of the 20th century, which character-

izes the place. Visually it is a collection of histori-

cal constructions such as the Arcos da Lapa (Lapa

Arches), Passeio Público (Public Promenade), Es-

cola Nacional de Música (National Musica School)

and Igreja de N. Sra. Da Lapa (Church of Our Lady of

Lapa), veritable icons of Old Rio.

But it is when night falls that Lapa shows why it has

established itself as a cultural attraction of Rio. Sala

Cecília Meireles (Cecília Meireles Hall), considered

to be the best venue for chamber music concerts

in the city, shares the street with bar Asa Branca,

where the malandro (bohemian rascal) goes for

popular music. Bars such as Semente and do Er-

nesto feature the most carioca version of the sam-

ba, the chorinho. Those who favor rodas de samba

(ring samba) should visit Emporium 100 and Rio

Scenarium, which are antique stores during the

day. The same musical styles are also present in

Carioca da Gema, Casa da Mãe Joana and Dama da

Noite.

The beats of house, techno and other modern

rhythms, as well as shows with major MPB (Bra-

zilian Popular Music) artists, can be enjoyed at

Fundição Progresso and often at open-air events

under one of the arches that is used as both roof

and setting. While restaurants such as Nova Cape-

la, Monoel e Joaquim and Bar Brasil guarantee to

cater for the gastronomic needs of the night.

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DAY 6 > > 06h30 – 10h30- Breakfast at hotel’s restaurant

Day at leisure

> Meet and greet at hotel with English local tour

guides to assist passengers for transfer to airport.

Escorted transfer from airport to hotel by deluxe

air-conditioned motor-coaches

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> Beach kit: one customized towel, t-shirt, Brazil-

ian sun lotion and Brazilian Havaianas© flip-flops

Caipirinha kit.

> Corporate merchandising: We may use merchan-

dising material for all events, both indoor and

outdoor.

TEASURES

> Samba Parade Kit: confetti, Samba CD, Samba

school t-shirt, custom.

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Sheraton Hotel Rio & TowersThe only hotel located directly on the beach, the Sheraton Rio boasts luxury accommoda-tions for the business traveler and vacationer alike. All of its 497 ocean view guest rooms and 60 suites have been exquisitely decorat-ed for the utmost in comfort and first-rate in-ternational standards, offering breathtaking views of the sun-baked beaches of Ipanema and Leblon and of the nearby hills. Designed to delight every taste, the hotel’s restaurants and bars combine flavorful local cuisine with delectable international flare in a variety of warmly casual and elegant settings. The Rio Sheraton is home to several shops, a

sauna, a health club and three floodlit ten-nis courts, plus a large swimming pool area with two swimming pools that provide the perfect backdrop for cocktails and special themed dinners. The International-quality business facilities, with 14 meeting rooms, an amphitheater and a poolside area, can ac-commodate groups from 10 to 1,000 persons for large conventions, banquets, cocktail re-ceptions and small meetings. The Business Meeting Center on the top floor has six meet-ing rooms enhanced with panoramic ocean views, modern technology and professional support services.www.sheraton-rio.com

HOTELS

Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Ideally situated between Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, the deluxe 5-star Sofitel Rio captures the spirit of the city while re-taining the attentive high-quality service that pervades all Sofitel hotels. Well-appointed rooms and suites boast a warm, sophisti-cated décor, enhanced by state-of-the-art communications tools. All of the hotel’s 388 guest quarters (355 rooms and 33 suites), have a private balcony, with most of them facing the sea. The hotel’s two restaurants

are known for their outstanding local and in-ternational cuisine; special pool-side meals by the hotel’s two sparkling 5th floor swim-ming pools offers spectacular views of Copa-cabana Beach. The Sofitel Rio also offers one of the city’s best hotel convention centers, with 10 meeting rooms, ranging in capacity from 15 to 900 persons, as well as a full fit-ness center and a complete business center with secretarial services.www.accorhotels.com.br