Casa Italia advertises as a “Luxury Guest House” rating 4.4/5.
The walls in the room were either unfinished or damaged, the air conditioning was noisy and installed in a way that hits your face all night long, there was a noisy fan attached to the celling, the safety box did not work, the fridge was empty. Simple bathroom, no tube as one would expect form a Luxury place. No gym, no Spa. Basic TV and internet, no personalized services, or any special technology.
There is no restaurant nor room service; a basic breakfast is served by the same person who also seems to have the role of receptionist. The parking lot was around the corner, not very clean; the neighborhood looks awful at night.
As a guest you are given three keys, one for your room, and two for the facility front doors, because after nine PM there is no one available for anything, if arriving after nine PM you must open, and once inside lock the doors again.
The good thing found was the Staff, one person in particular, Robert, who went above and beyond to try to make us feel comfortable, trying to fix all those things that were obviously out of his control. The only reason we did not leave is because we saw so much effort from the staff. There are probably different definitions of Luxury Guest Houses, in my opinion this is not one and its prices are not too much different from other well know hotels around Merida Centro