My girlfriend and I chose Esplendor b/c it had pretty good reviews on all the sites and we wanted to stay downtown. Yes, it is a little noisy (which I saw a lot of the complaints were about) but it's not awful and definitely tolerable. HOWEVER - the few things that I was not pleased with were:
1) We did not have hot water for the first two days.
2) Our bathroom shower was a bathtub/jacuzzi but when I wanted to take a bath there was no bath 'plug' in order to take a bath - and they did not understand what it was that I was asking for, and they finally brought a 'plug' - which ended up being for the bathroom sink!
3) Our phone could not receive incoming calls.
4) We 'splurged' a little and got the 'suite' - which on the website makes it look like it has an extra room, and small table and chairs, but our room had none of that. I was disappointed that the website made it look like the suite was more than what it was. When I asked about it they said they would check into it but then didn't hear anything else about it (but then again, I didn't ask about it again either).
5) They said they had to put a 'pending' charge on my card (the first day we checked in) and ended up making the charge $500 more than what it should have been - this brought my balance to zero and I couldn't get money out of my account. They said they could cancel it but it would take 10 days for the cancel to go through. Luckily I could transfer money from another account, and they apologized for 'overcharging', but couldn't do anything to fix it after it was done. The final charge was correct but the 'pending overcharge' screwed up my expenses for the trip.
I don't want to make it sound like it was awful - because it was not. The bed was extremely comfortable, the shower was nice when it was hot, THE STAFF WAS EXTREMELY FRIENDLY, the continental breakfast was great, the hotel itself is very charming, and the room was pleasant. I was just expecting a little more quality from the amount we were paying and some of the problems were frustrating to deal with.













