This hotel sounded cool and fun, especially for a little spontaneous trip with my new husband, and it came at a budget price because it was unbooked for that night. So yeah, I was excited to check it out.
I guess I missed the part about the music being “appreciated” extremely loudly and without a hint of rhythm for almost the entire stay. There’s a recording studio on another floor and apparently no soundproofing efforts at all have been made, it’s just atrocious. So you gotta be a very specific person to not only be able to tolerate that, but to be willing to pay way more than the rooms are worth despite the god awful noise in the background the whole night.
The rooms are NOT worth the price, I would not pay $30 a night for the room we were assigned, The Carlos Santana Room. It is one of the closest in proximity to the recording studio racket, and when I asked (within moments of getting to my room, before anything had been moved at all, mind you) to be moved to a room further away from the noise due to my husband’s migraine (he was vomiting and could not stand, it was so bad, and that was BEFORE he got stuck with the clattering of drums and screaming noises coming from below us.) the front desk staff rudely let me know that no such rooms existed, which was a total lie, as they were still trying to get the unbooked rooms booked using third party websites at that time. It was really upsetting because we paid money for a room that was actually causing my husband excruciating pain at that point, and staff didn’t care at all.
The room was small, with a dirty mini fridge, a tv that wasn’t functional because the remote didn’t work with it, nor could the roku app on our smartphones because you have to have the TV and your device on the same wifi network and the TV was set to a different wifi network than guests are permitted to use here. So it simply did not work at all. The floors were a little dirty, as were the sheets, nothing INSANE but honestly it didn’t look like they’d been actually cleaned between guests. And that’s unsettling.
The worst part, though, was the random loiterer, a VERY manic and visibly tense and severely menacing individual sitting in the little area outside the bathrooms on our floor. They had a few bags of drugs just sitting out, and they were clearly using drugs there, a pipe and torch sat out as well and they smelled and behaved like they were smoking m*th. They were pretty large in size and honestly kind of threatening. It was a huge problem, because I asked if they were in line and they said no, then gestures towards the bathrooms. Both were unoccupied and available. I went in and went to the bathroom, I was almost too scared to leave when I was done, but obviously I had to. And when I left, the person gave me this bizarre smile, and went into the bathroom I’d just used with their paraphernalia and then locked the door loudly. It was so strange, obviously they could have used the other stall all along. And I don’t think they had a room key, because they leapt up to get the door before it locked when I came out. So who is just randomly stalking the bathrooms at a hotel, getting twacked out and creepy like that?? Where was management?? Not at the front door or at all locatable. Because I wanted to alert them but they were nowhere to be found.
All in all it was a really bad and unsettling stay.