Sonntag, 28. März 2010

hotel olissippo-oriente: where the streets have no name

on the map I had with me getting to the hotel from the airport seemed to be quite easy. problem, streets have no names here ;-) , or, at least, we didn't see them in the dark. so we enjoyed a free sight-seeing tour of some not too touristic areas of lisboa until we finally reached the hotel.
from the outside it doesn't look like one, no lights, no nothing, just one high-rise block next to the other one, and you drive by without realizing, that you've just passed the hotel - no light effects or so whatever.
some insider-info, for free, of course: once you see the vodafone building you are verrrry close to the olissippo oriente hotel ;-)
to cut a then longer story short, we finally found the place.
friendly staff, nice, clean room, breakfast the type you expect in such a hotel, parking in garage of hotel, about 9 euros per night. train station across the streets, didn't hear any noise.
only negative hightlight: seem to have live music on saturdays, although we were on 4th floor, far away from live music, we could hear the boom, boom, but were too tired to be really upset about it. had a good breakfast at 8 o'clock - first day of 'summer-time' - thus also lost an hour of sleep ;-)