We stayed here on the basis of a Lonely Planet guide listing. We were looking for a place sort of near the airport that would accept us for just one night, as we were leaving the next day and our previous hotel had no availability.

I was up the whole night getting eaten by mosquitoes. My wife slept through the night but was so sickened by the musty smell in the room the next morning that she actually threw up. The air conditioner in the room didn't seem to work, though there was a color television that received, strangely enough, a local NBC station from New York City.

On the positive side, breakfast was decent and the staff was friendly and, rare for Guadeloupe, spoke some English. The swimming pool was very small, surrounded by rotting decking, and full of debris.

The restaurant was closed for dinner so we drove to a restaurant recommended by the front desk at the hotel, "The Green Lizard," which was surprisingly good.

One of the other two couples at breakfast also had a Lonely Planet guide with them.

Some may find this old-style hotel charming -- a coconut fell from a palm tree outside our porch, and there was a bouganvillea blossoming near the entrance -- but we thought it badly needed a renovation, or at the very least some air freshener and mosquito netting.