Castro Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Well it continues to be wet and windy down in the south of Chile`s lake district. However the advantage of that is mulled wine but the open fire. All the hostels I have bene in around here haven open fires and a nice cosy feal to the place.

Hopefully tomorrow I`ll get to go into the national park and do a little hiking around (then back t...

That's not a typo. Chiloé is a big island off the southwest coast of Chilé. In a startling number of ways, it looks and feels like Wilson's Promontory. Uninhabited sand dunes, roaring ocean, wind, birds, great camping - yep. But head a few hundred metres inland, and the vegetation is totally alien. There's a vaguely ferny banana-tree-like plant ...

Imagine that shortly after the Boston tea party, some King George loyalists decided to hole up on Manhattan, cut off all ties with the rest of the nascent nation, and just get real weird for awhile. That´s pretty much what happened here on Chiloé, the last stronghold of the Spanish crown here in Chile until 1844. This isolation wasn´t voluntary,...

Not sure if they knew I was coming today but as I arrived in Castro, the capital of Isla Grande de Chiloe, everything appeared to be shut! er and it was.. It was 11 am and ************e about and most of the shops were shut, including the tourist information office, which was handy. Great, up at the crack of dawn for a supposed 3 hr bus ride whi...

We spent a lot of time in Castro, the biggest city in Chiloe - 5 nights. I really enjoyed our hostel here... much like Puerto Varas, it was a bustling place with many people all the time. We had breakfast included in many of the hostels. The breakfasts (?) was all the same: fresh bread, butter, jam, cheese, ham, tea, and nescafé instant coffee (...

After the exhilaration of Torres del Paine, the last few days have been relatively tranquil. In fact, incredibly tranquil in that most of what I have been doing is eating, napping, chatting and reading. I took a three-day ferry ride from Puerto Natales (the front door of Torres del Paine) up to Puerto Montt,which is sort of considered the northe...

The journey from Punta Aranas to Chiloe (chill-oh-ay) Island was pretty straightforward.... no side of the road drop offs this time. Saw lots of penguins and sea lions on the ferry crossing. When we arrived in Castro (a town in the center of the island) we had no map and little functioning sense of direction. Good thing it is easy to find the pl...

si viaggia sempre piu' verso sud... arriviamo su quest'isola dopo aver dormito da una vecchina a Puerto Montt. La vecchina merita due righe... siamo arrivati la sera prima alla stazione dei pullman verso le dieci di sera, come sempre veniamo assaliti da offerte di ospitalita' che in realta' vengono anche tenute in considerazione perche' ti perme...

So, after our inauspicious start waking the hostel to get to the bus station, we arrived in Castro on Chiloe at about 3pm, the bus trip entailing a half hour ferry ride over to the achipeligo (anyone know the difference between an archipeligo and an island? Hmm, sounds like a good joke in there somewhere.....). Castro was a lovely fishing town, ...

SO, I only have a minute to write, but I am in Chiloe...the big island off of Chile, with only kelly now (no more sarah and eleni). We are beginning a two week adventure doing missionary work in las desertores (not sure if I spelled that write) a series of six islands outside of this island. We just met up with Benjamin, and another friend of hi...