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Reviewed July 17, 2014

We are a mature couple from the US and first time visitors to Portugal. We enjoyed our stay here. The hotel is modern and unusual in it's style being that they combined a few of these old buildings to create one hotel. In the design they left a lot of the original stonework, which makes it charming. I agree with the other reviews regarding reception, friendly but not overly helpful. And yes it was a minor inconvenience messing with the internet. We were there five nights during the St. Joao celebration, and yes dancing in the streets right outside the door. We came in at 4am and our room was quiet and sound proof. The first three nights we had a room which
did not have much of a view, but was still very nice. After the celebration we moved to a room with two balconies, one over looking the Douro river. It was 20 euro more a night and worth it.
The air conditioner worked well. Breakfast offered at 10 euro a person, but you must agree to the entire stay otherwise it is 12euro. We tried it the first day, but there are cheaper choices around the corner. It was an easy 1/2 block walk to river and around the city, and there were always taxi's outside the door. There is an ATM machine also just outside the door. We would recommend this hotel and we would stay again.

Room tip: Request a river view room if you can, wasn't much more $$.
Date of stay: June 2014
  • Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Thank TerLem
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Reviewed July 10, 2014

Special hotel in the city centre of Porto. Decor modern and sleek, with a warm atmosphere. The rooms are located in a maze of multiple linked old restored buildings. Spacious beautiful rooms. Bar in the hotel. Restaurants within walking distance. A must!

Date of stay: June 2014
  • Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Reviewed June 26, 2014

Stayed here for my husband's birthday, to introduce our friends to one of our favourite cities and for the S. Joao celebrations.
Location good but the windows' sound proofing qualities are so poor that sleep is difficult especially with an Irish pub across the road....and that was before the night of S. Joao! Lifts took forever and the wifi access - what a pain! New code every 24 hours, which had to be re-entered often within that time. With the air traffic control strike, we needed information but struggled to get it.
Staff are polite but don't expect gushing. Their communication between each other could be better eg when we were trying to book transport to the airport.
The room was small...or perhaps the bed was too big for it. Nice for us to have complimentary port and biscuits - not in our friends' room though. The TV was not on a bracket so couldn't be angled into the room. Pillows were not comfy and the bed duvet/covering were on upside down. Odd. I don't see the necessity for a window into the bathroom especially when the blind doesn't reach the bottom of it. Three coat hangers for two people was a pain.
Both the bathroom and room had Silverfish - damp issues? The hair drier was awkward to use - almost standing in the toilet - and my friend's only worked for 10 second bursts. Wobbly toilet seat and difficulties setting off shower were annoying. Good to have a magnifying mirror, but better to have a heated main mirror and/or an working extractor so the room didn't steam up. Air con worked well.
It's not a cheap place so you expect better attention to detail. I wouldn't go back. I will always return to Porto itself however!

Date of stay: June 2014
Trip type: Traveled as a couple
Thank JMcFish
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Reviewed June 15, 2014

I wish I could write a more complimentary review, but our recent stay in this hotel was not as hassle-free as it should have been.

First off, one doesn't want to believe what they say about the "hard-nosed" people of Porto in Lisbon, but it was noticeable that this hotel's reception staff were polite but not friendly. They were also over-loaded: on Friday morning after breakfast there was one receptionist on duty, with no fewer than six guests needing her attention.

The desk was unable to supply us with an international adaptor plug on request - the only one on hand was 'broken'.

Do hotel owners and architects ever stay in hotels?

Our bathroom had a ledge over the drain in the shower, but no soap rack. That meant putting things like bath gel and shampoo down on the floor and having to bend down whenever something was needed. That's O.K. when you're twelve or twenty, but at my age that's starting to be an uncomfortable imposition. Needless to say, it was useless to use the soap in the shower. It quickly washed away to a slim flake which fell on the floor and disappeared under the drain cover.

There was nowhere to hang up your used bath towels. The two hooks side by side next to the door accommodated a pair of dressing gowns. Needless to say, we moved the gowns to less elegant quarters and hung our towels up in their places.

Air conditioning is not a luxury when you have a bedroom in the eaves of an old building and the outside temperature is 31 degrees Celsius. But some genius had set our air conditioner on an incomprehensible program. It worked - fitfully - on our first night, but then failed. We made two appeals for help to reception without seeing any improvement, and eventually demanded - and waited an hour for - a visit from maintenance. The technician's tinkerings gave us two hours of relief, but then the unit simply stopped working. This was a major irritation.

I don't think we'll stay at the Carris Porto Ribeiro again, which is a pity. It is an attractive hotel, and could be extremely comfortable with very little effort by management and owners.

Date of stay: June 2014
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Reviewed June 12, 2014

We are not sure if the positive reviews were for the same hotel. Our experience was tragic. The lobby gives directly onto the bussiest street in Porto and there is absolutely nowhere to park and unload luggage. Nearest garage some 500 yards and lugging luggage over cobblestones was no picknick. The room was the tiniest we have ever had outside Japan. The queensize bed took over the whole room with barely room to get into bed. Luggage stacked as there is no floorspace. Complained was shown a larger room which we accepted but on opening the door the receptionist changed her mind when she saw a bottle of Port on the table. It was then magically reserved. The staff are surly and really do not want to be there. Please do not use the USB portin the computer center as it is wired to 220 volts and fried the thumb drive. The braekfast was OK but the thought of having to trundle all the luggage to the parking garage took out any appetite that one may have had. What a disgraceful hotel and future travellers be warned
giovanni

Room tip: Ground floor no view but acceptably large
Date of stay: June 2014
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1  Thank Giovanni S
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