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Private Skip-The-Line Sugar Loaf Tour

Recommended by 90% of travelers
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 4 hours (approx.)
  • Pickup offered
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

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Overview

Ideal for travelers with limited time in Rio de Janeiro, this private tour provides a comprehensive overview of the city. Alongside a local guide, you’ll take a panoramic tour of downtown Rio and visit landmarks including Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Cathedral, and the Sambadrome. Check off one of the Marvelous City’s most popular attractions and ascend Sugar Loaf Mountain in a cable car for spectacular views of land and sea. On this private tour, which includes hotel pickup and drop-off, you’ll receive undivided attention from your guide.
  • Private sightseeing tour of Rio de Janeiro including a Sugar Loaf Mountain cable car ride
  • Tick off Rio de Janeiro landmarks including Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Cathedral, and the Sambadrome
  • Learn about the culture and history of the Marvelous City from a local guide
  • Ascend the iconic Sugar Loaf Mountain and absorb panoramic vistas for the summit
  • Receive undivided attention from a private guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off are included

What's Included

  • Bottled water
  • Professional guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Private tour
  • Transport by private vehicle
  • Gratuities
  • Fast Pass tickets for Sugar Loaf

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Pickup points

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Meeting point

  • Special Police Support Tourism - DEAT
    Av. Afrânio de Melo Franco, 159 - Leblon, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22430-600, Brazil

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Your tour begins with pickup at your Rio de Janeiro hotel, where you’ll board an air-conditioned vehicle reserved for your private party. As you begin a panoramic tour of the Marvelous City, so-called for its colorful culture, your guide offers insight into the history and culture of Rio de Janeiro. 

Visit highlights such as Maracana Stadium, where the opening match of the 1950 World Cup was hosted, and the metropolitan Rio de Janeiro Cathedral. See, too, the Sambradrome, which hosts the spectacular Rio Carnival, and gain local insight into downtown Rio.

Then, city tour complete, head to Sugar Loaf Mountain and board a cable car destined for the summit. Reigning supreme over the city, the iconic natural landmark offers incredible views of Ipanema and Copacabana Beach.

Disembark at the first stop to purchase snacks from a café and then complete the journey to the top. Your guide informs you of the mountain’s significance in Brazilian culture before you complete the return journey down the mountain and back to your hotel.
1

Sugarloaf Mountain

1 hour • Admission Ticket Not Included

2

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Sambodromo da Marques de Sapucai (Pass By)

3

Escadaria Selaron

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

4

Mosteiro De Sao Bento

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Wheelchair accessible, but only for groups of up to 4 passengers due to space limitations on the vehicle. The wheelchair will go folder on the drink.
  • Stroller accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

Reviews

4.6
based on 10 reviews
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great tour

Bostjan_M, Apr 2025
Gui was really great guide. Knows everything about history, sigts, giving help with translation etc.... And has great music choice in the car :)

Top guide for Sugarloaf especially for disabled.

lesley_w, Mar 2025
Carlos was excellent! I wanted to take him home with me. Very knowledgeable, passionate and easy to listen to about the history, politics and developments of Rio. I am slightly disabled and Carlos was empathtic and knew all the short cuts/disabled access to the top. If we had gone on our own we would have made a mess of it as the staff at Sugarloaf were nice but not particularly informative and directional. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and fully recommend a good tour guide to help learn and find the easy routes up.

Fantastic and fun day

Scott_F, Nov 2024
What a fantastic and fun day! Guilherme was my guide and he was great. Good communication. Timely. I used Jurema as interpreter. GUI hired her. Between the two, you could not ask for more. Sugarloaf is a place you must see and experience.

Rio Highlihts and Sugar Loaf Mountain

Nitin_K, Jan 2024
Great tour guide.Carlos was excellent, very friendly, knowledgeable and showed all the interesting places without rushing us .Highly recommended Carlos if you get chance to book him

Excellent tour, our guide helped us...

hannakpg, Feb 2018
Excellent tour, our guide helped us through the lineups.

This was perfect tour for us, a...

Anjali D, Jan 2018
This was perfect tour for us, a group of 5 people Note that the price reflects group price. We wanted short city tour with more time at Sugarloaf including Sunset. The owner/Guide accommodated our request. The pickup was on time. That day it was very hot in Rio. Vehicle was very comfortable and clean. The city tour included whatever we wanted to see in city and some of the must see attractions, recommended by owner/guide. Guide was English speaking and knowledgeable. This was perfect tour for us, a group of 5 people Note that the price reflects group price. We wanted short city tour with more time at Sugarloaf including Sunset. The owner/Guide accommodated our request. The pickup was on time. That day it was very hot in Rio. Vehicle was very comfortable and clean. The city tour included whatever we wanted to see in city and some of the must see attractions, recommended by owner/guide. Guide was English speaking and knowledgeable.

Not recommended

Montse_P, Jan 2026
The tour indicates that it is without queues, but two days before they will write to ask you to buy the fast track tickets. That is, it is not included in the tour price. We asked for a Spanish-speaking guide and when he arrived, he could barely say 4 words in Spanish. We lost more than 1 hour on tour, waiting for the guide to park... and a good time later waiting for her to buy some hawainas for her son!!! Amazing... Finally, the guide left us alone at the foot of the ceramic stairs, without giving us any explanation of its history and went to a parking lot. A great disappointment
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