Rio Carnival Costumes

Rio Carnival Costumes 2010 Samba Parade

Do also participate in the Rio Samba Parade and march with a samba school in the Sambodromo in a 2010 Rio carnival costume.

This is the real thrill, an unparalleled experience - to parade in a beautiful costume, to the heartbreaking beats of samba, on the biggest "stage" in the world. People who "just" watch the parade say it is a definite once in a life-time event. People who parade in it want to do it every year.

Our unique, one of a kind package lets you live all the emotion and excitement of this special celebration. Imagine yourself parading with one of Rio's fabled "Samba Schools", singing the samba and dancing the rhythms of Carnival like a true native with thousands of people watching.  Millions of others following every school through their own TV’s.  It’s a high energy event that you will certainly remember forever. The warming up time (concentracao) in which you prepare to enter is a great experience.

Costumes are already up for sale with us. All carnival costumes packages include assistance with English speaking guide and roundtrip transfers from Copacabana. If you prefer to just buy a costume and go parade on your own, our sister site www.riocostumes.com has dozens of costumes for you to choose from.

Go ahead and order your costume for 2010 Carnival now.
we are accepting orders before december 28, 2009..

We will have a group parading on Saturday February 13th with the A-League, which is part of the schools that are competing for a place among the Special League Samba schools on the following year. It's half of the price if you compare it with the Special League Samba Schools and just as fun.

We will also parade on Sunday February 14th and Monday February 15th, with the Special Group. Our costumes include transportation from and to the Sambodrome as well as English speaking guided assistance.

To be able to participate you only have to

1. buy a costume, which will serve as your "ticket" to march with a school.
2. go to the meeting point of your school at the right time (about 1.5-2 hours before your school's parading time) in your costume. You do not need to attend any rehearsals. You will understand how to march just following the others and participating in the school's warm-up before entering the Avenue.
   

You will be in a specific wing of your costume of a particular samba school in support of which you will be parading. Read and learn more about Rio Samba Parade costumes and learn your samba song.

How to choose your costume

• Our packages include roundtrip transfers from Copacabana.
  
  
• Select the costume that you want. It's your ticket to march with the school.
  
  
• When purchasing your Carnival costume, we will need to get some measurements from you such as SHOE SIZE and CLOTHING SIZE S/M/L/XL. You will be contacted in time in order to provide us with that piece of information.
  
  
• You will be contacted by our Ticket Center staff, if we have any questions and to give you further instructions.
  
  
• On parade night you will be transported to the Sambodrome warming up area (concentracao) and, in the company of our guide and fellow members of "Escola de Samba", you will participate in the unforgettable parade that is Carnival in Rio. By the way, the parade itself lasts approximately 50 minutes. Each school has 90 minutes to cross the runaway.

Read and learn more about Rio Samba Parade costumes and learn your samba song.

How to get there

If you have acquired the costume to parade on your own with www.riocostumes.com or elsewhere, this is our suggestion for you: The best and easiest way is by taxi or by subway. (It is fun to arrive by metro. You will see lots of fellow paraders in costumes). Both are safe and leave you very close to the Sambodromo when all other traffic comes to a still-stand around the Sambodromo and in almost the whole city. Avoid taking busses there.

You have to arrive about two hours before the parading time of your school, for the preparation and to meet your wing's president and to see where the wing will be within the school. It is really interesting and worthwhile to move around and see the huge, richly decorated floats from so close, mix with the artists and models who will be on the floats, meet the older people from your school or the drummers who will be getting ready for their triumphal times. All samba schools meet on Rua Presidente Vargas, which is right next to the Sambodromo at the beginning of the samba run-way, near Sector 1. You only have to know the side of your school (whether it is the side of the even or odd-numbered sectors)

You only have to find your wing. It will be very easy, around 100 other people wearing the same costume like you. Look out for and report to your president.

You can take almost any place within the wing and you will soon form single lines. You should try at this time to stay next to your friends.

Try to arrive already wearing your costume. No problem to have it on, on the streets or in the subway or taking a taxi, everyone does it. There are no changing rooms or any lockers there.

After the school's paraders arrive, the school will prepare itself and complete the final touches for the big moment of entering the Avenue.

You can arrive much earlier if you like; it is possible and also great fun just to wonder, look and marvel around there.
Your president will make sure that you wear your costume right and you will quickly learn the little steps and ways how the paraders march through the Avenue.

You can have other people with you, who can take pictures and have fun with you and who could later take your unnecessary stuff. They only have to leave at a later stage, when you will pass the gates, after which moment no more way in or out. Just don’t arrive late and miss the closing of the gates for your school.