Ibis Lyon Centre

The room is quite small with cigarette smell.

Decent sized room and nice modern bathroom with everything you need. Tiny toilet and strange lift just added to the cool factor. Breakfast also well worth including. People really nice and helpful. Would definitely stay again.

I stayed here for 4 nights. The location is excellent and only about 3 minutes walk from Jean Mace metro station, on the B line. It is also about 50 metres from a supermarket that has most things and is open long hours. The staff were really friendly and all spoke very good English, which was good. The room was lovely and I was impressed the aircon was already on when I reached the room and it kept it to a very nice cool temperature. There were two main issues whilst I was there. The first was that the wifi in the room was really slow. So slow that I was unable to watch TV programmes on my laptop. This meant I missed many of the programmes I was hoping to watch whilst there. The signal really does need upgrading so there is more power. The other issue was that room cleaning was very hit and miss. I had the card on my door every day from 10am until 3pm and on the Saturday and Sunday I came back to a non cleaned room and this a full bin and no new towels. Monday was better and the room was cleaned. Overall, I liked this hotel and I would return but they do need to fix the wifi.

I’ve stayed at lots of Ibis branded hotels all of Europe - and this probably ranks somewhere in the middle of them. The hotel’s easy to get to - a few minutes’ walk from Jean Macé Metro station (itself a few stops down from the city’s main rail terminus) - but in a slightly rough area of Lyon (we arrived a few days after anti-government protests and the local streets were full of graffiti and smashed bus shelters; other areas of Lyon on our trip were untouched). On arrival, we were checked in promptly and the rooms seemed to have been recently renovated: the furniture and decor were in a good condition and the bathroom was nicely tiled. However, like so many Ibis properties, they’ve decided not to lose the pebble dash-style interior walls and simply painted them grey - which feels a bit naff. The receptionist we dealt with had a slightly odd attitude - including with left luggage - and warned us about strikes on the Metro that weren’t happening, meaning we slightly panicked unnecessarily about a connecting train on our departure. We didn’t eat breakfast at the Ibis either as it was too expensive. All in all though, our room was clean, quiet, comfortable and in a better state than others in the chain.