SANA Rex Hotel - Lisbon, Portugal 

"A good time in Lisbon"
Posted: Mon, Nov 23 2009
I have stayed at many times in this hotel. Staff very friendly and helpful,arranging trips all over Portugal.We had a chauffeur driven car for a week at extremely good rates. Rooms and food good for what is essentially a three-star hotel. I would recommend the Rex and it's staff to anyone looking to stay in Lisbon.

PV
Posted: Sat, Feb 21 2009
I liked it very much. The hotel is very nice and so are its employees, always helpful. All the rooms are fine. Great breakfast. Cleanliness maybe the only issue to be aware of because you have to indicate yourself if you want your linen changed. The rest (bathroom, room) ok.

cleanliness is not necessarily next to godliness!
Posted: Thu, Mar 27 2008
We booked this hotel at the last minute having decided that a very cheap internet rate - 333 euros for 5 nights, including breakfast - was good enough for our first visit to Lisbon, and hoping that the line on the hotel's website "Every room at the Sana Rex Hotel is bright, spacious and has been tastefully decorated in an elegant style" and this one from thompson.co.uk : "Although you are in a central position, the hotel offers an excellent restaurant serving cuisine that reflects the high standards of your surroundings" would offset some of the negatives in the trip advisor reviews - especially as some of them are very good. We started off in a reasonably sized room but with twin beds which were seriously uncomfortable - it felt like we were sleeping on springs, so the following morning we asked if there was a double rooom available. We were warned that the only one available was tiny but thought that for 4 nights it would be manageable. However the bed was only marginally more comfortable and to get past it we had to walk sideways between the end of the bed and the wall. Pillows were plentiful but lumpy and extra blankets were available. The bathrooms in both rooms were tiny but nicely decorated and the shower was fabulous, sadly the towels were thin and tiny. Both rooms and bathrooms were spectacularly clean (surgically clean, as my husband says). Breakfast was the only meal served. Whilst it was plentiful the cooked meats looked like they'd been poached (not how I want my bacon and sausage), the coffee in the machine was undrinkable (we do like our coffee) and the orange juice was orange squash. Luckily if you walk down the hill and cross straight over the lights there is an excellent pastelaria where we had breakfast on two days. One word of caution - I'm not really a post-card person but I decided to buy some from the hotel and was charged 3.4 euros for 3 cards - they're 25 cents each in town!