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The Albergaria Residencial Insulana provides tourist-quality rooms with '70s décor in the very heart of the Baixa grid. If you're looking for location and don't care about dated design, the Insulana might be just what you're looking for.
What makes an "albergaria" an albergaria? They're like hotels, but they don't occupy the entire building. In this case, the Insulana occupies three of five floors. Its location, at the corner of Rua da Assunção and Rua dos Correiros, puts it smack in the heart of café-lined, shop-filled, pedestrian-only Baixa. Rooms on the second and fourth floor offer balconies overlooking the streets—certainly a romantic plus.
Rooms at the Insulana, with their floral patterns and wood-and-brass furnishings, celebrate the style of the '70s without a trace of irony. They're equipped with the basic amenities, like air conditioning, satellite TV and telephones. Bathrooms, with their lime green tiles and dated fixtures, want so badly to be called "retro."
The lack of sound proofed windows, however, could mean loud nights, as these streets are popular and drunks rarely keep their voices down.
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