We arrived at 9pm & there was a party at the pool--screaming children, people barbecuing, etc.
Of course we were given a room directly above the pool, & when we opened the door, there was a large three wick candle burning on the table that was emitting a noxious scent. Since the windows don't open, the entire room was filled with this sickening odor, & we were creeped out because we were sure it was covering some worse odor (& because there was an open flame in a hotel room & we weren't sure if the room was already occupied), so we went & asked to have our room changed.
We requested a room on the back of the hotel (due to the intense freeway noise & the pool party) which was considerably more quiet, & when we entered the room it appeared to be OK, save for the fact that it was probably 90° in the room.
Now mind you this is on the central coast where it's only about 60° outside, so that was odd.
We turned on the air conditioner & it worked for 2 minutes before it shut itself off.
We subsequently turned it on 3 more times & after 2 minutes each time, it shut itself off.
We called a maintenance person who verified that it in fact was shutting itself off, & while we were waiting we noticed that there were both food & a candy wrapper in plain sight on the floor, so we again moved to our now 3rd room.
Though the sheets were clean, the room smelled like weed & all the surfaces were covered with a thin film of Highway dust/residue that turned our cleaning tissue black.