We had an reservation problem at another hotel and had to rent two rooms here on our last day in Venezuela and were not very impressed. This hotel is expensive (mid $200 price range) and may have been nice 25 years ago but today the rooms are just shabby and run down. The elevators are missing floor buttons and some floor buttons don't work so you have to walk up or down a couple of flights to a floor where the elevator will stop. This could be a safety problem in a city with a lot of earthquake activity. Our room had a massive dripping leak through the roof from the bathroom above. The furnishings are at least 25 years old. Our king size bed was just two full beds pushed together. The bedding was dirty and probably not changed from the previous visitor. The curtains, bathroom, closets, and cabinets were all pretty beat up. The tiny T.V. wasn't worth watching - The remote was an old funky set of knobs in the headboard. I think I would have been o.k. with the hotel condions... more