Okay, okay, so I'm having a really hard time with this one--probably cause I take this WAY too…read moreseriously. I didn't hate this hotel, but sometimes I really wanted to. I was was here for about ten days, and I think I started getting used to this hotel, in a 'well I guess it's not THAT bad' kind of way, but even now I have to say that some aspects of this hotel were truly 1-star. The biggest plus was the price, which was less than 20 a night, but worked out to be 9 bucks a night after my rewards/points thingy. Yeah. What the hell is there to complain about when you pay 20 bucks a night for a room (and in my case about 10)?? If anything, a person's response to my whining should be "well what the hell did you expect you cheap muthaphucka you?", and that person would have a point.
Located adjacent to the Plazoleta Miguel Hidalgo, it's an ugly, ugly building, but is actually nice inside--a situation you'll find a lot in Mexico. It's an old hotel, definitely not luxurious, with no air conditioning, rickety doors that rattle, hard beds, pillows like flour sacks (so heavy, actually, that I propped one up against the door to stop it from rattling), tiny showers, windows that leak when it rains, and an elevator so slow that it makes people laugh. The rooms themselves are small but don't feel cramped, are relatively clean, have decent ceiling fans and a television; rooms are cleaned everyday and you're provided a towel, soap and shampoo, and a bottle of water. There's also a restaurant in the hotel that provides room service, but I never ordered anything so I can't comment on it. Overall, not the worst for nine bucks a night, right?
What bothered me were other details that just seemed to be more of a lack of trying/caring than anything else. The staff was not very friendly, professional, or polite, and though the cleaning staff did a decent job, they usually forgot to leave something. Sometimes a random chair, shelf, or table turned on one side would be sitting in a corner of the elevator. Is there really nowhere else to put that?? It's okay that it's not a four star hotel--for the price I didn't expect it to be--but with so many basic things being a bit rundown, coupled with fairly poor service and management, it's the kind of place that has nowhere to go but downhill.