Café Hotel Tucán — Hotel in Alajuela

Please, stay away from this rat hole. I have never seen anything as atrocious as this place. Dirty bathroom, a tiny fan for two beds and a thin glass with a curtain separation the hall from the actual room. Of course, hot as hell! I left in a matter of 3 minutes. A friend try wifi and you guesst it,,, not working. For 20 dollars more we end up staying at the Aloft, wow what a difference.Just in case after talking to a person waiting, he said, the hotels here in the center if Alajuela are pretty much the same quality...wow. Pick a real hotel for a few dollars more, your family and friends will appreciate the gesture. A good night sleep is gold!!!||Good luck...

Located just 2 blocks from the beautiful central park and on the same street that comes strait from the airport. Banks, restaurants, stores, parks & museums are a block or two. Alajuela bus stations are at walking distance what makes traveling to San José very easy. Major taxi service arrives to the hotel in aprox. 2-3 min.||Hotel employees are friendly and provide information and guidance when required.||Rooms are clean, have A/C, hot water, closet, TV and even a small refrigerator, wifi was good and stable.||Even though it's in the heart of the city, it's in a quiet area so there's no street noise in the rooms.||There's free parking.||Hotel does not have...

When we checked in, our room wasn't ready. Apparently there was a misunderstanding so it wasn' cleaned. No problem, such things can happen.||However what we didn't expect was the 'wildlife' we found in our room and in the bathroom: roaches. We told the owner and he promised to solve the problem. After a couple of hours we returned and nothing happend. The roaches were still there. Eventually we removed them ourselves.||We've paid 40 dollar US which is a lot of money, but we've seen it before in Costa Rica and in the rest of Central America. You don't always get what you pay for, but they think they can get away with it because you're a gringo. We don't...