Country Info
- San Salvador
- Capital
- El Salvador Colon (SVC)
- Currency
- 6,237,662
- Population
- SV
- Country Code
San Salvador Slideshow
Top Hotels in San Salvador
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InterContinental Hotels Real San Salvador
132 reviews -
Sheraton Presidente San Salvador
84 reviews -
Hilton Princess San Salvador
69 reviews
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Quality Hotel Real Aeropuerto El Salvador San Salvador
39 reviews
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Crowne Plaza Hotel San Salvador
65 reviews -
Courtyard by Marriott San Salvador
47 reviews
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Holiday Inn San Salvador
27 reviews
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Villa Serena Escalon San Salvador
3 reviews
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Comfort Inn San Salvador
15 reviews
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Villa Serena San Benito San Salvador
6 reviews
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Locanda Trattoria Montesei San Salvador
1 review -
Novo Apart-Hotel San Salvador
20 reviews
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Hotel Mirador Plaza San Salvador
8 reviews
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Hotel Escalon Plaza San Salvador
3 reviews
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Hotel Santander San Salvador
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Clarion Suites Las Palmas San Salvador
11 reviews
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Hotel Bellerive San Salvador
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Alicante Hotel San Salvador
8 reviews
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Siesta Hotel and Casino San Salvador
7 reviews
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Hotel Terraza San Salvador
24 reviews
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Hostal la Portada Bed and Breakfast San Salvador
2 reviews
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Hotel Alameda San Salvador
7 reviews
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Hotel La Posada del Rey Primero San Salvador
9 reviews
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Hotel Happy House San Salvador
3 reviews
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Hotel Casa del Sauce San Salvador
4 reviews
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Hotel Mediterraneo Plaza San Salvador
6 reviews
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Hotel Puerto Bus San Salvador
7 reviews -
Hotel Via Luz San Salvador
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Hotel Olinda San Salvador
1 review
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Apart Hotel Maria Jose San Salvador
12 reviews
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Hotel Casa Austria San Salvador
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Mariscal Hotel & Suites San Salvador
8 reviews
San Salvador
Travel Blogs from San Salvador, El Salvador
Impossible Passes, No Gringos and Popusas!
This is a top pick! ... 11th century. In 1525, Pedro de Alvarado, a lieutenant of Cortés of Spain, conquered El Salvador. El Salvador, with the other countries of Central America, declared its independence from Spain on 15th September 1821, and was part of a federation of ...
The Money
This is a top pick! ... everything and we just had to go along with it and r.e.l.a.x. On Friday night we were joined by a couple he knows from San Salvador, both young hotshot economists with plenty to talk about and plenty of questions for us about the UK, the US, what we ...
San Salvador Mall Tour 2006
This is a top pick! ... . Indeed, our hotel was great and cheap and filled with Peace Corps volunteers (cheap, good hotels are a rarity in San Salvador, and El Salvador´s tourism industry in general isn´t very developed). The hotel was only 2 blocks from the mall-world ...
It must be something in the water here......
This is a top pick! I arrived in San Miguel around noon, and within two minutes I had several guys seriously hitting on me. They kept asking about my boyfriend back home, and if he had as good a job as them etc. It was pretty funny....and yet also scary. I managed to ditch ...
Guns, Guns, everywhere but not a shot fired
This is a top pick! I am in San Salvador, the ultra modern capital city and the nightlife here is, borrowing an expression from one of my British friends, "proper amazing". They use the US dollar so for the first time in over two months, I am using good ole American ...
Is our bus driver selling coke??!?
This is a top pick! ... was fine...no strange fees (actually, no fees at all) and they didn't even stamp my passport when I came into the country. San Salvador is.....crazy. I was super super super scared when I first got here because it seems to be a hugely high crime ...
Quick stop in the mountains
This is a top pick! The morning of the 29th we left the beach and 5 buses later we were in the mountains in a quaint little mountain town called Alegria. A long day on buses which means of course little food, but we are used to that by now. Settled into our smallest ...
I Need A Break!!
This is a top pick! ... theatre to a group of perplexed locals. No wonder they don't like us much. I can't say I really liked the centre of San Salvador. No welcoming parklands like in the other towns we've visited recently and everyone was staring at us so we moved on. I ...
think Crater Lake, but bigger
This is a top pick! ... take a dip in the cool clear waters of the crater lake. Since it was the weekend, many "capitalinos" (second-home owners from San Salvador) were partying at the pier restaurant next door. We wandered over and had a beer, played cards, and watched ...
