I would return to El Senador, the good outweighed the bad. This is the second hotel in a row I was assigned room 207.
Good:
WiFi. Finally!!! It stayed connected most of the time. I only had to login once. Moderate to good signal strength
-easy to find
-Nice lobby with couches
-very large room
-lots of counter space
-firm pillows
-Very little street noise in this room, except for the person who honked eight times in the huge garage at 3 AM
-close walk to Mercado Hidalgo
Moderate
-The neighborhood is not considered safe by many. Even my Uber driver warned me to be very careful at night. I have spent several stays in Doctores, and I have never felt unsafe.
-towels were not good (or bad). Frayed and dense. And they had a different hotel logo on them, LOL
-free bottled water
-free toiletries were unmarked and I think I washed my hair with hand cream.
Bad:
-I arrived to a room with no toilet paper
-there was only one hanger in the closet
-no drawers
-plastic bedspread. Seriously!
-terrible electrics. While there were light switches above the middle of the bed, there was no electric outlet within 4 meters of the headboard. This means you can’t plug in your phone or laptop and work in bed unless you bring an extension cord (which I do bring now). The quality of the lights and placement it’s not conducive to reading at night anywhere in the room.
-backachingly hard bed.
-2 Nights and I still don’t know which shower knob turns on the hot water