There are two seat types at the Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro: Numbered Seats and Grand Stand.

Grand Stand seats are big, open air (bleachers or "arquibancadas") that offer seating with no allocated seat numbres. You can choose the area within your section, as high as you want, sit wherever you can.

Allocated/numbered seats are either in boxes or in numbered chairs. All the tickets in sector 9 (the "tourist" sector) are also allocated with a numbered seat.

Numbered chairs are right in front of the samba run-way, placed on escalated steps for better viewing. They are much more expensive and we only sell them on special requests, they are located in front of sectors 12 and 13. All of them are allocated and only the person with the right ticket can take them.

Ticket prices for normal bleacher seats in the Sambadrome on Special Group nights can be priced from R$80 to R$500 (US$50 to US$312.50), VIP Cabins, or Covered Boxes, seating (including open bar, buffet - dinner, dessert and more) and scalped tickets can be much more expensive (starting at US$2,500.00).

For extroverted ones, there is also the possibility for tourists to buy a costume and parade ("Fantasias") along the dancers in one of the samba schools.

Tickets can be reserved now by authorised dealers, but they are released as vouchers to be exchanged for the actual entry tickets a few days before Carnaval. This is done so as to avoid false replication of the tickets and for security reasons.

Riobookings exchange these vouchers for you and you are provided with the actually magnetic entry ticket in Rio de Janeiro before the night of the parade. For this reason tickets are unable to be sent out before this time, instead they become available to you in Rio de Janeiro via pick-up at our agency or choose to have them delivered.