I knew this wasn’t going to be a modern, up to date hotel, and expected the bad decor. Unfortunately, it 1000% lived up to that and then some.
What I didn’t expect, was that the bed itself was 40+ years old and so worn out that it dipped like a horrid, spring filled crater in the middle. It was a recipe for agonizing back pain that not even the young and invincible could escape after sleeping on that dinosoar.
The sofa looked & felt like it too was born in the 80s. It sank halfway down every time we sat on it, and you could literally feel how long it’s been since the upholstery had been cleaned. It was not a pleasant feeling.
As a matter of fact, not one fixture in the hotel room looked like it had been updated since 1987 at best. And it wasn’t done well back then either.
It’s one thing to have tacky or outdated decor, and another thing entirely to have the basic things you rely on when staying at a hotel to be in such bad condition.
A decent mattress that doesn’t hurt should be a given, and the upholstered surfaces should be sanitary. Anaco Bay utterly failed in this respect.
Less dire but equally unsavory issues were the lack of any sense of basic hospitality or communication. The manager seemed like he couldn’t have cared less, and failed to mention simple things like what the wifi password was and the fact that there would be no housekeeping without requesting it from the front desk that was never manned.
For $175 a night, you would expect more than this.