Recommended Hotel (Best Buy Hotel)
This new city hotel (which opened at the end of 2005) is located in a superior quality residential development in the centre of Aveiro, with views of the lake formed by the river Ria de Aveiro. It offers 128 rooms in total spread over 6 floors. It is air-conditioned and has a lobby, 24-hour reception and check-out service, hotel safe, cloakroom, lift access, hairdressers' salon, bar and restaurant. Guests also benefit from the non-smoking floor, as well as the room and laundry services and the business centre. Parking facilities are available to guests arriving by car in the form of a parking garage and car park.|Exit the motorways heading for Aveiro Centro. Follow the signs to Centro Cultural de Congressos de Aveiro.
Location
The hotel is located in the heart of the city, overlooking an artificial lake of the Ria de Aveiro river, right next to the Congress and Cultural Centre (the old Jeronymo Pereira Campos Factory), just 5 minutes away from Aveiro's university, and surrounded by a high-quality modern tourist shopping centre. Bars, nightlife opportunities, the railway station, the cathedral and the museum are all just a short walk away. The beach is some 7 km away.
Rooms
The hotel offers 128 soundproofed rooms equipped with bathroom with bath/shower and hair dryer, wireless Internet, mini-bar, air conditioning, heating, telephone, radio, safe deposit box, satellite TV with PPV channels, wake up call service. Rooms available for the disabled and for non smokers. Facilities include conference and meeting rooms, TV room, garage, car park, concierge, bar, restaurant, breakfast room, wireless Internet, shops, gym, sauna, SPA, jacuzzi, indoor swimming pool (surcharge) and hairdresser.
General
Hotel Melia Ria is located in the heart of Aveiro city, near Lake Ria de Aveiro and next to the Aveiro Congress Centre. There is a variety of rooms and suites that include satellite TV with international channels and some have LCD TVs.