The only reason I gave this place a star is because there's no "no star" option.
I like a good bargain, therefore, not hard to please. When I saw this place in walking distance to the beach, I wasn't too impressed by the photos, but thought, "Oh, what the heck - I won't be there much, anyway - how bad can it be?"
Oh, baby - I had no idea!
First, they put me in a microscopic room that literally had no more than about 18" of space around the bed. And a TINY bathroom. Because I saw the maids cleaning a different room that was bigger, I went to the front desk to ask if they had any bigger rooms available. They said yes, and reassigned me, telling me it was an "upgrade."
There was a bit more room around the bed. It had one desk, one chair (we requested a second chair, but were denied), and a mini-fridge. No mini-coffee maker, no microwave. There is a small microwave in the hallway to service all the rooms on the floor - which is bad enough. But it's on a timer, so you can't even use it before 10:00am, and it's off at 10:00pm. So there's no morning option for coffee until 10:00. In my world, that could put someone's life in danger! (I'm kidding, but just a little bit).
Perhaps because there are so many junker cars taking most of the parking spaces in reasonable proximity to this place (many of which look like they haven't been moved for YEARS), there's no parking to be found within blocks! Which they remedy by telling you that for $20 cash, they'll give you a parking pass for Best Western a couple of blocks away - an option we chose, since the neighbourhood is so sketchy, we decided it was worth it to keep the cars safe. Then when we got to BW, we learned that we could just pay BW directly for $19/day.
Seriously?? They'd be so much better off working a complementary deal with BW for their clients. They've GOTTA know how bad that neighbourhood is!
The only good thing I can say is with regard to the maid staff. They are all very sweet and hard working, and did everything in their (limited) power to make sure we had what we needed.
That second chair never showed up, though.