San Pedro de Atacama hotellit lähellä R.P. Gustavo Le Paige Archaeological Museum

Plussat: fantastic staff, great common area, location and ambiance

Miinukset: the rooms are a bit to right. bathrooms are a bit too small

Plussat: Updated, very nice and clean. Great service and excellent restaurant. Free champagne and water bottle.

Miinukset: Parking was not gated and you need to walk a bit offsite to get to it. Room got very warm bit they did provide a fan on request. Was expecting a better pool for the price but it was still nice enough. I traveled a lot to different places and this was overpriced for what you get.

Plussat: Nicely refurbished since our last visit. Superior rooms were a treat. Nice grounds. Friendly and helpful staff. Great breakfast. Very tranquil place to stay.

Miinukset: Room 508 is next to the kitchen and therefore noisy try and avoid.

Plussat: Complimentary bottles of water in your room every day, breakfast box for the early excursion days. Complimentary champagne and chocolate, very heart-warming staff and a ncie pool for relaxing after long days in the desert.

Miinukset: The music from the restaurant started very early in the morning, and we could hear it in our room. But it was not too loud and probably it is something that only happens in that room, due to its location close to the terrace area of the restaurant.

Plussat: Pidin isäntä - Gustavostakovasti. Hän oli helposti lähestyttävä, vitsikäs ja auttavainen.

Miinukset: ?

Plussat: Nice little hostel within 10 minute walking distance from the city center. Its very clean and overall well serviced by amazing host Gustavo. Gustavo was extremely helpful during out stay, always trying to make us feel comfortable.

Plussat: Very clean. Located near the bus terminal.

Miinukset: There were no lockers in the room, although advertised as such. Gustavo was a wierd individual, unpleasant to be around. My stuff was moved around everyday in the dorm room (during cleaning) but nothing missing. You are not allowed to use the main entrance, just the garage. One public washroom for the dorm room, so you could wait for awhile. There are other better hostels around the area or even nearer to town at better prices. Bring USD, the exchange rate quoted for conversion during payment is terrible!

Plussat: Great accommodation... There is all you need in there and Gustavo is great host.

Plussat: For Atacama the place is good value for money, and the manager Gustavo is a really funny and helpful person

Plussat: This lovely little place was a great find! It was comfortable and colourful and just full of friendly faces, Gustavo is simply fabulous, he was warm and funny and couldn’t do enough for us. Made us feel really welcome! Great breakfast facilities and what a lovely little sun trap the terrace was! Sitting there in the afternoon was bliss. The WiFi was great, which was much needed during a nightmare part of our trip that saw us rebooking flights and changing hotels etc! Couldn’t ask for anything more with this place honestly.

Miinukset: Nothing!!

Plussat: The host Gustavo is very friendly and helpful. The room was clean and the breakfast good. The overall atmosphere made us feel very comfortable.

Miinukset: Nothing

Plussat: It's a clean, comfortable hostel with one shower/bathroom to share but due to everyones different schedules it wasn't an issue. Its located 10mins walk from the city with no street noise.

Plussat: Great location and helpful staff. Good size room and bathroom. Drinking water provided at reception. Pool and hot tub were lovely.

Miinukset: The hotel and room felt slightly tired. Within the room there were multiple issues: 1. Bathroom door was damaged 2. Shower screen was damaged 3. Ceiling dirty with multiple squashed bugs (on arrival) 4. Loud fridge 5. Could hear other (optionally co-joined rooms) easily which kept us awake. This was not a reflection on the staff as the room was clean at all points.

Plussat: Very nice and helpful staff. Breakfast was average, but one has to remember that Atacama is a desert city. The hotel is nicely located and rooms are spacious and quiet. Ask for extra heating if you feel cold at night and you will get it.

Plussat: The staff how polite they were

Miinukset: Nothing

Plussat: Very clean, not super central but close enough to the Main Street. Staff very friendly and nice, giving good suggestions and willing to help always. Rooms clean

Miinukset: We went in full winter (end of July) and the bedroom was quite cold during the day with the heaters off (even if we went out for excursions every day so we did not really feel it, it would have been nice to have a warmer room).

Plussat: Very good property design and construction, good location, professional and very friendly staff, nice facilities and good room furniture and amnesties.

