By Pablo De Llano Neira
(El País)
What really makes the Copacabana Palace special, the five-star hotel with 100 years of history and a multitude of scandalous and glamorous anecdotes, is the feeling of well-being you get experience while having breakfast while chatting with Luiz Filipe Ribeiro about O Fenômeno (Ronaldo), Gaúcho (Ronaldinho) or Endrick, the new sensation of Brazilian football.
Ultimately, if this high-end hotel is so special, it is for something very simple: this generous, carioca spirit, which exudes here and is found everywhere in Rio de Janeiro, which cannot be
packaged
as a product, nor
sell it
as an experience.
It is this sunny joy, the warm and pleasant mood of the young waiter Luiz Filipe Ribeiro when he talks about football for the umpteenth time, when he tells how the tapioca rolls are prepared that you savor: that is what comes first place.
Then comes everything else.
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