I stayed there for 2 weeks with my boyfriend. We stayed in a double room, which was cleaned every day (no matter when we left; if it was late the maid called and asked if and when we want to get our room cleaned). I liked the hotel, but I have two main complaints. First of all, the beds were very uncomfortable and we were both waking up with pain in our backs. There was no double bed - there were actually 2 single beds put together and it was specially annoying because they were not glued/nailed to the floor and they were moving all the time.
My second complaint is the breakfast. There was practically nothing to choose from. They only had some bread rolls, small croissants (no filling), butter (with salt, the second week they also added butter without salt), 3 different jams, cornflakes (yes, just cornflakes, no oatmeal or anything else), ham and cheese. As for the drinks, they had juice and a coffee machine. And I just have to write something about that coffee machine, because it was a disaster. It had the following: coffee, white coffee (coffee with milk), cocoa, milk and hot water (tea: camomile and black tea). I love white coffee, so I tried it the first morning. It was absolutely disgusting. The second morning I tried cocoa. It didn't taste anything like cocoa and it was also disgusting. My boyfriend later told me that the coffee they used for the machine was not even made of coffee beans, but from something else that I don't remember the name of. Since it was a hotel and this kind of coffee is only popular in Portugal, I would expect it to be tourist-friendly and people should actually be able to drink the coffee that is made from coffee beans.
I didn't perticularly like their tea either (tasted differently), so I ended up buying my own tea and had it every morning. Bottom line is, I had to eat the exact same breakfast every single day - 2 or 3 croissants with either butter or jam with tea. I don't like cornflakes, I'm allergic to meat and I only eat about 3 different sorts of cheese. They could at least offer some fruit and yoghurt.
Another disappointing thing was that there was no fridge in the room. I didn't expect a big one, but it would be nice to have a small one just to put a couple of drinks in it. Luckily, they were kind enough to let us use the fridge at the reception, so that's a plus.
The internet was not free, but it was at least cheap (5eur for 24 hours), but it was very slow.
All in all, I recommend it only for a few nights and definitely not for couples. Overall, it's an average hotel with nice staff, except for one older guy at the reception, he was kind of slow with everything and needed a few moments to realize what we asked him (it was in Portuguese so it was not a language problem).
- Residencia Avenida Park Lisbon
