After 15 or so years since they did the latest big renovation to the hotel, it's starting to need another round of maintenance. For example, some of the rooms are looking a bit worn down, including balcony and shower doors in mine, that didn't close properly.
The service has never been great, but now it's downright disappointing. The fact that they continue to have only two check-in counters makes the check-in process quite lengthy on holiday periods, and in 4 nights in my room, they didn't leave fresh hand towels once. I always had to call and ask for new towels to be brought up, because they'd take the used ones and leave no fresh ones.
The hotel's location and inexpensive parking (which used to be free) is probably its best feature, but with so many hotels in downtown Veracruz, I think we'll start looking to other options for our next trip.