Trem do Corcovado

i don't know what other are talking about great view from train. most of time you are staring at the tree and leaf nothing more. you get few nice views along the way, but you get same or better view from top. train move rather slow. price of train ride is for going up and down and entry to Christ the Redeemer. they ask for social distance at the station but they are packing the whole train. so you are 2cm from each others in the train seat. not so much for social distance. when door open everybody is rush to get inside the train. so they don't practice social distance. but they do ask for people to wear mask and they do temperature check. they spread alcohol on everybody's hand who are getting into station and train. so that is plus. people at the ticket booth speak English. bring your passport or copy of you passport. they ask you where are you from and ask for ID. they are able to move people fast. i did not have to wait too long. but i went there during mid afternoon on weekend. so there was not too many people were waiting on line.

Great twenty minute train ride to see a fantastic view of Rio. Important tip: think of booking train ticket before coming to the station. If there are a lot of visitors, as can happen often, there can be more than one hour of waiting time. When we were at the end of the year we had to wait for a couple of hours in the heat with small children. Otherwise think of coming early, before 10am. The additional advantage of that clouds can cover the Christ in the afternoon and hence there will be no view of the city from the top.

Bought tickets online. Got to the station half an hour early as the instructions said, but nobody would help. A lady, who appeared to work here because she was moving around the ropes, yelled at everyone if they tried to ask a question. Very rude ignorant people. Good job Brazil for making people feel welcome!!

Beware of long queues on the way back! We took the train of 17:20 and when arrived at the top, the queue for the way back started at the stairs all the way until the statue itself - it was ridiculous!! You could easily wait another 2hours to get back down.

We were fortunate to use the new trams. Seemed well organised and a great way to get to the top.