Hotel Astória

Eccentric. Dated. Charming. Historic. The staff were welcoming and helpful, the breakfast was fabulous. The room (301) was spacious and clean, the bathroom was well-equipped and clean, the view across the river was lovely.

Hotel Astória is a charming, historic hotel that beautifully preserves its early 20th-century character. The elegant architecture and vintage decor make for a memorable stay, and the staff are always friendly and helpful. The spacious rooms and central location are definite highlights. Some areas, like the carpets and bathrooms, could use sensitive updates to restore the hotel’s original splendor and improve comfort, but the atmosphere is truly unique. Parking: There are two main options: an underground garage about 250 meters away (€20/day), or an open lot across the river (€7/day). Overall, Hotel Astória is perfect for those who appreciate history and classic style. With a few upgrades, it could be even more special.

The hotel is old and has that charm. Somethings could be maintained better with keeping the old style. The rooms are spacious and had a view of the river. Clean and the bed was very comfy. The breakfast was nice. I would have given it 4 stars but unfortunately the wifi was down. In this day and age wifi should be a priority if you want to get better ratings.

Lovely traditional hotel situated by the river in Coimbra. Large room and very comfortable with air conditioning. Breakfast was excellent with plenty of choice on the buffet. So easy to get to the sights in Coimbra. Very clean.|Value for money definitely. Staff very helpful.

Beautiful experience from 1930s style! Very friendly staff! Rooms are perfectly clean, spacious, comfortable! Lobby is in art-deco style and so beautiful! View is also fantastic, Mondego river is next to the hotel.

This hotel is very poorly equipped and maintained. They only offer twin beds that are very old. The first night the bed sagged so mad in the middle I felt like I was going to roll of the bed the whole night and it hurt my back. The next day I changed rooms the beds were better but now a room with no air conditioning only a tiny fan. The room was a sweat box.  The carpets were ancient and dirty, their is no effort in maintaining this hotel.  Stay elsewhere for any sort of comfort.

Beautiful and elegant antique hotel. Everything they kept original. It is like you are walking on a 1930 movie. Very elegant and charming. The elevator is very unique and gives you the vintage feeling of the time. Although, I guess… even the carpet is original… this vintage hotel could be so wonderful, but they do need new carpets asap (the old carpet gives the hotel a cheap, dirty, weird vibe). The hotel needs to figure out how to incorporate a new carpet with an antique style. Bedroom was ok beautiful decorated with vintage furniture, bed was very comfortable (although we got 2 twin beds instead of a queen bed. Looks like the queen bed was very small). Common areas,bedroom and bathroom were very clean. The rooms do not have a huge balcony, but quite nice to have the Mondego River view (keep in mind that the view in the pictures is better, in the real life view, the hotel has plenty of bus stops in front of it, and unfortunately they were having construction when we were there - noisy and dusty). Breakfast was poor in quality and options; fruits were not cut; coffee was terrible, not a gluten free friendly place. Hotel is very close to many coffee shops, bars, restaurants, and pharmacies. ( It is convenient). Overall this is a nice vintage hotel budget friendly in a very central location for travelers who are visiting the city for a couple days and don’t want to spend a lot of $ in expensive hotels.

A historic hotel in the old part of the city, by the river Montego. Inpresive architecture that with old-time class and finesse. Very good location by a central square, spacious lobby, high ceiling rooms with classy furniture, great service, good breakfast. The room no 109 is the one on the first floor of the tower. Try to stay there!

Unfortunately, the man at the front desk at 11:00am on May 1st 2018 was not well suited to represent the Hotel Astória. Having decades of travel experience including exposure to thousands of hotel staff I can say the man behind the reception desk at the Hotel Astória is one of the most unwelcoming and unprofessional. My wife and I stopped by to inquire about the hotel and possibly chat about the sights of Coimbra. The hotel exterior and lobby showed promising charm, the man at the desk however indicated that we did not belong in the hotel as the lobby was "private" and if we wished to use the toilet we should "go outside". Why would a hotel like the Hotel Astória employ a person as unskilled and ill-suited? We will not return to theHotel Astória.

This is a beautiful hotel in a great location that is screaming for an update. Beautifully designed and furnished in Art Deco style; however, it's stuck there. The carpet needs replacing, the only WiFi is in the hotel lobby or dining room, the 1990's TVs need to be thrown away. Rooms come with breakfast which was fine. While we were there, I observed them installing new flat screen TVs. WiFi is certainly more needed. The lobby and dining room are nice, but there is nothing going on other than people sitting around using the WiFi. The lounge stays empty since there is no real bar, no music, no anything. Hopefully a new owner with some vision will buy this hotel and turn it into the cool place it could be. We stayed 3 nights.

Not my kind of hotel. Horrible WiFi, horrible service. Definitely not coming back here

We went there in May 2015 and booked two nights. As I was there with my girlfriend who I had not seen a while, I booked the romantic package two times. The normal night stay was 65 a night, and the romantic package for one night was 80 Euros. So I booked two nights with the romatic package. Ihis package includes a bottle of sparkling wine (which was ok by the way) and breakfast in the room. But even booked this package two nights the staff refused to give it to us. Even booked and payed it two times they said that we shall have it only once. I pointed out, that on the hotel´ s web site offers the night for 65 Euros, why they charge me 2 x the higher price if they are only willing to give me the extras once. But they were not open to arguments, but kept stubbern. The Hotel by itsself is VERY outdated. The best times seemed to be in the 1930´s , but since then it seems no renovation took place. Froim the outside the hotel looks spectecular, but the rooms are - even we had a room with river view at this higher price - old, outdated and not really clean. The smell in the room was really bad - old. The breakfast was ok and I have to highlight the lady in the breakfast room, who runs around and make it all happen. She is really nice and tries everything to make you happy. I want to highlight that I sepak Portuguese, even being a german. So my resumee: if you go to the wonderful city of Coimbra and you need a hotel: the Astoria is even at this cheap prices not really to recommend. What a pitty, because the hotel has potential. But: the staff is unfriendly, not customer orientated and the rooms scream for a make over. Not a good experience.