House4 Bairro Alto - Lisbon, Portugal

A place to be!! Very central close to everything!

Friendly place. Good location but the shower in the bathroom has painted walls and lots of mildew. They no longer include breakfast. The room was clean and the sheets and towels were good quality but the mildew really got to me.

Wonderful place but the people walking by talking loudly all night made it impossible to sleep. Won't be going back.

Staying at Bairro Alto is a nice experience. It is a lively area, but the windows reduced the outside noise nicely. The bedroom was nice, decorated in a funky way and with a very comfortable bed. The downside was the bathroom, which was in between some renovation, and considerably dirty. Dirty as in your fingers would get black if you were to touch the tiles in the shower, for example. There was also some loose sand on the floor; it simply was in the middle of some renovation work and not really fit for guests. The hotel staff simply pointed this out and didn't seem to consider it a big problem, though, which is a shame, because nearly everything else about this place was quite alright. Don't expect a lot of service, though; there are only four rooms, and there is no one available at the reception most of the time (they do come if you call, though).

The day of my arrival the hotel staff copied several keys, but did not test the ones they gave me. Since this is a small hotel, the hotel's staff is not 24 hours. All doors lock from the inside with a key. I was locked into the hotel so I could not join my friends for dinner and drinks. When I called the 24 hour number, the hotel staff refused to come in to let me out. They were completely unsympathetic the next day.