1877 Estrela Palace Hotel is a boutique restaurant with 8 rooms in total. The location in Aveiro is excellent. It is across from the main canal, and shopping mall. The top floor has the breakfast dining room, which also has a bar. There is a terrace that has very pretty views of the canal and plaza in Aveiro. All the staff was very nice and accommodating. Here are the cons with the property: 1) parking is available in the shopping mall underground garage across the canal (equivalent to 1-2 blocks). The problem is that you have to illegally park in the middle of a very narrow street in front of the hotel entrance, walk into the lobby, ask for an access card to be able to use the parking garage, and walk back to the hotel to return the access card every time that you enter or exit the garage. This is not a comfortable or efficient way to park. Instead, all 8 guest rooms should have an access card to use as needed during your hotel stay. 2) We kept having issues with the air conditioning system in both our room, and our friend's room. The air conditioner kept automatically changing back to "heating" setting. Again, the staff kept resetting the system remotely in the lobby back to "cooling" mode, but the room would warmup in the interim.