Due to the incredibly thin walls and the way sound carries here, we got not one minute of sleep due to the grotesque man/men in the room next door having sex (?) for 11 hours straight. ...Really.
The good first: The location is okay, looks a little sketchy but it's not unsafe. It's steps away from the train station and a 10-15 min walk to the museums and other sites of interest. The staff are friendly, fluent in English and mostly helpful. The room was clean-ish and the decor is pretty - marble floors, a terrace off our room, a bidet, plaster cornices, etc.
The piddly things next: The wifi was awful (don't expect to use it, you'll have better luck at the cafe down the street), the pillows were too hard to use (I slept on a balled up sweater), and the bed was also very hard.
The nightmare: The paper-thin walls and the way sound carries are the real problem here. Our first night, we were able to hear every word, sigh and movement of the gentleman in the room next to us. We would also jump every time someone above us flushed their toilets because the noise was so inexplicably loud. We asked the front desk clerk if we could switch rooms and were told that the other rooms were worse and that "you don't want those". Huh, okay. The man in the next room wasn't being inconsiderate, he was simply on a 2-hour long conference call about annuities. We felt compelled to turn the TV off and keep very quiet as it literally sounded like he was in the room with us and we didn't want to disturb his call. Lame way to spend a honeymoon, but what can you do.
The second night, Phone Call Guy had checked out and a new guest was next door. We returned to our room at 8PM and were greeting with the most revolting, stomach churning, asthmatic-man-in-the-throes-of-ecstasy noises you could imagine. These noises did not stop FOR ELEVEN HOURS. The walls were so thin that wearing earplugs did nothing to muffle the sounds, so we were forced to listen to moans, groans and cries with hardly any periods of silence in between. I will never understand exactly what were hearing (nor do I want to), but I do know I will never, ever have a worse night than the one I spent laying there waiting for morning to come so we could get the heck out of there.
The next morning, the front desk clerk assured me that we were hearing "a couple" all night, and not the sounds of satisfied customers spending the night with a sex worker. Who knows.
I really wanted to like this hotel, but in staying here you are completely at the mercy of whoever is in the room(s) next to and above you. Even if they turn out to be decent human beings, you will almost certainly be disturbed by their footsteps, doorknob turning, snoring, passing gas (no, really), and so on. it's like sharing a room with strangers. I would absolutely not stay here again. read more