The big, big advantage of Casa are that it is right in the Village so you can walk to restaurants, cafes, entertainment etc. You may want (though you don't strictly speaking NEED) a car to get to the schools, but you can park (for free) and forget it the rest of the time. The beds are extremely comfortable, the sheets nice, the room clean ,the hotel pretty and with a good vibe, the staff is lovely .All that is great. ||Here are some things that are less great. The rooms are form over function. The front wall is glass, looking onto the outdoor walkway and the beautiful courtyard. It's beautiful, however when you are in the room everyone walking by or across the courtyard in other rooms can see what you are doing at all times. You are fully on display unless you close the curtain in which case you have no natural light. So it's your choice--conduct your in-room life in public or in the semi-dark during the day. That is such a bummer. If only they would add sheer curtains to the front glass wall it would help a lot. Since the bathtub is also weirdly in the middle of the room (though you can pull a curtain across the tub for a bit of privacy) you are also potentially taking a bath in public, and even if not you are bathing more or less in front of anyone else in your room. Again, cute design, but not ideal in real life use. The rooms are huge, but the furniture doesn't take advantage of the space and there is no carpeting, which makes the space feel like a big cave (some have rugs, I looked in, but I think those are the pricier rooms). Plus, the music from the lounge sounds like it is right in your room so if you're in your room before nine pm in the evening it will be a loud soundtrack--they provide earplugs for a reason. The music was ok, but I didn't (and couldn't) choose it. Finally, the free breakfast looks good--eggs, bagels, sausage--but is absolutely inedible, really and truly awful, worse than chain hotels cookie-cutter breakfasts. Kind of shockingly bad. I mean, saueeze bottles of smuckers and Jif? That's not really my expectation at a hotel of this price point or quality.||Oh, one more thing: both my husband and I found certain web sites were weirdly blocked. Not even controversial ones. I was trying to look up something about United Airlines fares on reddit and could not get onto the site at all. He wanted to watch a Sex Pistols video on YouTube and it was blocked. Why!?!?||So overall, would I stay again? Probably yes, becuase of the convenience and the overall atmosphere. Being right in town really and truly does enhance your quality of stay in Claremont. But only if the prices were competitive, since they go up and down depending on what's going on at the colleges (as in: graduation weekend? FORGET IT!). If there was a significant difference in cost, I'd just stay at the Doubletree which is fine--it's a Doubletree, no better, no worse--and drive more. Also the Doubletree is near Rev'd Up Coffee which is a fun place for coffee and a quickie breakfast.