To sum up the disappointments:
1) The bathtub couldn’t drain, so you end your shower standing in grey water.
2) Not clean; piles of long red hair clinging to all points of the chair/setee, and there was a make-up brush and a sort of post-use container lying on a chair. (If you miss things that big, how good could the cleaning be?)
3) The windows (filthy) had no screens, so I had mosquitos to battle in February.
4) Towels were frayed to the point of having no hems, with long strings of threads hanging off them. Shabby chic?
5) The bathroom stunk of what I first thought was sewage, but I came to believe it was sulphur I smelled. This suggests there was no filter or softener in the water system.
6) Cockroaches made a pilgrimage to die in the bathroom.
7) No means to make coffee in the room, when I asked for a kettle, I was offered a filthy Mr Coffee maker, and told I would have to wash it.
8) No coat hangers in the closet.
9) There’s an apartment above the room I stayed in, and I could hear every step of the upstairs residents high heels when she wore them. It was like living in a drum.
10) No instructions for programming the safe, and no way I could figure out to make the TV work.
11) The unit faced the street so I was always waking up to street noise, even though the windows were closed for the mosquitos.
12) The magazines artfully displayed were from October 2018 and Summer 2021.
On the plus side, the staff at the front were all helpful friendly and courteous