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The Hotel Bahia Blanca Is Not Luxury But You're Treated Like Family

Last month, Amanda Pressner gave Jaunted a report on her jaunt down to Colombia. This week, she is giving HotelChatter reviews of the hotels she checked into during her trip. Any questions or suggestions about the Colombia Hotel Scene? Let us know. Enjoy.

Provided you’re willing to shell out the bucks, it’s never that difficult to find a decent night’s sleep, no matter where on the planet you go. But once you put the term “budget” before your title of traveler, well, that’s when you start playing the game of hotel room roulette

Unable to assess the quality of the backpacker lodging in the seaside Colombian city of Santa Marta simply from the web, my guy Jeff and I waited until we’d been dropped off in the city, at dusk, to choose our hotel. After immediately rejecting the so-called best waterfront lodging (we wonder—do the Lonely Planet people actually enter the asylum-like places they recommend so fervently?) we opted for the Hotel Bahía Blanca, a quaint ground-level property with about a dozen rooms flanking a small, but pleasant interior courtyard.

It appeared that we were only two a few guests in residence at the time, but in theory, that meant more personalized attention from the staff.

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