Stayed in a suite for 3 nights. It was free using Choice Hotel points in my account that were going to expire this year.
The hotel interior is pretty nice, and the lobby is set up nicely. There are some tables and chairs set up where they serve breakfast and there are 3 computers and a couch and large screen TV. There is wireless internet in the lobby. The rooms are exact carbon copies of any room you'd find at any Choice Hotel (ex. Comfort Inn) in the states, down to the colors of the comforter and carpet.
Pros
-location (aside from being next door to HDR, it's a block from Mas X Menos/Ave Central, 2 blocks from Bank of Costa Rica)
-clean
-very good breakfast buffet (3 hot foods (scrambled eggs, gallo pinto, and a 3rd dish that changed daily (yucca, steak and onions, sausage aka hot dog
), plus, 4 types of fresh fruit, cereal, coffee, 2 types of fresh juice, milk, yogurt, toast, croissants.-good casino on premises
-exchange rate for guests was 505 (bank was 506), but only $100 max
-didn't feel like anybody was judging me or looking down on me (then again, I didn't do the "perp walk" through the lobby with a hooker in high heels)
Cons
-weak in-room internet (1 or 2 bars at best and about 25% of the time I got no signal at all)-not a good choice if you need internet to do anything important
-$25 chica fee (I wasn't going to bring any chicas there anyway, but just wanted to share in case anybody was curious)
-I hate the fact that the windows don't open. No fresh air. That fucken air conditioner (even just set to "Fan") makes me wake up with a sore throat. There's no way to point the air flow away from you.
-my wife bought a souvenir from their gift shop that costs about 5400 colones. She gave the clerk a 10k bill and she couldn't make change. Are you kidding me? They list themselves as a 4star hotel, but they can't break $20 (all they needed was 4k in bills). She ended up giving her 2 red 1k bills, 2 rolls of ¢100 coins (1k each), and some loose change. I just gave the rolled coins back to the bell boy and driver as tips. I know it was only 9am (they opened at 7) but come on.
I still have some more points to use up, so I may stay there again, but I wouldn't pay those prices for those rooms (plus their elevator fee is $25).
