Location and price were decent. The elderly lady at the front desk was civil-enough, but not particularly friendly or helpful. The courtyard was pleasant and lovely-looking. But I don't think I'd go back, and here's why:
1. The little black scotty-dog seemed to us to have very little personality other than his dogged determination to try to urinate on absolutely everything, including our feet and our bags (thankfully we were able to thwart him from those targets, but it was not easy), the pool, the pool shower, the patio furniture, the stairs, walls, potted plants, etc. We arrived early and had to wait about an hour and a half for our room to be ready (certainly not unreasonable or unpleasant in and of itself), but we had to be vigilant and sometimes shoo, yell, flap arms, and/or stomp feet to fend off the urinary intentions of the dang dog. We tried to make nice with him from the start, but he never did show any interest in being petted or talked to nicely. We are dog- and cat-people, but this little guy was straight-up annoying.
2. The room was frankly pretty grubby and grimy. We found a few big globs of previous guests' hair plastered to the bathroom floor and wall. The shower area was pretty cruddy and crusty. We were afraid the bathroom sink was going to completely fall off the wall; it was already cracked away from the wall and sagging at an angle. The corners of the room looked like they had not been swept or mopped in YEARS. There was a VERY thick layer of nasty dust on many surfaces. Without having previously mentioned it aloud, my mother and I both woke up at different times in the night with bad dreams about bedbugs in the room. While the bedbug fears seem to have been (thankfully) unfounded, it speaks to the over all griminess of the room.
I have stayed in a LOT of cheap hotel rooms all over Mexico, and this one was definitely one of the grubbiest ones. Certainly pretty disappointing, compared to the positive reviews. Honestly, we got the feeling that this hotel is just staggering along just on its reputation, the pretty courtyard, and the goodwill of some loyal guests, but that these crutches are not enough to redeem the cruddy room or keep the hotel from falling into serious decline over the next several years, unless somebody steps in and vigorously revives it.