Welcome to the Opera House Hotel. What brings you to the South Bronx?

Not a cab, perhaps, as the mayor of San Juan, P.R., learned last week when one refused to take her to the hotel from Manhattan.

But a highly unscientific survey of the hotel’s guests on Sunday yielded plenty of reasons tourists would come to a two-year-old boutique hotel lodged behind the Beaux-Arts facade of a century-old theater in the borough that still, apparently, strikes fear in the hearts of cabbies.

“The room was phenomenal,” said Jennifer Montrose, 26, who had driven with her boyfriend from Richmond, Va., to see a Major League Soccer game at Yankee Stadium nearby. “The ceilings are super high.”

“We wouldn’t think of coming anywhere else,” said Michael Bolton, a consulting software tester from Toronto who was in the Bronx for business and brought his wife and 11-year-old daughter along. “It’s right on the subway, and you pay literally half of what you pay in Manhattan.”