Hotel Bresciani — Hotel in Guatemala City

During the kids' spring break, we took a trip to Guatemala. Arriving the first night around 9 p.m., our goal was to bunk into a clean, safe accommodations that wouldn't break the bank. ||||The first hotel we tried (Hotel Proceres) was dark, dingy and had incredibly cramped quarters. To be fair, it was only $30/night, but no one in my family was thrilled about the thought of staying there. Our taxi driver suggested Hotel Bresciani, so we took a look. ||||Much better. Much, much better. Clean rooms with 2 full-sized beds each, fresh looking linens, a minibar in the room that didn't break the bank, air conditioning that worked well and a TV that got numerous English channels in addition to the Spanish ones. Moreover, as it was Easter weekend and the city was fairly empty, we got a special rate of $50/night. (Typically, it's $70/night, taxes included. Still a good deal in my opinion.) The hotel manager, Gustavo Marroquin, was also very helpful and gave us some ideas for traveling to other parts of the country. ||||On balance, it was well worth the cost and I would recommend it. Just two notes of caution: ||1) while the hotel says it has a gym, all it had was a half-finished room on the roof with some cheap equipment and no electricity for the treadmill; and ||2) avoid the hotel's restaurant/bar. While they have a menu, they get their food delivered from somewhere else...we tried it one evening. Yuck. Also, if you decide to get a drink in the hotel bar (which I do not recommend doing), be sure to ask how much it will cost. They tried to charge me $13 for a margarita with one ounce of tequila and 2 ounces of mix (they called it 3 drinks -- guess they just do shots there). I told the front desk person that it was unacceptable to charge so much for a 3 oz. drink (given that a good restaurant we visited charged just $6 for a better margarita), so they took it...

Hotel is well centrally located, convenient access, rooms are clean, people are friendly and cant beat the price of $50 USD a night with basic breakfast included.||These are my issues: There is always NOISE of all kind,,,,,,,||* traffic from outside street when traffic is bad.||some dogs in adjacent properties crying or barking||noise from people who decided to hold up a football soccer tournament last night on the street||* noise from employees,,this part is the worst. I do not understand why there is so many people working here for such small hotel. They are everywhere and they start gathering, chatting and joking around and they become too loud, sometimes with bad words since I can understand the language. this is everywhere, lobby, restaurant area, outside the rooms. They are all checking they mobile phones all times and walking around to lobby killing time and eating chips hidden in their pants pocket and leaning at every other wall available . I had to wait at the lobby few times to be picked up and this is very annoying.||For this employee noise and behavior I will NOT stay here again||Breakfast is very basic and not to choose from it either scrambled eggs or fried eggs ,those are the choices, included is a very bad coffee, a little fruit sample and orange juice. If you wish anything else is extra and they push hard for it. I never gave in.||||If the hotel wishes to contact me, please go ahead. I rather pay more and stay somewhere this issues make my stay more enjoyable. This hotel has lots of potential to be a great boutique hotel. It all about these little details. I am sure the employees are nice people and try hard but the management need to supervise these details and train their staff||Forgot to mention that sometimes I run out of hot water...

; We made this reservation based on the positive reviews,However, we were very dissapointed. ||.After seeing the deplorable condition of the room we decided to stay that night and move out the next day. We found the furnishing old, tired and peeling ,room dark ,window that doesn't open, bedding shamefully old tattered and appeared dirty, towels discolored, A/C That that was so noisy we had to immediately turn it off, Fridge that did not work, faucet was rusty, shower head was rusty with water stream barley dripping, there is no elevator, so luggages had to be carried up three the flight of stairs, However, the lawn and outside was clean nicely kept. The staff was very helpful.The breakfast was mediocre.However, what was so horrible, was saved by an extremely helpful Alejandra a young woman in the hotel Restaurant, she not only spoke English, she found us a safe and honest Taxi Driver who spoke enough English to effectively communicated with us who took us, around for a very reasonable price .What was so disappointing was honestly saved by Alejandra in the hotel restaurant.. ||We selected this hotel based on the positive reviews. However, I think we need to be honest in our evaluations, not only for other guests, but also for the owners so that they can fix...