The hotel is actually pretty nice inside, and the room and bathroom was nice. It's centrally-located, just a few blocks from the Malecon (ocean boulevard) in the old city, and this is the problem....the noise! The street that it's on, Beller, is somewhat of a secondary thoroughfare, linking the historic district from the boulevard. My room was on the 2nd-floor, next to this street, and it was a LOUD! I didn't sleep more than 1-2 restless hours, with my phone turned on high to rain noise! Besides the location of the room itself, the window was of little use to stop the noise (with a big gap), and it was like (trying) sleeping on a scaffold with the cars and motos passing underneath. This went on steadily until after 3:00 in the morning, and then resumed at full speed around 6:30-7:00 Sunday morning. If you've never been in the D.R., almost every road is a racetrack, and the young kids like to make their motos as loud as possible, incessantly toot their horns at intersections (or any other slight inconvenience), and ride like idiots, speeding through the streets! The hotel itself was actually nice....if you can sleep through an earthquake, combined with a hurricane! I know that I won't be back, and I will warn anybody that might think of staying (without earplugs)....do not let them give you rooms #2,3,4,5 on the 2nd-floor, or any room on the street-side (Beller).....it might have been a nightmare, if I'd actually slept!