Lafayette Hotel and Suites

Nice pool gathering place, neighborhood restaurants close by.

The only positive thing I can say about this hotel is that it was located near downtown San Diego. The hotel may be "historic", being built in the late 1940's, but it has not been kept up. Our room, while spacious, was poorly maintained, with peeling paint, antiquated amenities, dirty worn out furniture and appointments. It was especially substandard for the price charged. Our room was not ready when we tried to check in at 4:30 pm (3:00 pm was the stated "check in time") and we had to sit and wait until 5:00 pm to get access to our room. The "breakfast" was minimal (bagels, cereal and waffles), served in a sterile room with no windows. All in all, we will never go back.

We first checked in it was fine . I had to leave and left my wife and daughters at the pool it was packed with gay men and women playing footsie with each other I shortened our stay to four days . The housekeeping was also bad their were four of us and would only leave one towel and facecloth I even had to ask the front desk for toilet paper. Lastly they are remodeling and parking is bad we picked up a nail and had to repair a tire on the rental

We arrived late at night, and the neighborhood didn't feel very safe, especially for two single girls. Once inside the hotel, we felt secure and I was relieved to find out they had underground parking. We didn't get to see the hotel much during the day as we left very early the next morning, but the accommodations were quite comfortable, clean, and spacious.

The room was not what I expected. It did not have a refrijerador or microway or coffee pot , like it show in the picture when we booked. I went and talk to the manager and there reply was that they are remodoling to be old fashion like it was before, they said that [...]was the only companey that have not take the old picture from your page. Olson some of the attendence were rude especially Lady name [...], rude at breckfast time.

The building is in need of great repaired. Roaches in bathrooms and holes in walls. Mildew on walls also. The area was unsafe and nasty.

It would have been nice to have a little in house store with inexpensive bathing suits, toothpaste, shampoo, gum, or little things that you may have forgotten. Or maybe a little shuttle that could go to the valley mall to buy those things. A taxi costs $15 to and $15 dollars from so I didn't have a bathing suit to try out the beautiful pool.

Good: The service people are very kind and hard workers. Bad: Bathrooms without exhaust fan, no swimming pool for kids. Some people at front desk are not honest. Really Ugly: in the hotel from 12pm to 6pm come many people from outside (no hotel guests) to drink alcohol sold by hotel staff (I guess) around the swimming pool and is not good, specially if you have kids

We were in San Diego to get away for a few days, sit on the beach, and take in some of the local fare. We have stayed at the Lafayette several times over the last 10 years and were surprised that this hotel was taken over by new management and we noticed that some things about this hotel were immediately different. First, the breakfast is quite different. Previously there was a full breakfast available and now there is some cereal, bagels, and waffles with coffee and juice. This is a far cry from what this hotel used to offer and one of the things that kept us coming back to this hotel. Our room could have used a mirror outside of the bathroom, we had to get ready to go for the day one person at a time when we normally have a grooming area right outside of the bathroom. The shower varied in temperature from scalding hot to freezing cold the entire time we were in it. One positive is that the new hotel owners opened up the parking under the hotel, it was nice to be able to park and not worry about the vehicle being parked outside of the hotel.

The hotel did not have our reservation when we arrived. We had to wait about an hour for them to figure it out. We asked for a blanket--never got it. Coffee empty in the lobby--had to wait and wait--it never came. Staff did not know general tourist information like when Sea World opened. We were told to call the number on the brochure to find out. Our room was clean and comfortable. However we had to go find our own cups for water. The first night there was no hot water. It was on the low end of any hotel we have ever stayed in.