Ibis Valparaiso

Consistent Ibis standard, you know what you get, good room, good showers and hot water, very good breakfast, helpful staff

There is a privately operated gym on the 3rd floor and the muscle junkies roll and drop weights day and night so ask for a room on sixth or seventh floor on the opposite side to the gym

Pleasant stay

Staff at front desk were friendly enough and spoke a little English; elevators were functioning and clean, room was minimalist but clean and comfortable and quiet; bathroom was clean with nice showerhead; front desk called a private taxi for us when we checked out. A young man on the staff went out of his way to let us know how long we could expect to wait for the cab and to let us know when it arrived for us.

We missed the full breakfast, so when we went to the self-serve breakfast afterward, the options were limited to basically bread, coffee, and tea. That would have been fine, except staff did not seem interested in making breakfast easy or comfortable for us. The area was messy from the full breakfast earlier that morning, and we had to ask where to sit and how to get our food, because the staff in the cafe area were not especially attentive or helpful to us obvious foreigners.