HOTEL AVENIDA PALACE

We stayed here for my wife's birthday and I am having a hard time pulling together the right word to explain how fabulous this hotel was this week. Breakfast is wonderful...our local tour guide said if you don't eat eat it, ill take it! Come on, that's a local endorsement too!!! Turndown service with chocolate, special touches for special occasions, an amazing staff; it is all just out of this world wonderful. Listen, I've been in Europe and experienced place all over the EU, this is the best I've been hands down. The room was clean, spacious and reminds me of the days when this was a "spy" hotel during WW II;oh so classic, right down to the staff wearing bow ties. It's glamorous and comfortable. The staff are attentive and helpful...we LOVED Daniella at the bar....what a great person! The location cannot be beat; it's central to all of Lisbon! I'm all over the place I know but I can't stop gushing about how wonderful and friendly the people were to us on my wife's special trip. Thank you so so much Avenida Palace!

We choose the Hotel for our 20th wedding anniversary, the hotel management prepared a wedding arrangement with bunch of red roses, champagne and a little wedding present, given from the hotel. Hotel is situated in the middle of town (located directly on Restauradores and Rossio in Bairro Alto), is old fashioned and very stylish and belongs to the heritage site of Lisboa. We enjoyed the quiet, the stylish hotel and room facility, the breakfast buffet and the excellent coffee, a water bottle each day and the hotel stuff- all of them are very friendly and helpful. The concierce organized an Fado- Evening for us in the oldest Fado- location in Alfama and there were also a Fado- concert the Hotel Hall. An absolute good tip for a stay in Lisboa.

Very well located in the city. Great walking and strolling area. Hotel was really nice. Had an old world feel. Rooms were large, clean and good lighting. Very comfortable. Breakfast is outstanding. The best on our trip. Fresh fruits, bakery, cheeses, juices etc. Concierge was helpful but not overly helpful. Well run property overall.

Charming hotel in an excellent location. Walking distance to the city center and lot of restaurants. Service was great. They had out room ready even though we were there early in the morning. Staff and concierge were very helpful. Breakfast buffet was great.

I don't usually write reviews, but this hotel blew me away in so many ways. The 1st thing that REALLY impressed me is that we arrived in the morning after a long overnight flight (meaning no sleep). Even though the hotel was full to capacity, they had our room ready! When I mentioned how thankful I was as we were really early for check in time, the response was "no problem, we knew you were coming in early" WOW!!! We were actually delayed 3 hours in Newark, so we arrived later than expected, but they were still ready for us. The staff were extremely helpful and friendly. No request was too much. The front desk staff were great and the consierge was a big bonus since we had never been to Portugal and were also not fluent in the language. He helped us find resturants when we would explain what we were looking for. When we were ready to leave for the cruise port, he got a cab for us. The location of this hotel is also a big plus as it was convienient to everything we could possibly need. We had 2 walking tours scheduled and the meeting place for the company was literally 1/2 block away from the hotel. Others had to take a taxi to the meeting place. We stayed here pre-cruise and it was a short ride from the airport and then to the cruise port. The room was big, clean and contained everything we needed including a watter bottle each day. The breakfast buffet was included and it was absolutely amazing! Usually "free breakfast" means a couple of room temperature items. This breakfast buffet had everything you could possibly want. Hot items were hot and cold items were cold. There was an great variety of choices. They also offered this for a good amount of time. All of this, and the price was reasonable. If I were to go to Portugal again, I wouldn't consider staying anywhere else.