Kaleen
February 21, 2023
Gritty neighborhood, amenities misrepresented
This place was hard to find. From the Main Street, the building signs marking the “hotel” were darkened, broken windows, graffiti. I’m tough, don’t need fancy, this neighborhood was rough. I definitely paid a real hotel price and just feel ripped off. There is no loading zone for parking. It says it’s a bed and breakfast, with FREE continental breakfast, we got no free breakfast and this was a part of my budgeting. The neighborhood is dirty, gritty, graffiti, homeless and others urinating in the streets. Very very loud and busy nightlife on a Sunday night, partying/shouting in the streets. I forgot and thought it must have been a Friday. Bringing my daughters here our first night in Lisbon had me in a panic. When we finally found the entrance (carting luggafe)we had to have a working phone to get the code to get in, then once in, needed a code to get our key. The room door was very hard to get open. The guy said there was a minibar. Maybe in Europe that just means a refrigerator? There was a carafe of water. The cold water in the bathroom would barely come out, the supply mostly turned off, when I adjusted it on, it dripped. It dropped loud into water because the sink drain was broken in the closed position. The description mentions eating in the restaurant/bar like it has one. It doesn’t. Maybe those were the storefronts on the main road that had long been vandalized with graffiti and broken windows and abandoned. The beds and pillows were very comfortable.