We needed an overnight stop around Leon, and got this place out of the Lonely Planet. Mistake.

Occupying a floor of an apartment block, the Londres is difficult to find, doesn't do breakfast, and stinks abominably of cigarette smoke. Rooms are not particularly clean and the street outside is noisy. There's no double glazing. Don't know about aircon in summer, but we could have used some heat.

Location is good, 15 minutes' walk from the cathedral and old town. There is a really nice coffee shop across Avenida Roma for breakfast.

But the cigarette smoke was a sign that the people who run the Londres have really stopped trying. Perhaps this is yet another example of the Lonely Planet curse?

We really shouldn't have stayed here, but we were a bit too tired to start searching again. more