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.

It took time to solve a problem with my check-in, and I was only able to get in my room after hours. The bathroom was really small, wich can be a little bit inconvenient for those who are sharing room.

I found the staff unkind and grumpy. The hotel is uncomfortable, facilities such as hairdryers and lockers are lacking. This was the first bad experience with the accor hotels, they are usually very nice. I fell disappointed with this hotel.

Very good in general, very tidy. Clean, confortable, although I felt unconfortable while using the bathroom and the room often smelled like someone have been smoking in there before me. The Lounge room decoration is excellent.

Very basic hotel, just as the name says. It was extremely crowded on NewYearsEve and the days around, so service was lousy and queues for breakfast long. For a few nights it’s an “ok” place to stay. But I would rather go for Ibis Styles (just around the corner with much better offer for a little higher price).