Cheap decent hotel in Santiago

[DavidZ]

LOL...Hotel Rotunda in Los Jardines? um....no...it is nowhere near there nor the Metro station...would you please give it up already with this place and $14 hotel rooms?? Sheesh!!

 

[Frank the Tank]

HI The place I am mentioning is LA Rotanda that is the cheapest in all of Santiago well I heard too even cheaper digs near Parque Duarte in centro but they say that is unsafe,,Ok then all I know is Rotanda is in the jardines district, If no one can post the adress e mail or if thwey have a website then at least how do you get there fvrom the metro bus station? Can you walk from there or do you need to take a short cab ride? People have posted this before on Rotanda but what directions is it coming from The Metro bus? Can someone explain it more or less? I Need as much info on this as possible,,,OK then I wait here for responses on this...

Why do you keep pushing this hotel. It's not like you have been there. According to another post you have never been to DR at all. What gives?

 

[VJS]

Which of the Santiago hotels listed have decent in-room Internet access - wifi or wired?

 

[Hillbilly]

Jardines has wifi.
Colonial has internet but not in the rooms.

HB

 

[DavidZ]

Hotel Century Plaza has wired internet in the rooms.

 

[FritoBandito]

All this thread and nobody has mentioned Hotel Colonial! The best, cheapest, of the inexpensive hotels in Santiago. Victor and Lazaro run a good clean place.
Breakfast included in the new section for 1350 a night...and the breakfast is good and plentiful. They have a gated parking lot.

What's not to like??

HB

Hi,

In my 6 trips to the DR, I've stayed in either Cabarete or Sosua for my trips, with the exception of staying in Samana City for 3 days.

I'd like to investigate Santiago more, I was there only once on a Mel tour. We stopped at a ciagar factory and the monument.

Is this Hotel Colonial located in an area where most foreign tourists can be found???

And how far is it to get there from the bus station??? (I'd be taking a bus from Sosua).

Thanks,
F.B.

 

[RacerX]

Hi,

In my 6 trips to the DR, I've stayed in either Cabarete or Sosua for my trips, with the exception of staying in Samana City for 3 days.

I'd like to investigate Santiago more, I was there only once on a Mel tour. We stopped at a ciagar factory and the monument.

Is this Hotel Colonial located in an area where most foreign tourists can be found???

And how far is it to get there from the bus station??? (I'd be taking a bus from Sosua).

Thanks,
F.B.

What bus? Javilla Tours has a stand across the street from Hotel Colonial. Metra and Caribe arent close but depending on how much luggage you have and your desire you can walk to the hotel in 25 minutes.

Most foreign tourists dont find themselves in Santiago. Its not a touristy town. Not much happening past the Monument on a Friday night. But you will be on Calle Sol which is the Cental Business District. And Colonial is by the Cultural Museum and Parque Duarte. The hotel is on Cucurillo Street towards the corner of Calle Sol and in close proximity to Las Carreras Avenue. I ve never been there but it looks seedy to me, your experience may vary. And unlike Cabarete y Sosua, your Spanish will have to be good because apart from 1 or 2 dudes almost no one there is literate in english, even those you pass coming out of the english language academies in that area.

 

[LaTeacher]

I live near Hotel La Rotonda - and even if there are some nicer "urbanizaciones" near La Rotonda (that's in the BARRIO Libertad area of the city... the name says it all) it's not somewhere that could be considered super safe. I've never stayed there - but... no, I wouldn't stay there (and I live in the area, imagine people who DON'T live in the area). Most of the windows don't even have bars on them on the first floor.

 

[FritoBandito]

What bus? Javilla Tours has a stand across the street from Hotel Colonial. Metra and Caribe arent close but depending on how much luggage you have and your desire you can walk to the hotel in 25 minutes.

Most foreign tourists dont find themselves in Santiago. Its not a touristy town. Not much happening past the Monument on a Friday night. But you will be on Calle Sol which is the Cental Business District. And Colonial is by the Cultural Museum and Parque Duarte. The hotel is on Cucurillo Street towards the corner of Calle Sol and in close proximity to Las Carreras Avenue. I ve never been there but it looks seedy to me, your experience may vary. And unlike Cabarete y Sosua, your Spanish will have to be good because apart from 1 or 2 dudes almost no one there is literate in english, even those you pass coming out of the english language academies in that area.

So could I catch the Javilla bus in Puerto Plata, at the tour office, and be dropped of in front of the Colonial Hotel in Santiago???

How much do you estimate it would cost???

Thanks!

 

[RacerX]

So could I catch the Javilla bus in Puerto Plata, at the tour office, and be dropped of in front of the Colonial Hotel in Santiago???

How much do you estimate it would cost???

Thanks!

Bus is 100 pesos one way and it doesnt stop IN FRONT of Hotel Colonial. It stops on Calle Sol and Cucurillo across the street from Colonial.

 

[pelaut]

Clean, modern, cheap. El Colonial near 30 Marzo on Cucorullo. Steps from busses and carritos. VERY downtown. Owned by nice New York Dominican family.

 

[rsg]

Clean, modern, cheap. El Colonial near 30 Marzo on Cucorullo. Steps from busses and carritos. VERY downtown. Owned by nice New York Dominican family.

The son Lazerous runs the place..They have three hotels side by side...Its worth the little extra money to stay in the newer building....I think it's about $30..

 

[Viajero]

Any recent reviews on this places?