First of all, I would like to award the hotel a few points for its location.
It is walking distance from the bus terminal but not close enough to where
you hear the buses from the hotel. It is also not right in the hustle and bustle
of downtown Iguazú, yet it is close enough
to
walk.
It
has
a few
restaurants
and
kioskos
nearby
where you can pick up some food and drinks at prices better than you would
find in
town or in your hotel room minibar.
Although
it is at least a half hour away from the falls, I think it is better to be
where it is than do what some hotels attempt which is to be half way between
the falls and town.
Although I would have loved to stay at the Sheraton, which
is right in the park of the falls, it was booked solid for months. But even
if it wasn't, I probably would have turned down the room based on their exhorbant
prices. Plus, you will most likely spend a lot of time in town
so
its
nice
to
be close to it.
That
said,
although
the
hotel
makes
some
very
good
attempts at providing a nice place and comfort, as in the hotel lobby for example
with a nice bar, casual sitting area, one Internet terminal, and a small boutique,
the rooms themselves could have been a little better.
All the important things, in my opinion, where good. There were no bugs anywhere
in our room or the hotel, there were no weird smells or that overly-humid stink
you sometimes smell in a cooped-up room, there was a fully stocked mini-bar
and air-conditioning
(although you had to request by
phone
that it be turned on and it took a few hours to cool the room down), the bathroom
was clean, shower was good/hot/strong, beds were as comfortable as any standard
hotel bed, and the carpet, sheets, and towels were all clean. The room had
a TV but we never turned it on. If you need a lot of light, you might have
a problem as the lights were kind of dim. I think they did this so you wouldn't
notice the imperfections in the room; the peeling wallpaper or chips in the
walls and furniture for example. But I have traveled to enough tropical places
to see this quite a bit so again, I do not consider it an important negative.
I can just imagine the expense a hotel would have trying to keep all of this
in perfect condition in this type of weather. The Hotel cost about 268 pesos per
night for a double room. That is about $90 US at the current exchange rate.
Unfortunately, I did not think at the time to take any pictures or video of
the inside of the hotel, but here is a video clip of the outdoor facilities
we took when we arrived. Since we arrived early in the morning, we had a
couple of hours to kill before we could check-in so we checked the place out
then
headed into town. They were nice enough to hold our bags in their luggage
storage area. Overall, I would recommend this hotel for its location and the
price range. For
more info about this hotel, check out their web site.
If you
are willing to spend about four times more, than you could stay
at the
Sheraton which is right at the falls, I have some video of it I will post in
the new few weeks so keep an eye out for that and more on "The Garganta del Diablo," "Wanda Mines," "Güira
Oga: The house of birds," "Indigenous peoples tour," "The
Port of Iguazú," and the "Triple Frontier between Argentina,
Brazil and Paraguay
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