Very clean...Close to the metro station and you can get to the shopping center with one of the hotel's elevator...The problem is to get inside the hotel parking which is behind and on top of the building and has the same entry as the hospital parking.It is very confusing because of the lack of indication...

Very good location. Metro station is on your doorstep. A small shopping center with a very good food court is on the same building. Free car park. Breakfast was worth ? 5,50. On the rest, Ibis standard quality, except for the nicer than usual staff.

We stayed here for 4 days from Tuesday to Saturday and really enjoyed ourselves. The room was clean and big enough with a large bathroom. When we checked in (at 9 pm after a flight from Liverpool) we were told we had been given a double room as they "do not do twin rooms". As we are two male travellers who are not romantically involved this was less than ideal, but the guy on reception had a quick look and gave us a room that had a king-size bed and a double sofa-bed, which was fantastic. All the rooms are non-smoking, so if you're a smoker beware!!! We didn't partake of the breakfast at ?5.50 as we thought it was a bit steep for what was on offer. Underneath the caf? is a shopping centre which has a large food court, which is handy if you're arriving late in the evening as it is open until 10pm. On the ground level of the centre is fab little caf? which does coffees, croissants, pains au chocolat, etc. for cheap. A coffee rarely costs more than 90 cents in Porto and is often as little as 55 cents. The hotel is ideally located one stop from the terminus of the yellow metro line. Although not in central Porto as such, the hotel is not so far that it would cause you any difficulties. You can reach Trindade metro stop in about 5 minutes from where you can transfer onto any of the other 4 metro lines. The metros from the hotel run every 5-6 minutes and are clean, quick and reliable. We would suggest buying an "andante" card which costs between 4 and 7 euros a day depending which zones you plan on travelling in. The hotel bar is cheap and well-stocked and you never have to wait to be served. They have free nibbles, too! I believe there is free wireless internet access, but we never used this, so I can't guarantee it. The only main gripe we had with the location was gaining access on a night when the shopping centre had closed. The main way into the hotel is through the shopping centre and when this closes at 10pm, so does your main - and easiest - way into the hotel. After 10 pm you have to walk around the block and enter via an underground carpark. Unfortunately, once in the carpark, things aren't very clearly signposted and you can find yourself wandering around and around, coming to dead end after dead end. Things get even worse after midnight because then this alternative entrance also closes and you have to amble around blindly until the solitary entrance becomes visible. To this day, I'm still not sure of the "actual" way in!!!!

This IBIS chain hotel is in the campus area of Porto - Sao Joao near the V.Cancer Institute. It is situated on top of a hill at campus, with a shopping mall under the IBIS. Free parking in the secured parking lot outdoor. The yellow line metro runs to the place, it is the one that goes directly to the city centre or to the GAIA area where the vine cellars are. Very good, modern and clean IBIS hotel - perfect for the money.