I will start this review with the negatives which are the following:
Our stay at this hotel was for 3 nights 4 days and paid $545.00 which was way overpriced for the quality of room and guest services. When we arrived the check in took about 30 long minutes. Our credit card was charged half of the full amount a couple days before checking in which we were still okay with, but when we checked in the front desk girl said she would charge the remainder of the amount due for our stay. The problem began when our card was charged $100.00 dollars over the actual remaining balance. When my boyfriend asked why there was this additional charge, the front desk employee stated that they were charging on the currency exchange amount to their hotel policy. Keep in mind that if you are not paying in Mexican currency, pesos, you will end up paying more money in the long run since each business will do the exchange rate at a lower amount from the actual exchange rate. Next, when we parked our car there was 4 parking spaces up in the front of the hotel. Our first night we went to dinner and returned to absolutely no parking in the hotel premises. A hotel employee told us that the hotel only has 8 parking spaces and directed us to park in a dirt parking lot approximately one block away from the hotel. This parking situation is very inconvenient for guests because not only are you parking far away from hotel, but the walkway back to the hotel is not paved and since it's dirt it was muddy the nights of our stay.... So take rain boots or you will get your nice shoes muddy.
Now on to the actual room. The room we got looked clean, but the issue was the shower. The shower was ridiculously small. The shower door opens inwards which means you have to move to the very left section of the shower to be able to open the door to get out. If you are a mom with small children and you want to shower your child in with you, I will say that's almost impossible hence the size of shower.
The continental breakfast the hotel claims to offer at no charge as part of your stay is NOT really a continental breakfast. Once you go to their breakfast area you will expect eggs, waffles, sausage, bacon and those typical items that a continental breakfast offers for the most part, but not in this hotel. This hotels continental breakfast only offers 3 different types of fruits (papaya, melon, watermelon), bread, hot coffee, hot tea and juice. If you want to eat eggs and the basic breakfast items you will have to purchase it off their menu.
Based on all these inconveniences with this hotel I would not be returning to City Express Plus Ensenada. Hopefully they fix these issues with the extra hidden charges, parking and their so called continental breakfast so it's at least worth the high prices they charge per night for staying here.
I will say that their breakfast and pool area are nice and the security guards along with hotel employees are polite and friendly. read more