Hotel da Bolsa  

The location of this hotel, near the old quarter, makes it an excellent base. Our room, 604 on the top floor provided one of the best views of Porto imagineable. The room was clean and confortable and the staff were unfailingly friendly and helpful.

Central to tourist area and transport. Most helpful staff. Breakfast v good. Room comfortable and adequate to our needs.

Good situated. Parking facility in nearby garage.

Rooms only towards streets led to traffic noice.

Very good location, friendly and knowledgeable staff. An excellent choice for a stay of a few days

Apparently there were two sizes of rooms and I booked the larger. I'm not sure what the smaller rooms would be like! However, the rooms were perfectly adequate for a short stay.

Great location - close to everything - metro station , tourist places, bus hop on\hop off stop Polite personal Rooms are good enough Breakfast is good

Slow internet with very weak signal

The reception staff is excellent. They are friendly, efficient and seamlessly multilingual. They always graciously answered our questions, even when they were swamped with customers. They helped us find vegetarian restaurants and figure out the local transit. The hotel is all non smoking - really - not just in the sense "Today we call it non smoking" and you walk into your room gagging on ash, squinting in haze of the previous guest's 20-pack bender. The location is excellent. You can take the train or metro to the beautiful Sao Bento station and walk (downhill, about 5-10 minutes) to the hotel. The hotel is minutes away from the stock exchange palace, Cathedral of Sao Francisco and tram (which will take you along the river to the ocean). You can take a short walk to the mega-touristy river restaurants featuring local ports (but there are plenty of excellent, affordable restaurants all over town). You can easily take a bike ride, stroll or run along the Douro, and a lovely (and vertiginous) walk across the Bridge Dom Luis into Gaia. The breakfast room was pleasant and the breakfast itself was good (lots of bread, cereals, cheese, cold cuts, seasonal fresh fruit, juices, tea, bland auto drip coffee). Our room was clean and comfortable. It was by no means luxurious, but we didn't spend that much time there. This hotel is a great deal - highly recommended for a vacation in Porto.

The staff at the front desk were wonderful and spoke excellent English, even better than most Americans. The location is close to the river and yet within easy walking distance to the cathedral and other activities within the central city. Hop On/Hop Off transportation is available to see all the sights and stop #1 is an easy 2 block walk from the hotel.

The only negative is the size of the room. It is very small, and for a couple staying together, there is little room to walk around. We stayed there five nights but got use to the compact space after awhile.

I would class the Bolsa as a 2 star hotel

Perfectly ok 3 star hotel. The location was very good near the Ribeira area.

Bathrooms old and small

Close to the port and attractions (though uphill from the port, so the walk up at night was just a little annoying). Room was large (actually had 2 bathrooms, which was odd but nice), bed comfortable

The uphill walk

The location is very good for exploring interesting areas of Porto and easy stroll to the river side where many interesting events taking place and most of the restaurants are situated. The staff is helpful and polite as you would expect but nothing exceptional. The breakfast is included and very basic. One good touch is that you can squeeze your own orange juice! Everything was ver very clean. We had a pleasant view of the river from our window. Our room was 6 floors up and we had no problem with noise. Room had air conditioning.

The room was rather small. The attached shower/toilet really tiny. You can not close the door if the seat is down! The breakfast room is very small and cramped. We paid 90 euro per night but I think for what we got it should not have been more than 60 euro per night. They get away with this high price because of their location.

Very friendly and helpful staff.

Guest rooms very small

Staff were very friendly and helpfull. Good location. Breakfast good.

Breakfast room to small. Had to stand around waiting for a table. Not ideal if you are in a hurry.