We liked the place overall. We understand that we were warned about short showers etc., however we feel that the reason for this was dishonest. Apparently it’s due to the ‘eco building’ and the purpose is to save water… Except you can use as much water as you want as long as it’s cold and not heated using electricity. There are little white attachments on both the water heater and room heater that turn off the electricity at a certain point. This is purely and simply to save the hosts money, not save the planet. When you’ve paid decent money to rent somewhere, you don’t want to be uncomfortable. However the water heater is set to completely shut off either a) at a certain time during the evening or b) after a certain amount of electricity consumption. One night (after hot water hadn’t been used for hours) at around 10pm I went to wash my face with warm water before bed and there was none, it’s very cold in Mexico City at night so the water was freezing. The room heater will also only stay on for 1 hour at a time and the highest setting is barely warm. I asked the hosts about this and they said it’s because it could burn the floor… There’s no way a heater that weak could burn anything. So again, left in the cold. It definitely tainted our experience.
If you’re going to be cheap, fine, but be honest about it. Just trying to save a bit of extra money is making your guests very uncomfortable.