Ribatejo, Portugal hotel rooms at the Independent

"Convenient stopover. Staff were very helpful. Unfortunately the beds were more like single camp beds, rather than the double requested and the pillows weren't good. Worse was that as a service station hotel the main obvious problem would have to be traffic noise, so why weren't the rooms soundproof? Every lorry going past.... Even someone moving a chair in the room above or next door! NOISE. Oh, and that's without the water pipes making a noise throughout the entire night :-( Even the corridor in the non-smoking hotel smelt badly of cigarettes. We didn't find out what breakfast was like because at €6.50 each that's very poor value in Portugal. Intermarche fed us both for under €6. This was grossly overpriced compared to the Pension hotel in Fatima. We should have driven a bit farther."