Guest User
December 9, 2023
This is a hostel with several "hotel" rooms that I would advise you to avoid. This place is all marketing from what I can tell. It's one of these abominations that cropped up with the rise of AirBnB that seems focused only on taking money and does not provide value. It is way overpriced and not a good experience. The place *looked* mostly clean overall, but the two plastic chairs had stained and very thin cushions. The bedsheets were stained too, and thin, with mattress stains visible through the bottom sheet. Time will tell if it was bed bugs but I woke up in the middle of the night with what felt like bites from them. And that was after deciding to wear long-sleeve pajamas because of the thin sheets. And that was like 3 am. I couldn't even fall asleep until after midnight because the ground-floor room is literally 3 feet from the town's main road which gets loud traffic until late. And then the club down the street cranks noise until midnight. Wasn't a great start to the night. The room is minimalistic. Bare or painted concrete. No amenities. Coffee mugs are provided, but no coffee maker, so the mugs are just decorative. They don't even offer a bottle of water. No safe so be careful because the door locks are junk. No desk, hence no place to sit and write. No luggage rack. No place for your clothes: no dresser or wardrobe. Don’t even think about a pool or similar. There isn’t even any common inside space to share with other guests. There's no reception and so no way to adjust anything. They take your money online and then are disengaged. The build out is shoddy. Bathroom is cramped with open shower next to toilet and light switches that don’t turn off. The shower only half works: the water pressure is too low for the overhead shower. Also the handle to control the shower is cheap and doesn't work well. The place appears as a hotel online but then charges a substantial cleaning fee the way an AirBnB would. That too is strange. The price appeared reasonable, but then with the cleaning fee it was much higher. To be fair the person on the phone was open and kind and understood my surprise and gave me a chance to decline the booking. So I made the decision to stay here with knowledge of that fee and the thought that I’d stay multiple nights and it would average out. But I would not stay another night here. People I spoke with in town said that the owners changed a few years ago. That they never see people staying multiple nights and that it mostly caters to back-packers staying in the dorm rooms. To pay over $200 to stay in a place that I’d never offer for rent and that by rights should not be permitted is a nasty side-effect of the AirBnB phenomenon. A place like this in the past, if it existed at all, would be better and charge less than half what this place charges. To offer something low quality at a high price, while not illegal, doesn't square with their online reviews, which I now think are likely fake