text: First let me get this out of the way Gallo Blanco Cafe is a good place to eat The restaurant gets very noisy at night and the wine list leaves something to be desired but the Mexican food is prepared well The staff at the front desk was also very helpful at all times They could not have been nicernnNow on to the hotel I stayed four nights and was charged to for the first three nights On the fourth night a Saturday the rate inexplicably rose to on the pretext of rooms being scarce in Phoenix because of an extraterrestrial convention Now Clarendon if you want repeat customers do not gouge the customer on the pretext of aliens nnOn to my suite How is it possible that a room can be so dark The hotel is surrounded by big sky yet the suite had only two very small windows one that faced a parking lot the second a walkway overlooking the pool so the curtain had to drawn for privacy plunging the room into even more darkness The perfect abode for Dracula perhaps but not for a New Yorker seeking western views nnFinally be warned that the hotel does not serve expresso You get instead a mug of tasteless watery airline coffee Fortunately there is refuge a few blocks away and the route to Starbucks became a morning ritual nnWould I stay at the Clarendon again Quire possibly if I do not have to pay for a view of a parking lot and there are no extraterrestrials in the area