PlymouthPete19
9 aprile 2024
We booked this hotel for four nights as part of a much longer birding trip around Mexico. The hotel has a nice pool area with bar and restaurant (although the little taco stall 200m up the road has much better food!). The bird names for some of the rooms is a nice touch and the location's good, being close to a big supermarket, other shops, a few restaurants and within short walking distance of the beach. Downtown is c20 min's walk away. However, we encountered a series of problems during our stay. On arrival, our room smelt of drains and the safe wasn't working. We complained and were moved overnight to an upgraded room, and were told that although we'd need to move again the following night, it would be to another king-size room and then we wouldn't need to move again . We agreed to this. But the following day we were told we wouldn't be in this room and had been reallocated to a small queen which was right next to the pool and had no fridge (our original room was a quiet one at the back of the hotel with a fridge). When we questioned this a different member of staff appeared (a manager?) and made it clear he wasn't going to change his mind and just kept repeating that we had only booked a small, cheap, room. It felt like he was trying to humiliate us. Despite having conversations in a bit of Spanish, English and through Google Translate, he refused to address the key point ie that we wanted a room compatible with our original one, preferably without having to move every night, but weren't asking for an upgrade. The room proved very noisy. One night despite the hotel saying the pool closed at 10pm, there were people shouting and screaming there, right outside our window, until well after 11pm with nothing done about it. So we were kept awake when we wanted sleep before an early tour start. The room was very cramped with only about 8cm between the corner of the bed and the wall, on one side, meaning you had to clamber over the bed to get out from that side. To cap it all, our coffee machine was removed from the room and when I went to reception they said it was because we weren't using it correctly. I'd expect to be advised, not suffer a confiscation! Overall it felt like we were being punished for complaining. We were very disappointed as we booked this hotel because we've always found Best Western very good in the past. We certainly didn't enjoy our stay at this one!
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