We stayed at The North Star hotel for about 5 days, December 2014, and we left because of several problems.||||First, the place is too far away from town, and costs way too much for what you get.||||Second, the area is dismal, and lacks anything to do.||||Third, the WiFi is extremely sketchy and drops connection numerous times (about once every half hour). This means it needs to be reset, but the lady who works there will try and sell you a story about the WiFi being down all over town because she doesn't want to bother resetting the router/modem herself. We just took to powering it off and back on ourselves. Annoying.||||Fourth, (it gets worse), there were numerous mosquitoes, ants and we saw three different cockroaches in the room! The guy gave me some Raid to kill the first cockroach, but said he was too scared to deal with it himself, so I had to kill the roach and dispose of it myself. Disgusting.||||Fifth, the hotels rooms are all close together, and because of the comings and goings all night of other guests, it is hard to sleep.||||And lastly, we had an issue where we had paid the first night, but because we were so tired on arrival, we stupidly never got a receipt. Now this was our fault, but when we told the owner we had paid, and questioned the issue with her, her attitude stank. She is one of the many untrained people that you can find in the service industry who know nothing about customer service, never mind about basic politeness. She was dismissive and uncaring.||||We left because we found a better hotel in the center, which was cheaper. It was silly of the owner of The North Star to treat us with such a bad attitude, because she would have gotten 7 more days/nights out of us. But she did not seem to care, as they were fully booked, apparently, although they did get very confused over their own reservations when we spoke about it.||||The pros: the shower was nice and hot and worked OK, although it did get water all over the floor. There are some traveler services nearby you can use, such as a super quick laundry on the corner, and some cheap eateries nearby, but be careful of the dangerous and wide streets surrounding the hotel..||||One major issue with this hotel is that they lock the main gate at ALL times. This is the only exit, and the workers have the key upstairs. There is no way out without the key, and so if there is a fire, there could potentially be a disaster here. There are no back door escapes or windows to jump out of, so BEWARE! When I bought this up with the lady who worked there, she just shrugged her shoulders and did not give a damn. You've...
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