龐塞德萊昂酒店 (Ponce de Leon Hotel)

good place

Please. For the sake of your sanity and your sleep schedule, do NOT book this hotel. I opened the door and the room greeted me with a smell I can only describe as “freshly wiped panic.” Not clean. Not dirty. Just… unsettling, like the air itself had seen things and wasn’t ready to talk about it. The “boutique” décor? Three hangers. A mattress that gave up a decade ago and a comforter radiating the energy of “many have suffered here.” I spent my first twenty minutes doing a bedbug reconnaissance mission and the next ten praying for emotional strength. This wasn’t a hotel stay. This was spiritual adversity. If the Four Horsemen ever needed a weekend getaway, this is where they’d unpack their saddlebags. Save yourself. Seriously. Book anywhere else.

Good news: Great location and price, and pleasant, professional front desk staff. Bad news: (1) Only one drawer in a night stand for any storage, forcing one to live out of suitcase. (2) Door lock/closing mechanism, although working, was almost falling off the door. (3) No box of tissues supplied with room (4) Tiny bathroom with mini-sized toilet and bathtub that had no anti-slip surface and was not thoroughly clean to boot. (5) No dedicated parking, requiring use of municipal lot about 1/2 block away ($16/day). (6) Weekend street noise (cars & motorcyles speeding and revving) late at night Summary: You get what you pay for.

Overall, a decent place to stay. Has lots of potential but work should be given to spruce it up, even though it’s a very old building. Here are my main reasons for the 3 score rating: -great location downtown and near the pier. Super walkable to lots of great restaurants and shopping. -eclectic, cool atmosphere  -no onsite parking -bedding clean but bedframe was very dirty and scuffed. Bed firm but nice enough.  -floors were hardwood and appeared to not have been mopped or cleaned with something that didn’t rinse properly, very sticky.  -water in shower did not get hot, actually barely got warm  -door lock was broken -windows had no screens, shower window fell out when we tried to open it, most room windows wouldn’t stay opened  -tv was attached to a Roku (with only Roku remote) and had no main remote to adjust TV settings, tv was on a stretch mode so you couldn’t watch a movie or anything easily. -staff was super friendly

good location