I had read all the previous reviews, so I knew in advance the location near plaza Once wasn´t the prettiest or safest, and with a great price like that, including breakfast, I was prepared for a less than perfect experience. But several things happened at the Olmo Dorado that are worth warning you about.

First of all, the good stuff. The staff is great: kind, helpful and knowledgeable. The rooms are generally clean and everything is relatively new. The social areas (dining and solarium) are relatively attractive and comfortable. Breakfast is frugal and montonous, but sufficient. And the location is really not as unsafe as most taxi drivers would like you to think (although the fact that I´m from Colombia might create a bias for that one).

Everything was going great until our third night, when we were awoken abruptly at 8am by a loud banging noise on our wall. Fearing a terrorist attack by giant woodpeckers, we called the front desk, only to discover a new... more