KJordan

Really filthy place - do not bother.

My partner and I, and one friend, booked two rooms at Casa 567 in December, 2013. We found it on Purpleroofs.com, where we have always had good luck in the past. It looks very charming in the photos on the web site, and it certainly has that potential, but we found it to be very dirty – just plain gross actually. Our friend’s room appeared to not have been cleaned before our arrival. There were some kind of pills on the night stand, and the drawers in both rooms were too filthy to put our clothes in. The towels in his bathroom seemed to be used. One, he said, actually smelled like fecal matter. I took his word for it. In our room, we decided to put out clothes on the shelves in the closet, but found those to be coated with a very thick layer of black dirt (or possibly mold) which we cleaned up ourselves. We ended up leaving a lot of our clothes in our suit cases. The whole place was rife with a musty / mildew smell, which made my allergies to crazy – even with the patio doors wide open. Then there was the rotten stench coming from the refrigerator where we were supposed to store any food we brought in, and there were ants (lots) in the sugar we were supposed to use in our coffee. The owner told us were still in the safe part of town, but not to go any closer to the river, and to close and lock our balcony doors whenever leaving the room. We were told by locals that we should not walk alone in that part of town however. Suffice to say, we decided to leave after just one night. The owner seemed dismayed (but not surprised) that we would want to leave, but we explained most of the reasons. I don’t think anyone mentioned the disgusting towel. There was such a long list, it was hard to remember everything that grossed us out. We didn’t ask for any of the deposit back, and he didn’t offer. We were also told by locals that we would not be able to get it back, and apparently this was true. We were able to find a really nice condo at Loma delMar (two blocks from the Blue Chairs beach area) for only slightly more per night. So, save yourself a very bad experience and DO NOT bother with this place.