Pros of Casa Pestagua
- The common areas of the hotel are chic & film set ready, very cool & photogenic, I especially liked the outdoor dining area, the formal dining room and the breakfast area.
-Good service. They were able to help with everything from restaurant reservations to car transfers etc., service was attentive, staff were multi-lingual, friendly and sincere.
- I have always preferred boutique hotels with personalities. Casa Pestagua definitely has personality, history & charm
-Perfect location: the vibrant squares, churches, museums & restaurants were an easy hop & a skip away only. With the heat it was always good to be able to go back for a siesta in between sight seeing

Cons
-To keep mossies out (they found me my first day, though the hotel did quickly give me a gigantic bottle of Raid) my bathroom had no air /no fan/ no circulation
- room Two was the cheapest room available (I was on a 3 wk holiday and wanted to watch my expenses) --- it looked out at the ground floor bar area in betw the pool & dining area. I had to keep the curtains drawn & the wooden shutters closed at all times for privacy, the ceiling is also low so it felt claustrophobic as a result. It also got noisy when guests congregated at the bar (with the TV) as my room's only door and windows faced the bar.
About two pm on my last day (Sunday) i'm guessing one of the guests decided to plug their ipod into the hotel sound system, there was no getting away from this music (brass monkey etc) plus TV noise while trying to read & or take a nap. Add to that a bunch of kids were playing in the pool, fortunately of the 4 nights I was here this level of noise only happened on the last night

This hotel was a colonial house that belonged to a marquis, it's really beautiful, the garden it's lovely and very good conserved, the service is also very nice, the stuff it's specially friendly, the breakfast very nice and the rooms are really stylish!!! It's romantic and full of history, I recommend it!

amazing hotel, great location, excellent costumer service. it was worth staying in here, i loved that i could walk to the amazing old town of cartagena and without expending any money on transportation to go back to the hotel.

Architecturally the hotel is very attractive and draws in a lot of passers by to take photos. The centre of old Cartagena is not large but the hotel could not be better located and perfect for enjoying the old town, restaurants and little shops. There are not many rooms in the hotel and so apart from curious passers by we ofton had the whole place to ourselves. We were on holiday with our daughter and our large split level room was perfect for us to be all together but with separate sleeping areas. It was so peaceful we slept like logs. Breakfast sat outside was a leisurely treat with a choice of local or western. The staff were generally very friendly and the reception helped us to book a great day out to Isla Del Encanto. The only reason I did not give 5 stars were a few small niggles: the first night we got in the small pool we were quickly ushered out because they had been adding chlorine (there was only a small warning sign that we had not seen!); the restaurant food was good but the layout did not encourage visitors and so the night we ate there it was dead, i.e we were the only ones in; the bathroom was spacious with a great overhead shower but for the price I would have expected the decor to be much better.