Cartagena Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

So we traded our hammocks in for loud city nights in this romantic seaside city of Cartagena. The old town in the center is completely surrounded by 15 ft. stone walls, protecting itself from the threat of pirates. There are actually old pirate-looking ships on the bay but no shwashbucklers in sight. Back when the Spanish raided the continent fo...

Very very nice place. Colors and flowers everywhere, beautiful houses, churches, streets... Cusco is surely the capital of colonial architecture in the Andes but Cartagena has a unique mix of Latin + Caribbean vibes. Cusco is an open museum while Cartagena is still writing its own history. The city is so lively with great music, restaurants, sho...

Day 4 now in Cartagena. Got in late first day so did very little, drank in hostel and played cards. Day 2 had a good walk around the central walled city. Checked out some touristy stuff. Had a guide for the San Pedro Claver santuary/monastery/church who seemed to think the most important information i needed for my visit was that he was the slav...

After spending my last weeks in Colombia partying in Santa Marta, then relaxing and diving in Taganga, I parted ways with Pascal & Julien, and returned to Cartagena with Andy and Emma, a couple I had met about 3 weeks previously in Quito. They had the same plan to take a yacht from Cartagena to Panama, so our itineraries fit perfectly.. Back...

We went out last night and grabbed a few drinks. The night life here looks pretty cool. We were pretty wiped so we crashed early and got up late today. Turns out all three of us have been getting between 2-5 hours of sleep every night for the past week. So you can only imagine how good it felt to sleep a good 9 hours. Today´s plan was to basical...

well i have been here for 11 days now and am strugglin to get out of here but its been a good experience i have definatly seen much more than i would have had i stayed a week or less. the first week was even crazier though as we saw fights on the street between 2 colombians using bottles and whatever they could find to batter each other, and eve...

Since my last entry, we have done quite a bit. We stayed in Santa Marta for 2 nights. The second day we took a trip to taganga and made a reservation there. Santa Marta was nice, but it was too busy and chaotic. Taganga was much more the speed we were looking for. It is a quaint fishing villiage just a little north of Santa Marta. We got a reall...

Well, we are now in Cartagena. It is absolutely beautiful. All colonial, and carribean, it´s a very neat mixture. We spent quite a few days in Taganga after Santa Marta. It was this awesome little fishing village right on the sea. We had a cheap room, right on the beach, and we ate fresh seafood for all meals of the day. It was actually pretty a...

The Walled City is our point of entry into Colombia, and South America. It is only a short flight from Panama City, but it seems like a whole different continent.