Hotel Casa de Oración San José

Clean rooms/ bathroom

Poor ventilation. At the morning all the room smells food. Room 301.

The hot water of the shower arrived promptly and the water pressure was great, which is a delight in this area. The bed was really comfortable. There was a 24 hour convenience store across the street, and a lavanderia just around the corner. It was close to the zocalo and a nice park. The wifi *worked* (he said raising his hands and shrugging). There was a restaurant downstairs with decent service and decent food.

The street noise on that corner is HARSH! Constant honking yelling and traffic noise. There are street food people who work that corner too, and there is one guy who whistles harshly all day, plus cars going by with speakers selling their wares. From at least SEVEN IN THE MORNING! The hotel moves cool air through flues in the center of the building that have windows into them. There is something mechanical in the building that screechingly operates and transmits this sound to every room through these flues. It starts even earlier than the traffic noise. it stops and starts irregularly and is jarring, but ends in the later afternoon. You CANNOT sleep in at this hotel.

Staff were friendly and breakfast included was good. Brekky was eggs and either ham, bacon or chorizo with black beans, tea or coffee, fruit or fruit juice. Nice walk into the town through variety of shops and streets.

Location was on the corner of a local bus drop-off/pick-up street which meant quiet a bit of tooting and noise during afternoon and early evening. This died off to allow sleep and was starting up again by 8am.