Ilha Grande, the home to Lopes Mendes, is not where you go looking for parties and rowdy nightlife. As Frommer's puts it, “If you came looking for nightlife, then you made a wrong turn at Albuquerque.” There are no motor vehicles, banks, and ATM machines, either, although there have been rumors of an imminent ATM installation somewhere in the island's main settlement. Maybe it will happen one day, but for now, change money in Rio.