TL;DR : This is NOT a hotel. It is a BnB-like accommodation with misleading advertisement. Owner also tries to browbeat negative reviews by threatening calling the cops.
We arrived in a graffiti laden alleyway at around 4pm, well within the 2 to 8pm check-in time (front desk is supposed to be open from 8am to 8pm) to a door with a lockbox.
We ring the location and get no answer. We find a note that says that we need to contact someone through WhatsApp if it's after 2pm. Which is... highly irregular.
Contact the number (good thing we had international data) and no response so I start looking at the lockbox. Within seconds, I get it open and find a bunch of keys. Didn't feel comfortable taking the keys so I tried to close the box again but couldn't anymore.
After nearly 2 hours! I finally get a response after I contacted Expedia to get a refund. He gives me instructions to open the lockbox and tells me it's my fault because we checked-in after 2pm. We got no instructions of that sort from him (or at all).
Turns out, the lockbox code was not one that I had tried which now freaks us out considering how easy it was to open, anybody could have made doubles.
Asked for a refund directly because both not a hotel room or safe and he refused. Ended up going elsewhere. After he saw a negative review on google, he sent us the cop threat.
This is NOT a hotel. Nobody works here. The 8am to 8pm front desk is a lie and is not manned. We even saw other people waiting the next day.