Cartagena Hostels - Reviews and Rates

19th August
Ok, so I`ve finally hit South America! Flight was pretty interesting, some drunk yank from our flight held up customs for like 20 minutes ranting on about something, jesus I wanted to punch this prick in the head. Anyway, the flight landed at like 12:05am, so we got a taxi and found a hostel and went straight to bed.
Got up in ...

After a nightmare trip that was extended from 6 hours (two flights and one stopover) to 18 hours (three stopovers on two different airlines) due to bad weather we finally arrived in Cartagena - and it was definitely worth the wait! We had planned to do all the right things and arrive in Cartagena around midday but due to the delays we ar...

It was quite a relief to get to Colombia as we had heard of travellers being refused onto flights if they donīt have a return or onward ticket. We had no problem with Aires and all went smoothly which was great for my first internet booking in Spanish! Cartagena is a gorgeous place, at least the old town is - we donīt really venture anywhere els...

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Last night met up with a fellow gay traveller from the States. His name's Rodney, and he's been traveling for over a year. (Lucky guy). (Cartagena sees a lot of tourists, but almost no Americans). Met up for drinks and pupus, and hit a couple of different places. We closed out the evening by visiting the local gay watering hole. It was nearly mi...

Arrived in Cartagena on Thursday night after visiting a mud volcano, ended up looking like Golum from The Lord of The Rings. Had a great time on Thursday night out in town, lots of gringos and good culture here due to Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish. Will be moving off from here soon. Will update shortly.

Next I flew from Pereira to Cartagena on the north coast, a gorgeous historic town I had visited in August 2006. The reason for such a quick return was that I wanted to take a sailboat from there to Panama, rather than fly. I phoned a contact then met up with the German captain Andres. After 3 weeks of cancellations due to strong winds, this wa...

SO I am finally in Cartagena. i hate to build up places too much, because they rarely meet expectations, but nonetheless, this city is amazing. I may very well be the most beautiful place I ahve been to. In the old city, surrounded by walls to keep out pirates (see, itīs awesome already)the streets, with their mulitcolored buildings with colonia...