Luxury Buses - The Return Journey
This is a top pick! ... spending another night in their country, but I had no choice. 3 hours later at 9pm we finally pulled into the bus depot in San Salvador. 4 countries down, 1 to go but that'd have to wait till the morning. For now I was glad for the basic hotel room ...
Still here in the expensive city
This is a top pick! ... me an excuse to go to real businesses like Subway and get lunch to break my 10's and 20's. The biggest danger I have observed in San Salvador is ... man hole covers ... or the lack of them. You need to watch where you're walking so you don't mysteriously ...
Going home....
This is a top pick! Yesterday I made a rather interesting decision. I booked a flight home for tomorrow! I know, most of you reading this blog will think that that came right out of nowhere! However, I´ve been pretty homesick since I left, so I decided to catch a flight ...
Entering El Salvador
This is a top pick! ... of the hilly bits and still keep on going, we arrived at "la Libertad" which is south west of San Salvador" is like the "Skegness" of El Salvador. Only with really good surf waves and black boulders for a beach!!! Everybody and their dog was here with ...
passport withheld
This is a top pick! ... obviously not interested in your horn and whistles, he didnt manage to change anyones mind to suddenly want to go to San Salvador. As we reached a great storm arrived pinning all the passengers under a small overhang of corregated iron that only managed ...
A little splurge after a nightmare bus ride
This is a top pick! ... on our way. At 2am we found ourselves in a rather sketchy part of town (which at this time of night is most of San Salvador). We were cresting a hill when we noticed a police officer in full swat gear, barring the helmet, with both hands on his ...
Yet another crazy capital!
... at 7am and get my ass out of bed after that. I had a great sleep but still feel pretty dodgy. I want to explore San Salvador city centre before grabbing a bus to Santa Ana from where I will spend my birthday. The guide book is pretty frank about ...
Moving Fast
This is a top pick! ... abroad that sends money home. These annual remittances equal about 16% of GDP. Additionally, there is substantial foreign investment in San Salvador. The city has an industrious feel and momentum seems to be on their side. I caught a few innings of ...
The ocean kicks my ass
This is a top pick! ... compared to Gautama la. The moment we crossed the border you could tell that everything was just a bit nicer. Arriving in San Salvador we caught a school bus down south to the beaches. We ended up staying in a little guest house that was ...
Famous for Guns, gangs and ex-guerillas
... and just chilled in our room, reading and watching some TV... (well, had it on in the background...!) I actually felt safer in San Salvador than I did in Managua last night... We had quite an early night, although the guy next to us was speaking really ...
San Miguel El Salvadore
... dont speak Spanish or something or we were just way way lost. We decided to stop trying to find a decent place to camp in El Salvador - its just too easy to get really lost and end up on sandy roads and so we got back on the Pan American Highway ...
Quién son los Héroes?
... as we all know, you can't believe everything you read (especially in LP... surely it must be higher than fifth?)! Incidentally San Salvador features in LP's poll too, but way down in sixth place. I've survived many a day and night loitering ...
Is San Salvador the 51st state?
... from my peace corps group, Luke and Kathryn. We rode the Tica bus for 12 hours and passed through Honduras and arrived in San Salvador. . . the city of the super malls!! San Salvador has no less then 5 mall complexes, each of them huge!! They have ...
El Savador
... near the coast as a result of the storm so not surfing turned out to be a good option. We spent one more night back in San Salvador before heading out to Nicargua, visiting some of the more cultural sights like the cathedral, museums and the ...
Illegal Alien
... beautiful, and the bucolic village we stayed in was nestled next to a creek that was running down the hill into El Salvador. Two interesting experiences that I had involved unofficial, international border crossings. The first involved a man who had ...
The last Alux Nahual concert!
... Salvador that weekend - of course I agreed! We left on Thursday 6th of July and drove the 3 or so hours to San Salvador, the capital city. Border crossing was once again interesting for me - photocopies were made of my passport etc etc but ...
Explosions aplenty for Christmas in El Salvador
I left San Jose, Costa Rica at around 3am......and after going through Nicaragua and Honduras, I eventually arrived at San Salvador around 9pm. Thats definately a record for me: 4 countries in 1 day! Another record was the money I had to hand ...
The "Route of the Maya" Begins
... only in El Salvador for one day so were unable to get any real impression about the country for a simple city tour of San Salvador. However, we also visited the Joya de Ceren which is both an archaeological site as well as a UNESCO World Heritage ...
Searching for Ines and the best pupusa
... find that we experience more in smaller towns. There are very few places of real interest to us in El Salvador anyway...maybe Santa Anna and Suchitoto. San Salvador actually seems to be quite cosmopolitan and we would have liked to stay longer. For ...