I have not stayed at tne Pension Mesa in a couple years, but I have been a regular visitor there for nearly three decades and I love the place. There are about two dozen rooms arranged around two internal courtyards in a centuries-old building. To either side are a restaurant and a bar with service ports through the walls (which are thick enough to repel cannon balls). You never really need to leave. It is near the corner of 10th avenue and 10th street in Zone 2, and the Zone qualifier is an important one since there are about 17 different 10th & 10th intersections in Guat. City. Private rooms were about US$1.50 the last time i was there. Bathrooms are down the hall. Hot showers are available. The hotel owners have in the past picked me up at the airport on my arrival. Bad thing: It seems to be directly in the flight path of both takeoffs and landings, but then so is everything else in downtown Guatemala City. Good thing: It is about as centrally located as is possible to be. This place is very much for the adventurous. You'll fit in if it interests you to know that Che Guevara reportedly was a guest there during the short-lived reign of Jacobo Arbenz, a freely-elected leftist president overthrown by the CIA and United Fruit in 1954.