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Rio Carnival Holiday

10 days from £5,035pp

(based on two people sharing & excluding flights)

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  • Carnival in Rio

Overview & Highlights

At Rio de Janeiro's Carnival, the world's most colourful festival, you'll have prime viewing sector 9 seats at the Samba School parade. After five days of fun move on to chic beach resort Buzios to relax.

Come to Rio and join the party. This bold, vibrant and fun-filled holiday will see you partying for 5 days at the world renowned Rio Carnival - the world's most colourful festival - then moving on to relax and unwind at chic beach resort Búzios.

The larger-than-life Rio Carnival 2025 begins on Friday 28th February. Our suggested Carnival holiday package begins in on Carnival Friday and spends five nights in the city as it erupts into party mode. You can find out more about the festival and why you should book your carnival tickets for 2025 with us here.

Street bands and parties, parades, fancy-dress balls, impromptu and planned concerts and gatherings spring up all over Rio during five days of Carnival. The parade of Samba Schools, in the purpose-built sambodromo, is the ultimate highlight, where the costumes, dancing and music of the competing schools whips the audience into a frenzy. One of our expert tour guides will accompany you to your seats in the well positioned Sector 9 and see you back to your hotel safely at the end.

This good value holiday includes the price of the tickets to the Rio Carnival parade for one of the 3 nights that parades will take place in 2025. We also include a guided excursion to the Christ the Redeemer statue on top of Corcovado mountain and there's free time to enjoy the fun in the city independently. When the excitement is abruptly extinguished on Ash Wednesday you travel along the coast to the chic beach resort Búzios, with 4 nights to relax and recover on a beautiful Atlantic Ocean bay.

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  • Open-top jeep tour to Christ the Redeemer statue, Corcovado Mountain
  • Tickets to the Carnival Parade at Rio's Sambadrome
  • Beach time in Buzios

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