ibis budget RJ Praia de Botafogo 2 stars

covered my expectations and needs. I was with my family on vacations. Excellent location. Our plans was to be closer main city attractions.

Hotel was adequate for our needs which was just a place to sleep and have breakfast in the morning.

due to schedule change needed quick booking and found ibis express quickly

Good stay

For the second consecutive time I stayed at Ibis Budget Botafogo the check-in was terrible. This time we arrived around 11:45 AM (we had a reservation already), waited some minutes in line, and when we got to the check-in we were informed that there still weren't clean rooms available, and they asked us to wait around 10 minutes. That was ok, so we sitted and waited in the lobby right in front of the check-in. It passed 20 minutes and I went back and asked for the rooms. So the receptionist said that the rooms were already available (and yet nobody told us, even if we were there ONLY waiting for this information), but we had to enter a huge queue AGAIN to check-in, where there were several people who arrived AFTER us in the hotel. The line was SO slow and we had a wedding to attend in a few hours. This hotel is so lacked of organisation and not reliable at all when we have an appointment in the city. The only good thing is that the location is great and the rooms are clean and comfortable. But you always get a headache to check-in.

Close to great points in the city, such as subway, shopping and restaurants. The room, although large, should have better concern in details such as cleanliness (body and head hair left on the bathroom), broken toilet seat and the floor of the room taking off, which I stumbled twice.

2 nights stray,one person

Good experience overall, but with a few minor issues. An elevator had issues with the buttons, I've seen some guests having to exchange elevators after missing their floors because they couldn't press their floor buttons and that happened to me once. Why save a few bucks cutting shampoo? I believe the hotel could cut the TV instead - if you're in Rio you want to enjoy the city not watch the TV, specially if you're in a budget hotel. The location is not prime but it is very good and I recommend it.

Amazing location close to the Botafogo mall and subway but some details like sheets and towels need to be improved. Unfortunately there were roles in the sheets and the towels were so old that they were about to get home too

Smelly rooms. Towel was removed after room was cleaned, concierge was useless in getting a replacement towel and after 2.5 hours had to chase a cleaner in the building to ask for clean towels.

Nice and clean. Hot water with strong water pressure.

The only reason I didn’t give a 10 is because we had issues with our air conditioner a couple of nights and had to switch rooms in the middle of the night because of it.

Ask for vaccination card for dogs but do not accept a picture with proof of vaccination.Should be more clear about obligation about it in the check in. I would avoid this hotel if I knew before hand about the conditions which cannot be discussed even through veterinary said hotels could easily accept just the proof of a picture. Appartments need maintenance ASAP. Staff not friendly and not efficient.

Ibis Budget is unapologetically "no frills". However the absence of frills opens the door to people that want to spend less on their hotel but still want to have confidence in the product they receive. Ibis and Ibis Budget provides for me a constant level of clean and functional accommodation that meets my needs. I have previously only used for work but on this occasion i used it for a family short break. The location of the hotel was very convenient, the price was very competitive and I liked the room which was although simple clean and positive. The room was bright had open views from the window and all the facilities functioned perfectly. The room was cleaned daily and new towels provided which at some budget hotels is not the case. Our room had functioning internet. At all times there was security in reception which provides a secure impression about the premises as a whole. All in all I highly recommend this hotel and would absolutely return on a future visit to Rio de Janeiro. I would strongly recommend this hotel to families.

Very good place to stay when visiting Rio. Close to the airport, sugar loaf mountain, Christ the redeemer and copacabana beach. Great selection for breakfast, rooms cleaned everyday with clean towels, hot showers, multi lingual reception. Would definitely stay here again.