Copacabana Palace closes amid pandemic and has only Jorge Ben Jor as a guest.
Only two residents will remain at the traditional Rio de Janeiro hotel: Andrea Natal, general manager of the Belmond Group in Brazil, which manages the establishment, and singer-songwriter Jorge Ben Jor, who has lived there since 2018.
247 - The iconic Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro will temporarily close its doors starting this Friday, the 10th, due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is the first time this has happened in its nearly 97-year history. Reopening is scheduled for the end of May.
According to the newspaper report The GlobeThe last guests have already left the Copacabana Palace. Only two residents will remain at the hotel: Andrea Natal, general manager of the Belmond Group in Brazil, which manages the establishment, and the singer and songwriter Jorge Ben Jor, who has lived there since 2018.
Closing the doors doesn't mean everything inside the hotel will shut down. Minimal maintenance will be carried out. A team of housekeepers, for example, will be responsible for cleaning all 293 rooms every day, opening doors and windows in the morning and closing them at night.
In addition to the Copacabana Palace, 60 other hotels in the city are also closed, impacted by the new coronavirus pandemic.