About this site

Why this exists

Almost every page that answers “how do I get from Rio to Paraty?” is published by someone who profits from a particular answer. Aggregators price A to B and stop there. Tour operators recommend what they sell. The result is that a traveller with a genuinely simple question — which of these five options is right for my group? — has to reconstruct the answer from a dozen conflicting pages.

Costa Verde Private exists to do that reconstruction properly for one specific stretch of coast: Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis, Ilha Grande and Paraty. We publish the reasoning in full, for free, and we say out loud when the right answer is a bus.

Who publishes this

Costa Verde Private is operated by Sri Lanka Taxi Charter Service International Limited, a Hong Kong-registered company. Our registered details are on the privacy policy, and hello@costaverdeprivate.com reaches us directly.

That is the corporate answer, and on its own it should not persuade you of anything. The question worth asking about a transport site is narrower: where did these numbers come from, and would we know if they changed? The rest of this page answers that, because it is the part you can actually hold us to.

How we check the information

Our working rule is that a figure gets published only if we can name where it came from and when we read it. In practice that means four things.

We go to the operators first

Where a bus or boat company publishes its own schedule, that is what we use. For this coast the primary sources are Viação Costa Verde Transportes for the Rio–Angra dos Reis–Paraty corridor, Viação Colitur for the Angra–Paraty leg, CCR Barcas for the traditional Ilha Grande ferry, and the crossing operators at Conceição de Jacareí and Angra dos Reis for the boats. Where an operator publishes nothing usable in English, we say which secondary source we relied on instead.

We separate what we verified from what we were told

Aggregator sites and booking platforms are useful for establishing that a service exists and roughly what it costs. They are not a schedule. So fares taken from them appear as attributed ranges, never as a single confident number, and figures that come from traveller reports on public forums are labelled as exactly that — you will see phrasing like “reported by travellers” in several guides, and it is there on purpose.

Every guide shows its sources and its date

Any guide that quotes a schedule, a journey time or a fare carries a Sources & last checked block at the foot of the page. It lists each source, marks whether it is the operator or a third party, and gives the date that source was read. If a page has no such block, it is because it contains no time-sensitive figures.

You should be able to check our work without taking our word for anything. That is the whole point of publishing the dates.

We update when the facts move, and we date-stamp it

Brazilian bus and boat timetables change seasonally, at short notice, and for weather. When we find that something we published is now wrong, we correct the page and move its last-updated date forward rather than quietly editing it. We re-read the underlying sources before each high season — December to March is both the busiest travel window on this coast and the period when schedules shift most — and the date of the last full review is shown in the footer of every page.

None of this makes us a live timetable, and we do not want to be mistaken for one. Every guide tells you where to reconfirm before you travel, because a boat that ran at 15:00 last month is not a promise about next Tuesday.

What we sell, and what we do not

The service on offer today is a free transport plan: you send an itinerary, we send back a leg-by-leg recommendation. There is no payment on this site, no instant booking, and no account to create.

Where a leg genuinely warrants a private transfer, availability and pricing are checked separately before anything is confirmed. We do not receive commission from the bus or ferry operators named in our guides.

What we are not claiming yet

This is a new site. We would rather be visibly incomplete than quietly overstated, so:

• We have no customer reviews, and we will not manufacture any.
• We do not describe a fleet, a driver roster, driver language skills or vehicle standards, because those have not been verified.
• We do not advertise a support phone line or round-the-clock availability.
• We do not claim to be able to arrange transport outside Rio de Janeiro state. Advice on longer routes, yes; a claim that we can sell them, no.
• We do not publish our own prices, because local partner arrangements are still being confirmed.

Each of those lines is a commitment. When one of them changes, it will change here first — with the evidence attached.

Corrections

If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or misleading, please tell us and we will fix it and update the last-checked date. That includes operators who find their own schedules misquoted here.

hello@costaverdeprivate.com