Pros: friendly host, excellent location, clean, spacious room. Cons: more like an apartment than hotel. No toiletries offered (no shampoo/conditioner or body wash). You receive very small sliver of soap. Small, hard towels. We’ve been staying in Balkins for last two weeks. Everyone air drys their laundry so I wasn’t expecting western standard fluffy hotel towels but host needs to embrace fabric softener. Property seems to be run on very tight budget. Also, hotels.com listing makes you believe there’s a coffee shop perhaps attached to property. Definitely not the case. Free standing. No restaurant, bar or caffe on site. Suppose to be non smoking property but slight smoke odor through out, even on pillows. It’s a smoking culture so hard to say if from previous guests.