Ashley Zepeda

Review of the Saguaro - A Joie de Vivre ...

Our power was going out at our home, so we just ne...

Our power was going out at our home, so we just needed a place to stay over night. We weren't looking for a full service hotel or anything, however apparently this hotel is SUPPOSED to be. When we got there, we first went to drop off our things in our room. Then we took a walk around the hotel, mainly to exert my 3 year old. They had some weird stuff outside.. A cheap crochet set up on a fake lawn (which made it hard to play, frankly, even just playing around), and what I believe to be lawn bowling? All useless at night, as much of the outside pavilion. They had a nice large pool though. So that's nice. It looked like it was heated. There are three floors to the hotel.. The first one is below ground, and so awkward. The spa is down there, but doesn't look inviting at all. Two computers for use. That's it. The lower floor is weird. The main floor/lobby is a bar, and restaurant area.. Unless you're drinking, I wouldn't be in that area. They have a nice fitness center. All the machines have a tv attached to them. That's nice. The top floor, all of the walls looked like they just painted over existing wall paper. Again, a very awkward area. Back at the room, it was very mediocre. The patio was not inviting. The bed was hard as a rock, and I barely slept at all. The "fitted" sheet wasn't fitted, and the pad underneath it all of the elastic was broken, so the mattress kept showing and messing up while tossing and turning on it. The pillows were awful, but aren't so bad if you lay on top of them to protect you from the mattress. And the noise was bad. The ice machine was very loud. The elevator was very loud, and the door leading from the outside was very loud. And I heard all of this OVER the air conditioning in the room. The lights in the room were picky, and you had to fiddle with them to turn them on. And the shower head in the shower was piercing, although the water pressure was great, and it stayed hot through two long showers. The towels were weird... they felt like shammies. But they got the job done. Over all, I would not recommend staying at this hotel, unless you like mattresses that hurt to lay on, and noise all night long. I really wanted to like it, because I love colors and that's the hotel's theme.. But I just can't. We ended up checking out early to go home and sleep. I don't know if they stuck us in the worse room they have because we booked on a secondary website or what... But our time was not pleasant.