It was dingy and cramped with peeling paint and mold in the shower. The bathrooms smell like a sewer and are barely separated from the bedroom. But this was only the tip of the iceberg.
Every day when we left our room, we’d lock the door. And every evening we’d come back to find it fully unlocked. We asked an employee about this and he said only “It’s the cleaning lady.” We had to SPECIFY that we wanted her to lock the door. We returned next day to find the door fully unlocked again.
Finally, on our first evening around 11PM my friend and I were talking in our room, and a woman knocked on the door and asked if we could keep it down. We apologized profusely and were silent from then on. The walls are super thin. There was no music on, no TV, just us having a conversation.
The next day when we were coming back to our room the hotel manager (?) stopped us and said there had been a problem. He said we had been loud. We immediately apologized profusely again. The bizarre thing is that he proceeded to berate us for a good five to ten minutes. He said she had recorded us (HUH?!) and after 10PM you have to be very quiet (no one had said this). He said we were at risk of being kicked out and acted like we had committed a crime. I’ve never felt more unwelcome anywhere. I’m a quiet person, I try very hard not to bother others, and we stopped as soon as we knew. We were terrified the entire rest of our stay, tiptoeing, barely whispering, scared to brush our teeth. Horrible.