Caranda Hotel is placed on a very busy road in Braga, going "up" to the city enter.
The location itself is good: 10 minutes walking to the heart of the city, near some very good restaurants, few minutes from a cheap supermarket and with different parking place around it.

At arrival, I've been sent to park my car to the public parking space in front of Turismo Hotel (I think the managment is the same), with a "discount" card for my car stay (I think it was 4 euro/night). The park was so small that my car was not even able to stay in the designed area. At the reception, a middle-age man gave us the keys, in a very cold way, even not answering to the usual turistic questions (have you got a map? where is the city center?).

Ok, let's go to the room.. mhh.. well, the room itself was ok.. small, but for 45 euro I could not expect more.. but the sheets on the beds had holes by sigarette burns, window tent were plastic, dirty and not procecting from the light in the morning. Bathroom was old, with problem with the toilet water (not closing).
The reception, again, was not usefull at all.. they did not speak english (or seem to), and also with my Spanish, French and Italian I did not have better results. Note that this was the worst feeling I had all over the beautiful and friendly Portugal.

During our turistic trip, we use hotel just to sleep 6 hours in the night, so I did not have many requests.. but I'd like to sleep in a decent place.. in my opinion, this hotel does not worth the money I've paied. With some more money, you can find nicer hotels and you'll enjoy the beautiful Braga city in a better way!!

Good value hotel which is comfortable and everything works

The staff are friendly but English is nit their first language

Breakfast was good

Car parking was payable but roadside parking for free can be found in two minutes walk

The hotel is located ten - fifteen minute walk from town

To summarise will recommend and use when needing a hotel in Braga