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Hotels kinda start out with four stars and go up or down from there.||How did I dislike this hotel? Let me count the ways.||First, the room is small. I get it that we’re in a hotel in the old city, but small is small. The bathroom is small too. Not terrible, but small. But no deduction.||Second, THERE ARE NO PLUGS AT THE DESK. This is totally unacceptable. There’s a plug three or four feet away. Luckily, I travel with a triple tap and a plug that allows me to charge multiple devices at once. I still had to move devices in and out. This lack of plugs is an automatic deduction of one full star. No usable plugs at the nightstands either. You have to unplug a lamp to free up a plug. USB ports? Don’t make me laugh. Internet was decent, however.||Third, the small desk is ¼ filled with a giant coffee maker (using one plug, by the way), but there’s really no place in the room to move it. There’s also a fridge that uses another plug. I was reluctant to unplug either, as the outlet looked weird.||Fourth, the air conditioner only seems to provide cold air. I could not adjust it to a higher temperature. Luckily, I could turn it off. If it provides heat at all, I was unable to adjust it for that purpose. Both the A/C and the bathroom fans took a long time (minutes) to shut off once you threw the switch. I wasn’t quite sure at first what was going on.||Fifth, I asked for a map and was offered a QR code. I don’t much trust QR codes and lived instead with the Apple Map on my phone. Never stayed in a hotel that didn’t have area maps.||Sixth, Breakfast? A fifth-floor walkup. Now to be fair, I knew that steps were required for this hotel, but five floors?||Seventh, it’s a very noisy hotel. Lots of internal noise, lots of external noise from restaurants and the like, and noise EVERYDAY at 6 a.m. from trash pickup. I still get it that we’re in the city, but the soundproofing is totally nonexistent.||Eighth, large decorative pillows on the bed, with no real place to store them. I just hate it that hotels put this dysfunctional crap in room for guests to deal with. Commonplace objection at many hotels.||Ninth, no hooks for hanging things in the bathroom. The only hooks were used by two bathrobes. In the end, I stuck the robes on the floor in a corner to free up the hooks.||Tenth, the shower worked okay, but it took me several minutes to discover that the knob was misadjusted and that you had to ignore the settings on the knob.||Everything wasn’t terrible. The location is fine, to say the least. Breakfast was okay, if you don’t mind the climb. Staff was friendly and helpful. If there was something else positive, I missed it.||I would not stay here again, despite the location. They are just not trying.