by Marie-Luise Stromer

Created on: November 21, 2010

When travelling abroad I don‘t book hotels online, I somehow don‘t trust myself, what if something goes wrong? I need someone to blame , so I go to a travel agency I can trust, they do their job well, up to now there has been no need to blame them!

When we went to Lisbon at Easter three years ago, they found the Sana Executive Hotel * for us for the special offer of four nights for the price of three meaning that the double room cost 70 € a night (including breakfast) instead of 160 € (without breakfast, breakfast costs 8 € extra), I‘m sure that was a good deal and I couldn‘t have found a better one myself.

The hotel is about a quarter of an hour away from the airport by car, i.e., the planes can be heard but they didn‘t disturb us, the windows are good and keep most of the noise out and then, Lisbon airport is not Heathrow, there‘s not one plane after the other.

We arrived at midnight and found a friendly man at the reception desk who gave us the key to a room on the 7th floor. There‘s one non-smoker floor (the second), but he didn‘t ask us if we wanted to have a non-smoker room, the one we got, didn‘t smell, though.

The hotel has only one lift which is not good for a house with 10 floors and 72 rooms, I‘m willing to walk up three floors but not more and the lift is a small one, comfortable only for four grown-ups. This is my opinion, other people think differently and when they see three people already standing in the lift, push in nevertheless with, say, two suitcases and five bags. In such a case I get out to the great astonishment of the other passengers at the floor where this happens although it‘s clear that it’s not my destination and wait for the lift to come up again – which is quite some time in the Sana Hotel, it‘s so slow!

As it seems to be the case in all hotels from three stars down the door of the room opens directly into the room, i.e., there is no hall between the corridor and the room proper with a second door to keep out the noise. We were lucky, we only had quiet neighbours and, of course, we had our earplugs with us! Stepping in one finds the bathroom to the left, small but with all the necessary facilities, hair dryer, some toilet articles (soap, shower gel, tissues), new towels every day. The seat of the toilet bowl looked a bit worn, the covering finish was getting off in places.

From the space in front of the bathroom which is 2,50m

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