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4.5 of 5
Av. Tamanaco con Av. Naiguata. El Rosal, Caracas 1060, Venezuela
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Hotel Centro Lido
Ranked #4 of 77 hotels in Caracas
4.0 of 5 stars 37 Reviews
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Menlo Park, California
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52 reviews 52 reviews
Reviews in 47 cities Reviews in 47 cities
188 helpful votes 188 helpful votes
“Nice hotel in a safe neighborhood”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 April 2011
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I stayed at this hotel for 4 nights over Easter. The hotel is attached to a small mall, which was closed the whole time. It is located in the middle of the business district where there is no retail stores other than the mall, very few restaurants, hardly any people walking around, but a lot of banks and embassies. One block away was Citibank ATM (the only one that gave me money with a Wells Fargo ATM card). The hotel has a business hotel feel. It is upscale, but not luxurious. For example in the bathroom the walls were tiled (not marble) and the shower head and fixtures were not high end. They were gold plated so they looked expensive. The shower had an insane water pressure. The bed linens had Hotel Lido stiched to them in gold. My room had two beds. The other one was very hard (typical to Latin America) and the other one softer. The rate included a breakfast buffet, which was a great deal since the official exhange rate is very expensive.
The hotel is mainly Spanish speaking. Only the main receptionist spoke English. The other staff did not. 3 out of 4 mornings we had a great waiter. One day the waiter gave us no service so I think the service depends on individuals. We walked to the nerby Embassy Suites to get some tourist information in English. They are more geared to a tourist with advertised tours and taxi rates posted. The Lido looks much nicer than the Embassy Suites. Loved that the Lido has a business center with free internet and 4 computers. The only negative about the hotel was that when we just checked in there was a noisy family in the room next to us and we asked to change rooms. You could hear everything through the walls. After we got a new room we had a great nights sleep.

  • Stayed April 2011, travelled with family
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Luxembourg
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33 reviews 33 reviews
Reviews in 29 cities Reviews in 29 cities
27 helpful votes 27 helpful votes
“Rather mediocre for a five star hotel”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 14 February 2011
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I had booked a VIP room through the hotel's website. You actually get the impression that the credit card details are only required to secure the booking, but the amount is debited upon making the reservation. When we tried to check in with the print-out, it took the receptionists (at a given moment, there were four of them) 20 minutes to retrieve the booking and to give us the room key.
The VIP room we had was huge, with a big flat screen TV which was not working as an unplugged cable had vanished behind the desk. A handyman fixed it in no time, yet I wonder why nobody checks the equipment before the guests arrive.
After a good night of sleep in a comfy bed, we were woken up at 8 a.m. by the maid who handed out the local newspaper we had never asked for. As she was there, I asked for some toilet paper, but it only materialized after I called the front desk an hour later. Is it too much to request from a top hotel to provide a spare roll in the bathroom?
As previous posters wrote, breakfast is substandard, front desk staff are moderately helpful and very moderately multilingual. As the booking confirmation stated that the use of the swimming pool was included, I asked were it was - just to be told that the hotel did not have any and that this feature probably related to their property on Isla Margerida!
On the positive side, there are two things: the safe neighbourhood and the excellent, typical marisqeria (seafood restaurant) just across the street!
In the unlikely event that I had to travel to Caracas again, I would definitely choose a different hotel.

  • Stayed February 2011, travelled as a couple
    • 2 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 3 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 3 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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Panama City, Panama
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17 reviews 17 reviews
Reviews in 6 cities Reviews in 6 cities
25 helpful votes 25 helpful votes
“Irresponsible, Terrible Staff, Terrible Supervisor..”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 29 January 2011
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Basicaly, I felt Insulted at this hotel and Left. Here is what happened:

We had a confirmed reservation and provided a local credit card with all the forms required by email, 2 weeks before arrival and had a confirmation that the rooms where already charged to the card. Our flight arraived late, 1am, we were checking inn and the front desk person told us the credit card provided did not cleared and that our reservation was cancelled that day at Noon. They did not informed us, no email, phonecall. Then the front desk person ask us that if we did not pay cash 6 nights in local currency or provided another local Credit Card, which we had none, just arriving from international Flight at 1am, she said we could not check inn and she would be kind enough to TRY and find us another hotel. As you all know, Caracas hotels usually fully booked and need 1 week ahead reservation. We explained our situation, it was THEIR fault, for not informing us of the event. For which we could have sent a person to pay in local currency Before arriving. but their inaction was such, that they did not care. They just cancelled the reservation, no big deal for them.
I finally talked the front desk Girl into calling her supervisor, which was in her house, in bed. She was extremely rude, angry we were bothering her that late into the night, and did not care for our case at all. I explained that this was completely their fault as to not notifying us before chekinn time of this problem, even though the hotel had all our phones and email contact. She did not even try to help, did not come to the hotel to see our problem, did not care.
The front desk girl was powerless and her supervisor refused to let us in.
I found this completely rude and left for another lousy hotel .

I would definitely not recommend this Hotel, staff simply dont care, talks to you extremely rude, I felt personally insulted by their rudeness and indifference. This should not happen to anyone, less when you are arriving so late and only care about getting some sleep.

  • Stayed January 2011, travelled on business
    • 2 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 3 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Miami Beach, Florida
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1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
“Excellent Service. Great Hotel”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 1 November 2010
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I stayed at the Hotel for 2 nights, it was great and very unique. The food and the service were excellent. The location is perfect, surrounded by malls and restaurants. Awesome gym!!!
I made my reservation online trough the website www.lidotel.com.ve which make the process of booking much easier than usual.
Next time I will book again in this Hotel. I definitely recommended.

  • Stayed October 2010, travelled on business
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 5 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
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Nyborg, Denmark
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16 reviews 16 reviews
Reviews in 7 cities Reviews in 7 cities
7 helpful votes 7 helpful votes
“Great hotel, service not that great....”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 October 2010
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person found this review helpful

Just stayed one night.
We had a great service checking in, we arrived early, so the hold oure bags and the room was ready around noon -1 pm.
BIG room, think it was a suiet, since it has 2 rooms (tv/sofa) and a big bedroom with desk and bathroom.
Last day of the Caracas trip and wanted to se another hotel in CCS, but we where getting a bit sick (flu), so we chose to stay in the room and have room service at night. Food okay.
The next morning we checked out. That is where the problem began.
I had booked in advance with my visa-card, as I normaly do. When arrived at the hotel, I told them that I wanted to pay in CASH, for the stay. The said no problem and we will have a look at it tomorrow when checking out. But, when checking out, the hotel had charged it from my visa-card, and no way i could make them "undo" it - even wrote to the administrater of the hotel, but not even a reply....
The story is, the hotel is owned by a group, when making a reservacion only you pay (only way to make a reservacion online) with a credit card, since I only have a nomal "venezuelan debit card" i used my int. visa card. The staff at the hotel, informs me after I'm truing to pay, that the only recive pay in cash if i walk in from the streat or for the room service! seems like almost everybody pays by card upfront.

Firts time in Venezuela, where I cant choose the way i want to pay. Never had a problem at any other hotels and it should NOT be a problem at a 4-5 star hotel in CCS.

The hotel all in all, is nice, but dos need to sound proof more - we where woken up at 5am, by the couple going at it in the room above us and the where not yelling...... :((

  • Stayed May 2010, travelled as a couple
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 5 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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Address: Av. Tamanaco con Av. Naiguata. El Rosal, Caracas 1060, Venezuela
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