Painted Turtle Guesthouse

It was an amazing exercise staying at Turtle, it’s in the middle of downtown, super close to ocean, restaurants and night life is good. I’m definitely staying there again! It was clean n neat, no one disturbed, guests were super friendly.

The bar downstairs is terribly noisy, well after midnight. The room I was booked into had a guy in there who stank so bad I had to ask for another room. And in that next room I was bitten by bed bugs. So ya, not a great experience. The people working there are super friendly and kind, but this place has some serious drawbacks.

This is a terrible hostel. There is a bar downstairs that is super loud all night. The windows in the bedrooms dooms don’t close so the cigarette smoke from the people from the bar goes right into the rooms. The bathrooms were so disgusting and dirty with urine all around the toilet. There was rat droppings in the bedroom, hair on the beds, and the place smelled of mold. I left in the middle of the night.

I arrived about 10 pm and there was a sign saying to phone the night staff and there was no doorbell. My phone was dead and nothing nearby was open so I knocked for twenty minutes before someone came down to check me in. Arriving in the room, I felt a blast of cold air and saw that the heater was completely turned off and the window was open. Even after putting the heater as high as it would go and getting into bed with my winter coat on, I was still shaking with cold two hours later. The hallways were entirely unheated and the bathrooms had a tiny amount of heat with no thermostat to adjust it (meaning i could not have a shower that i was looking forward to and that is included in the rent). Amenities in the room that i remembered from previous stays were reduced (ie one towel instead of two). And the price had gone up, unlike every other hotel that are currently offering lower rates.

J'ai trouvé l'auberge très bien placée et très propre. Un parking public se trouve juste en face, gratuit de 17h à 8h. Les restos et quelques bars se trouvent à quelques pas seulement. Les chambres sont de taille standard et le salon et cuisine plutôt grands. J'ai trouvé l'endroit propre. Il n'y a pas de casiers dans les chambres et j'ai trouvé ça dommage. Il y a des petits "tiroirs" à valeurs que l'on peut verrouiller avec un cadenas mais c'est tout. La jeune fille de l'accueil était très sympa et serviable.