I arrived about an hour after checkin time. There was no one else in the lobby, but the desk clerk made me wait for about ten minutes while he shuffled papers and did other things. Then he checked me in and told me they had no rooms ready. No apology, no explanation. He just made me wait about twenty minutes while they cleaned a room. Again, there was no one else in sight, so they were not incredibly busy. He also asked for a thirty dollar cash deposit on top of the room fee; I have never had that before. The room itself was fine, but it was next to the street and very noisy. The area around the hotel is not clean; it is downtown Tijuana, so nothing is sparkling, but this area smells bad and is much more poorly kept than, for example, the main street Revolución, even though it is only about three blocks away. But I am used to Tijuana, so that was not the issue; the bigger problems were the very poor checkin and the noise. All-in-all, I will not be going back to this hotel.