1 star for the great location; but this place has many issues. First, that you must have the key to exit the front door makes the place a veritable deathtrap in case of emergency, so I was off put from the get go but willing to overlook. Then I began to notice that the whole place is dingy - the cracked plaster would be a quaint reflection of the generally charming decay of the neighborhood if it was at all intentional. However the fingerprints on the doors and walls, ants in the room, broken door handles, moldy awnings, unmovable window slides and dusty tile floors would indicate that the place suffers from a profound case of deferred maintenance or even general care. The rooms on the street side of the building all lacked adequate hot water or decent water pressure such that we used baths in the rooms of our companions in the back half of the building. The safe in our room as well as two others did not work at all. Luckily this was less problematic as our group had the entire property to ourselves. On day 3 of our stay, the antiquated key to our room stuck in the lock, leaving ALL our belongings totally unsecured - again, thankfully, as only our friends were in the property this was less problematic than could have been. Day 4 the bidet handle comes off and the fixture starts spewing water like a Bellagio fountain. The poor girl working had 0 mechanical ability and no tools on site. I however being mechanically inclined, was able to stave off a massive flood.
The final straw was upon check out... literally, as the car service pulls up to take me the airport, the newly arrived desk clerk (a younger gentleman whose name I cannot recall) claims that we will have to pay for the door lock, bidet and the window (a window mind you that I NEVER opened as it was damaged BEFORE I checked in). I think I swore quite a bit and absolutely refused to pay. Although I learned later that the main person in our group who found and booked the place DID pay to preserve their "good rating" on the booking site used.
This place is simply dreadful. The staff is lax and it seems the property happily uses the threat of down rating guests to coerce extra money to pay for their carelessness. read more