ibis budget Porto Gaia 1 star

Simple straight forward, you get as per Promise.

Clean room, confortable bed.

As far as I know the Ibis chain is the only pet friendly hotel in Portugal. I travel in all Europe with my little mini schnauzer and always in Ibis . I know it by heart, it’s home for us. Staff is extremely professional friendly nice. Will be booking shortly for all our stops in our summer trip to Austria and back to Portugal. Parking is very important also because we don’t have to take everything from the car, just a small bag. For me it’s perfect!

Room clean, small but ok for the price. Very polite people working on reception.

Please make a good breakfast! It is not enough. Eags and bacon it is enough. Thank uou!

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Very nice and friendly staff. Warm welcome.

Nelson at the desk was kind and very helpful.

I stayed quite some times in this hotel, it ain't luxury but the relationship price - quality is very good. Very well located, but you must have a car when staying here. Close to the main motorway to Lisbon, as well as a nice Shopping Centre.

The air conditioning did not work. No light in the toilet. Besides, the rest worked without problems. Quiet room. Breakfast is modest, as in Ibis Budget, but you can be satisfied and eat. Service very nice.

I would like to thank Neuza to make by stay the best I have ever had in a hotel for years. She is professional, kind, she knows her job, she is a great human being. I would like to say thank you to Anna and Carlos. You make this hotel like a 5 stars' service.

Realizing after I had booked and prepaid for a 5 night stay that this hotel was not where I thought it was as I had got the bridges mixed up – not just across the river and a short walk from the historic city centre, I was anxious about the suitability of the chosen accommodation for visiting Porto for leisure purposes. Although our internet sites gave us slightly erroneous information, necessitating a river crossing by convenient ferry ( in hindsight a great / different way to arrive at a hotel) followed by hauling our bags up a steep hill for 15 minutes, the location of the hotel had its benefits. One could reach the city centre by bus – the bus stop a 10 walk from hotel or a better option was by hotel organized taxi service at a cost of Euro 5 However, our preferred choice was a pleasant 40 min stroll along the river bank walkway where we were stimulated by the never ending changing scenery. In the opposite direction with a 15 min walk we could reach a huge shopping centre open to midnight and with many great choices for eating inexpensively. We discovered a great traditional fishing village with wonderful seafood restaurants serving Portuguese specialties and a small bakery with local Portuguese tartes and pastries and with tasty coffee for 0.80 cents euro down that hill and a 10 min walk from our Ibis Budget hotel that served the most bitter coffee that we ‘enjoyed’ on our travels in our 2 months in Europe. Perhaps the benefit the most was its quiet location – a peaceful sanctuary away from the tourist crowds in central Porto. Breakfast at the hotel other than the coffee was good value. Check-in was prompt and with- out fuss. Our room was clean, comfortable and better than some Ibis branded hotels. Bathroom was generous size for Ibis budget. The bed most comfortable. The reception staff were always helpful, approachable , friendly and informative and deserve special praise. We always felt that we were welcome guests. Overall, the price we paid was excellent value and I will be recommending to some friends to stay there when they too visit Porto later this year. But the coffee…………..perhaps it was’ Portuguese’ coffee??

Liked the stay very much, friendly staff, clean rooms. We were welcomed warm, check-in was very easy, staff spoke English, which was a real relief since our Spanish sucks. Compared to our experience in France this stay was really great.

Simply a very comfortable two-night stay. I can't find fault with any aspect except touch button lighting button above bed seemed to be malfunctioning and we spent several frantic minutes trying to turn the lighting in the room off before settling down.

We had a nice stay with our dog in this hotel. Our car was overnight on the parking lot and was safe as well. We only stayed for one night, but the hotel was close enough for us to go out (by car) to the city center, have a walk through the old town and dine near the water front. We would definitely stay here again.