Guatemala City Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today started very early. Stephanie, Brian, and I were up at 3:30am to be at the airport in Raleigh in time for our 7am flight. It was very good of Brian to drive us there. We had no traffic problems and no problems checking in or with security and were at the gate at 6:00am. We were surprised at how many people were going through security. We m...

After Mexico, the logical way (apart from when I was in Chetumal) was Guatemala. Local agencies in San Cristobal offer shuttle service direct to Antigua orf Panajachel, but it was not typical enough for me so I chose the independent way. The bus from San Cristobal to the border town of Cuauhtemoc was a first class four-hour ride, the ones I got ...

It was a perfect spot for the night, but this morning we have to go into Guatemala City, supposedly a nightmare to drive in. It took a reasonably pleasant three hours to get to the outskirts and then we basically just had to stay on the ring road until we got to the other side of town. That worked OK but then we needed to get onto a cross road, ...

All is quiet in our room. Sweet Bella is sleeping and Tina is out tracking down chocolate cereal. Yes, they put chocolate cereal in Bella's formula. Of course we didn't take into account that the pharmacy would be closed on a Sunday. So Tina is trekking down to the grocery store which is a few blocks away. I protested, wanting her to take a cab ...

We had an uneventful travel day. We arrived in Guatemala City about 1:30pm. Guatemala is in Central time. The team met and spent the afternoon getting aquatinted. We are staying tonight at Dos Lunas Guesthouse, which is like a Bed and Breakfast house in the US. I can tell I am going to have a lot of trouble typing on the Latin American keyboard....

Since it was founded in 1676, the Universidad de San Carlos has been the only public college in Guatemala. Because it enjoys constitutional autonomy under Guatemalan law, it has long been a haven for dissent in a country dominated by extreme right-wing politics, resulting in brutal repression. In 1978 the military publicly denounced the universi...

Well, have been here three weeks now, and getting into the way of life. My first few days in Guatemala City, the big smoke (it really is, exhaust fumes suffocating) were uneventful, and I made it to Antigua (old capital city - pretty, colourful, colonian) to start Spanish school. The school was a lovely old villa, classes one to one at little de...