Event Dates
From: Sunday, December 28, 2025
To: Sunday, December 28, 2025
Enjoy a unique daytime escape built around water, rhythm and New Year energy as two major gay party names combine to host Rio’s biggest NYE pool party.
Enjoy a unique daytime escape built around water, rhythm and New Year energy as two major gay party names combine to hosot Rio’s biggest NYE pool party.
- Visiting Rio for NYE? Stay at the Emiliano Rio, a stylish boutique hotel with an elevated infinity pool overlooking Copacabana, featuring nature-inspired interiors, refined service and spacious rooms.
The Event
- Next Edition: Sunday 28th December – WET AFFAIR + QUERO MAIS POOL PARTY
- Two worlds unite in Wet Affair + Quero Mais, creating a Pool Party at the biggest electronic festival of New Year’s Eve, TNW´s Carioca Festival
- Enjoy a unique Sunday Funday experience and embrace the Rio heat with poolside stages, cocktails, speedo clad boys, inflatables and sexy dancers.
- Mix and mingle on the poolside dancefloor with a New Year crowd from across Brazil and abroad.
- Featuring a stellar lineup of world class DJs. Dance to a mix of circuit and melodic electronic sets built for daytime energy.
- The party kicks off at 2 pm and takes over Sítio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro.
- Elevate your NYE stay in Rio at the Hotel Fasano Rio de Janeiro – Ipanema, rated “Excellent” by guests. The “Travel Proud”- certified hotel, with a sleek rooftop pool looking out over Ipanema and Arpoador, is a short walk from the gay beach at the end of Rua Farme de Amoedo.
The Lineup
- International guest Mauro Tommasi leads the lineup, backed by a potent mix of Carioca Festival regulars, RRodriguez, John Wilber, Pattric Bern, Van Müller, Filipe Guerra, Ohanna, Má Rodrigues, Will Capitão and Giulia Moretti.
The Venue
- Sítio das Pedras – A private green estate with stone paths, open terraces and pockets of shade around landscaped lawns.
- The pool forms the centre of the event, surrounded by decking, shaded spaces and raised points used for dancers and FX.
- Situated inland near the Tijuca Forest ridge. A taxi from Ipanema takes around 35 to 45 minutes, depending on traffic, following Estrada das Canoas towards Jacarepaguá.
- It’s quiet, residential and green, giving the party a retreat-like feel away from Rio’s beachfront districts.
Recommended Hotels in Rio
Here are the Hotels we recommend that keep you close to all the action
Orla Copacabana Hotel, Rio Othon Palace, Atlantis Copacabana Hotel, Hotel Fasano
Where to stay close to all the gay bars.
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Windsor Miramar is the hotel our editors
love right in the heart of Copacabana
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Carioca NYE Festival, Instagram
Most of Rips gay bars are located in Ipanema and Copacabana. Ipanema’s gayest nightspot is on the beach block of Rua Teixeira de Melo, next to Farme.
Along Copacabana beach there is a traditionally gay-friendly area known as Bolsa, near Lido. Hustlers are pretty much part of the scene, and you should keep a good hold on your wallet
Address: Avenida Atlântica, Copacabana, Zona Sul do Rio de Janeiro,
Address: Av. Vieira Souto, 80 - Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Av. Atlântica 1702 Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Av. Atlântica, 4122 - Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Rua Sacadura Cabral, 135 – Saúde/Gamboa
Address: Rua do Riachuelo, 97 – Lapa/Centro
Address: Rua Teixeira de Melo 31 Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Rua Raul Pompéia 102, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Rua do Resende 82 A - Lapa - Centro, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Av. Gomes Freire, 599 - Lapa, Rio de Janeiro
Address: R. Teixeira de Melo, 47 - Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Av. Rodrigues Alves, 293 - Saúde, Rio de Janeiro
Address: R. Riachuelo, 20 - Lapa, Rio de Janeiro
Address: R. do Lavradio, 163 - Lapa, Rio de Janeiro
Address: R. Pedro Ernesto 5, Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Av. Princesa Isabel, 21 - Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Av. Niemeyer, 101 - Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
Address: R. Joana Angélica, 40 - Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Praça da República, 141 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Rua Miguel Lemos 51 Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Address: R. dos Inválidos, n39 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Av. Atlântica 1850 Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Av. Nossa Sra. de Copacabana, 1417 - Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Avenida Atlântica, in front of Copacabana Palace (near Rua Rodolfo Dantas), Copacabana, Rio
Address: Avenida Atlântica, Kiosk 63, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Address: R. Cândido Mendes, 117 - Glória, Rio de Janeiro
Address: R. Teixeira de Melo 16, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
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