The Point Cusco
Meson de la Estrella 172 Cusco, --, Peru
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TravelPod Member ReviewsThe Point Cusco
“A great hostel”
thewellstrip 6 contributions
United Kingdom
Jul 9, 2011
Hot water, cool beer garden, tv room, its all good. Rooms get a bit cold though.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HostelThe Point Cusco
The back road to Machu Picchu
I was expecting the worst when coming to Cuzco and that is probably what made it so enjoyable. Once the capital of the Inca empire, today, with its access to Machu Picchu, Cuzco is South America's gringo capital. Such a high concentration of tourists usually brings out the worst in a city, but in Cuzco the side effects remain within limits - with …
The One Where We Followed The Sacred Valley
Servus!!!
In Peru angekommen waren wir alle etwas ueberascht, da der Unterschied zu Bolivien doch ziemlich gross ist. Die Strassen sind gut gebaut, man sieht schoenere Plaetze unbd den Leuten scheint es besser zu gehen.
In Cuzco haben wir erstmals ins Point Hostel eingecheckt und uns dann um unsere Machu Picchu Reise gekuemmert. …
Manic first night
We got the bus on Sunday from Urabamba after our colectivo escapade from Ollantaytambo. This was fairly incident-free, aside from the driver, as is often the case, allowing aboard more passengers than seats and thus for the duration of the trip I was treated to the unnecessarily proximate presence of a nine year old boy sporting the ludicrous combo …
"I feel ILLLL!"
Woke up at 1.30pm and rather predictably felt hideous. I was still drunk, and even the hostel's beautiful showers (hot and high pressure, amazing after Chaska Wasi's hovel-standard plumbing ineptitude) failed to revive me. We went for lunch at a bar-restaurant called Nomade around 3.30pm and, though I was starving, I felt horrendous and could only …
Clinic trip and random wandering
The previous day I suspected I had developed some kind of UTI to add to my previous doxycycline-induced ailments (good times) so in the morning me and Claire went hunting for a clinic that had a big poster advertising its services in the main hall of the hostel – having already seen an Ecuadorian medical professional, I evidently though it …