Miinukset: We like everything

Plussat: Excellent hotel, calm and peaceful, large rooms

Miinukset: Swimming pool area could be better and renovated, the service at the bar is unfriendly

Plussat: Nice hotel located close to San Pedro town. Watching the moon rise over the volcano whilst sipping a Pisco Sour is a memory that will live with me forever....stunning. Spacious rooms with indoor/outdoor showers was great.

Miinukset: Stayed here for 4 nights, first night in a room with the biggest bed I have ever seen, it was fantastic, unfortunately the air con in our room was broken so we had to change rooms. I was assured the room we were moving into was the same but it wasn’t, the bed was smaller, the bathroom door wouldn’t shut, the hairdryer was older and didn’t work as well and it was a long walk to the pool area, first world problems I know, but stil! Pool area is very tired, swimming pools are a bit shabby, the paint is peeling and the pool temperature is freezing, also not enough sun shades and uncomfortable sun loungers. Oh and charging the equivalent of £25 to wash a couple of shirts and a pair of trousers......outrageous

Plussat: Large room, well appointed. Fridge. Pretty decent breakfast. Nice bar.

Miinukset: Pool area a bit run down. Furniture in room showing wear and tear.

Plussat: Cumbres is an extremely pleasurable hotel. Facilities are super clean, hotel space is very wide and accessible, and all spaces are easy to access and pleasant to stay. The excursions are a must. The hotel was fully prepared to accommodate our needs and did not fail to deliver an awesome Atacama experience. The guides were extremely knowledgeable and caring, giving us every bit of information and suggestion, making every trip extra special. Special thanks to our guides: Ariel, Hans, Manoel, Jennifer, Claudia, Alessandro, and Ernesto - who made this an outstanding experience. The Spa/Pool area is very attractive and a great place to rest. There is plenty of space for both individuals and families. It is where we spent most of the afternoons once we got back from the excursions. The Restaurant counted with a very friendly and helpful staff. Even though we dined quite often in San Pedro’s Pueblo, the food at the hotel is good, and the menu has plenty of options to choose from. The room we stayed in was very spacious and private, giving the hotel an extra touch on its hospitality.

Miinukset: Cumbres is a great hotel in general. Although the excursion staff was on point, the hotel/reception team lacked proper coordination. My partner and I had a tight schedule in Chile, which made it slightly frustrating to know that while one receptionist had our transfer-out scheduled, the other had not. Due to a simple lack of coordination, we found out that our scheduled “exclusive transfer-out - only Cumbres guests” at 03:30am (as arranged via email prior to arrival, in person during middle of trip, and day before exit), turned out to be a “shared transfer-out” at 04:30am, which made us arrive at exactly the time we should be boarding. Furthermore, the pool service fell short of what the rest of the hotel delivered. It was not easy to get the staff’s attention, and, more often than not, food/drinks ordered the day before could be found at the resting area. Worth mentioning that the non-heating pools are super-super cold (15-19 degrees celsius), which is usually not a problem when you consider that the hotel is in the middle of the desert. Yet, when it came to drying, there were days when towels weren’t readily available for the guests (couldn’t take the ones from our room), which made it difficult to fully enjoy the pools.

Plussat: The staff were incredibly helpful and attentive throughout our stay

Plussat: Size of the room, attentiveness of the staff, great breakfast, shuttle to and from the center of town

Plussat: It was out of town so the night sky was amazing The 2 dogs! Pretty quiet other than the neighborhood dogs barking Decent kitchen Fire pit Great breakfast Owner friendly and welcoming Comfy beds Rooms have gas heaters Very relaxing They do a big bag of laundry for 10us Huge woodpile for BBQ/firepit

Miinukset: WiFi is very intermittent, and non existent in the rooms. Doesn't help that staff seem to always be on it, streaming etc Whole place needs a little more love. It's a great place but things are just a little unloved - dirty pool, broken pool decking, weeds, poor sunbeds etc etc. Could be so easily improved. Quite hard to access on foot as you have to cross a river where locals have made a makeshift bridge, bit precarious! Ok if in a car in dry season! Showers went hot and cold Few cobwebs in room and bit dusty

Plussat: The site is beautiful, the rooms are nice, and the pool is a marvel in the desert. Owner was always quickly helpful on WhatsApp. I enjoyed the silence off the noise of central San Pedro. Overall a pleasant stay.

