The hotel itself was just great, especially for the price. Room was very comfortable and quiet with amenities -- A/C, hair dryer, a safe, luggage rack, comfortable desk chair, roomy bathroom. The neighborhood is filled with people, mostly men, drinking all the day long, and it smells like urine. The street at night seems to be used for excrement as well. Toulouse's solution seems to be to send out the street washers and garbage collectors every morning before 6 AM, which certainly helps, but... I will say I did not feel unsafe, the characters seemed pretty harmless, and most of them were gone by 9 PM or so, so walking back to the hotel at night was not an issue. The street one block over was just fine for walking in and out of the downtown, which was a 10-15 minute walk. The hotel restaurant was quite good, and there's a great enclosed patio on the ground floor as well as an open reading room on the first floor. I enjoyed the stay.