HOTEL VINCCI BAIXA

My wife and I recently spent a week in Lisbon. Our trip was inspired by Rick Stein's TV series Long Weekends, the Lisbon episode is still available on BBC I-Player cost only £1.50. We chose the Vincci Baixa for its very central location only two minutes walk from the Praca do Comercia square with its great views over the River Tagus, the Ponte 25 April bridge and the Cristo Rei statue. The bridge river and lagoon are like San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and Bay. The statue is like the one above Rio de Janeiro. The square provides access to Lisbon's public transport network of amazing trams,also metro and buses with cheap tickets eg 24 hours ticket for 6 euros across all transport. The hotel is also very close to the wonderful old Alfama district with narrow winding streets and Fado venues for song and guitar. The castle with great views and museum is within easy walking distance as are many great restaurants and shops. We found the hotel staff very friendly and helpful especially those on reception who were a mine of local information. The room was very comfortable and clean and the breakfast very good. We can thoroughly recommend the Vincci Baixa and the whole city and district of Lisbon.

Our five day break was enhanced by the attentiveness and friendliness of the wonderful reception staff. Filipa and friends are great assets to the hotel. Great location - we shall most definitely be back!

We decided to stay a couple of extra days in Lisbon and found the Vincci Baixa by chance. So glad we did. Big thank you to Marcos for getting us checked in and answering allll (because we had a lot) of our questions. The room was clean and spacious and provided everything we needed for a few extra days. Marcos and Phillipa were so kind and helped us book train tickets to Porto as we couldn't translate the site ourselves. They also provided advice on how to get around and what other parts of Portugal to see. The hospitality was a great start to our trip. So much so, that we went head and booked their sister hotel in Porto! Thanks for everything!!

Very nice hotel as a location and comfort 👍🏻👍🏻 Hotel is very small and room as well, so convenient for a short stay not long. Reception girl was very helpful and nice, and gave me good recommendations to nice restaurants around. But best point about it is the location 👍🏻👍🏻

We just came back from Lisbon. We really like the Vincci Baixa hotel. The rooms are exactly like you see on line - I had booked through Expedia and my choice of room was a double room or two twin beds - I had chosen the twins because doubles in Europe can be small. Our twins were perfect - nice white sheets, duvet, very comfortable beds. However next door was a king bed. The room was cleaned every day - nice white towels, lots of hot water. One word of caution is the tub is high and has a half glass wall - some water splashes on the tile floor - you need to step down from the tub with nothing to hold on to - I almost wiped out on the tile floor - so adjust your bathmat accordingly. Also reminder there are no face cloths available (as in most places in Europe) so bring your own. They do give you a sponge in a package. The breakfast is 16 euros or 13 if you book with the front desk - we don't eat that much at breakfast so it was too expensive for us. Toast or a croissant and coffee and juice was 8-10 euros on the streets. The front desk staff are the very best part of this hotel - they are always helpful, have all the information required on tours, where to go, how to get there. There is nothing they cannot do and every single one of them is charming and polite. They book dinners. They are interested in where ate and your recommendations. We had a restaurant situation which they were concerned about and handled it for us. We also thought the AC was not cold enough and the service man came and in fact the AC was at 17 degrees - we did find this a little warm but we come from the cold...... The location is marvelous- walking distance to everything. Lisbon is a beautiful, hilly city. Be prepared to climb however if you don't want to you can take the trolleys, or a tuk tuk to the top of wherever you want to be and walk down. The waterfront is minutes from the hotel and there are lots of things to do and see and many restaurants. Even the tourist type of restaurants serve very nice food. All the food in Lisbon is pricey for us Canadians are the Euro is high. We enjoyed every minute of our stay at the Vincci - the Portuguese are hospitable and charming people.