Miinukset: The site is not well maintained. I saw the owner once briefly, and mostly the reception is empty. The staff, if present, is busy with their mobile phones rather than maintaining the site, e.g. basic repairs, cleaning the common area, or fishing insects from the pool. The rooms are dusty, partly due to the desert of course, but also due to lack of awareness. There was trash beneath the mattress, underlining the lack of care. I had to pay in cash, but did not get a receipt.

Plussat: Nice and friendly staff, good service. Beautifully located, quiet and nice set up. Nice common area. Hot showers.

Miinukset: Uncomfortable bed, really hard mattresses. Dark room, not enough light in the evening. It's quite far from town to walk but we had a car so it wasn't really a problem. No one at the reception, but the owner was available via WhatsApp at all times.

Plussat: Simple but consistent and cozy place

Miinukset: In the begging it looks like everything was good, but at least minute the host came to me saying that he made a mistake and there is no room for me, and I, one day before, confirmed with him 4 times in a row, anyway, I got really upset.

Plussat: A beautiful facility, around 15 minutes walk from the center. Alvaro is a great host, always very helpful in everything his guests might need. The place is beautiful.

Plussat: Nice views from the property. I liked that it wasn't right in town but that means you do have to walk back and forth if you didn't come with a car. Kitchen where you could cook if you wanted. Wifi at the main part of the space.

Miinukset: The place was much more rundown than the pictures appeared. The nice pool area in the photos didn't really exist. People were out there but I couldn't imagine why. The place is about 15 years old and few, if any, updates have been made. Towels had holes in them, bedding didn't feel super clean, all of the benches and sofas had dirty/ripped covers.

Plussat: The location is somewhat apart from the town, which makes it quiet and secluded. The owner is relaxed and friendly, and keeps things simple. He speaks English. Breakfast was OK.

Miinukset: The only form of heating is by a gas heater, which takes air from the room and exhausts it back into the room. I didn't want to get CO poisoning, so only used it for about half an hour before bed. Otherwise, during the winter, the room was VERY cold. "Hot" water turns hot after a couple of minutes, and becomes cold again after another 5 minutes. To get to the lodge every day, I had to cross a small river (!). No, there is no bridge, you actually have to drive across a shallow river, although this might not be a problem during the summer - I don't know. No furniture, as I know it - the bed frame, a bench, and a wardrobe are made of the same straw-and-concrete as the whole house. WiFi was very weak, only working from certain points in the room; same with the mobile internet.

Plussat: Very nice place ! Beautiful, quiet, amazing landscape! The bed was super comfortable, everything is nice and the best is the Host : A super nice guy who can help you and he provide us with valuable information on the region! We completely recommend!

Plussat: The host, who is originally from Bolivia, was super nice and her Spanish was very clear, so I was able to understand everything she said, unlike most Chileans who speak lightning fast and have arguably the worst Spanish in Latin America. She was also very attentive, accommodating, and caring. She waited outside with me at 7:30am in the morning for a tour bus to come pick me up, because I wasn't sure if they were going to come. She's very sweet. Probably the best part of this hostel/hostal. Another plus was that the beds were comfortable and the bathroom was clean and they always had hot water. In San Pedro you can't always expect this.

Miinukset: I know it's San Pedro, and installations are lacking, but there was no heat in the hostal. So beware if you come in the winter. At night and in the morning it gets below zero degrees celsius. In bed I was fine because I had enough covers and she even offered extra blankets, but walking around the hostal at night and in the morning is freezing. Another downside is that you can't pay with credit card. ONLY CASH. They also don't give you a VAT refund. I already knew this beforehand. The walls are also paper thin so you hear everything outside in the shared areas and hear people in the other rooms. Luckily I always travel with earplugs so this wasn't a huge deal for me. In the end, San Pedro is really expensive and very rustic. Don't expect the comforts that you have at home in North America, Europe, and NE Asia. All in all, the landscape is amazing and it's worth spending the cash to see all the beauty and wonders that Atacama has to offer.