Here is a review of the place:
“Owner is well-intentioned, but it's a total, last-resort dump”
Reviewed February 24, 2011
Plus side: central, quiet, cheap, available at last minute, free wi-fi, free telephones to USA & Canada .
Negative side: run-down; bugs/mosquitoes; dirty [including a used condom in the shower-- I only stayed the night because it was already 9:30pm when I discovered this, and the options for a place to sleep the night at that point in Sosua were slim & none; in the owner-manager's defense, he commented that he hadn't had time to prep the room; but this is only a symptom of serious problems with this hotel/guesthouse.]
- Stayed February 2011, traveled solo
Right. So say you walk into restaurant on a Tuesday night right before closing and the only table without people eating at it still hasn't been cleared when you come in, that's a sign of a failing business. But if you come in on a Tuesday and all the tables are perfectly set but with no one there, that's the sign of a thriving business?
It's not clear in the review if the guest was a walk-in or had a reservation. In the real world, hotels have the help clean the rooms before noon(and then wash whites and make beds in the afternoon) which is why you need to be out by check-out time or pay a full day. My bet is that the room was occupied until the day help left or had pulled the linens-- the owner got a last minute walk-in or the previous guest had stayed past their scheduled checkout. The other rooms were likely occupied. Sounds like business as usual to me. The bigger hotels don't have to worry about this often since they are rarely full outside of high season. When you have 20-100 empty rooms on any day between Easter and Dec 1rst, a couple walk-ins after 8PM are easy to accommodate.
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