This place is very well located for a beach vacation with many eateries within walking distance - but I can't say the food is any good (one time, the fish tasted like cardboard and another night pasta had no flavor other than cream and old dried herbs - this is acceptable in the middle of winter in the blizzard states but hello, this is SoCal at 70F!).

Cute cozy looking room upon entry. But being above a restaurant, it smelled too much like a kitchen rather than a clean room. Late at night (around midnight or later) the process of the restaurant shutting down is loud w/ chairs banging, etc.I wondered what the ruckus was about the first night and when happened it every night....

The bedding is of pretty decent quality though the comforter looked lumpy already. Decent couch to sit on. But how about a little end/coffee table rather than a vacuous floor?

And how about something called a soap dish or a hook to hang towels on? These things are basics that a motel has but this place lacks. It's pretty gross to have towels rolled up near the toilet under the sink (with all the old pipes exposed). A guy can stand outside the bathroom, aim, and pee into the toilet. This bathroom must have been created out of a closet, I think. The shower's the teeniest tiniest one I've ever been in - it makes showers in New York and Paris seem huge. It measures about 2.5 ft x 2.5 ft max. I'm thin and had to stand completely straight to shower. Forget about bending to clean different body part. You'll just get dirty again if you turn as you're guaranteed to touch the wall/shower door. Which is scary as it's not the cleanest shower. And if you want a warm shower, you'd better leave the cold handle in the off position and settle for less pressure. Only a 5 year old would feel comfortable in that shower. The first night I was there the room was freezing. But I just put on a sweater and didn't complain. Then the remainder of the stay, it was stuffy. Consistency would be nice.

But I may have gotten the worst room in the hotel (so it was definitely not worth $200). The day I checked out, 90% of the doors were wide open. The other rooms looked like they had normal sized bathrooms w/ that 80s Miami glass. And some rooms in the back had double french doors w/ trendy above the counter sinks. But they lined the marble (who thought of that bright idea as footsteps on marble is loud?) walkway down to the parking lot that everyone walks by in the morning and therefore offer little privacy and no views.