If you want to be in the middle of the action day and night-this is your hotel!
The main thing going for this hotel is its location-right next to the mezquita. If you are lucky or unlucky to have a room where you gaze upon it from your window you will share the excitement of every single person who yells, talks, laughs, poses, mingles, and every other human interaction that occurs mere feet from where you sleep.
It is loud. Very loud. There is also music, which apparently by law must end at midnight. I didn’t time this but it went past when I would have preferred some quiet to go to sleep.
The target clientele at this hotel is probably not me and my husband. We are mid 60’s, well-travelled, and while not exactly prime specimens of physical fitness, we can manage our luggage and walk without embarrassing ourselves.
Several reviews have mentioned that this hotel does not have an elevator. This is not exactly true. There is an elevator. It was operational. However it goes only to a number of rooms at the top of the hotel. Our room, on the second floor was not served by this elevator. However, it would have been far easier to take the elevator up to the higher floor and walk down the significantly fewer stairs than to struggle up the many more steps with our backpacks and rollaboards to get to our room. Why didn’t e were two women at the desk when we checked in. One of them could have offered to help us with our