Lake Atitlan Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We went to the southern dock in San Pedro to get a boat to Santiago. For about 10 quetazales is possible to buy a two-way ticket, and you'll be saving a couple of quetzales. The trip takes about 30 minutes and it surrounds the shores of Volcan San Pedro. Once we got to Santiago we were able to see the other side of the volcano, as well we the To...

This was just a one night stop but I am very pleased we chose to visit this lovely little village. Apart from a few beers and a little street food we didn´t really do much apart from get an early night. After arriving on the boat I was tired and wanted to wake up fresh the next morning to catch the weekly market. I left everyone else in bed, inc...

No matter how "fantastic" or "impossibly cute" Lonely Planet says Atitlan is, the time you can spend here is very limited. The town of Panajachel is just one long handicraft market street. So basically there is buying or sitting at the lake side to eat and drink. The lake itself is quite picturesque but far from the "most beautiful lake in the W...

We'd researched Lago Atitlan a bit. It's a large and ancient volcanic lake, reputed to be more than 300m deep, though no one seems to know for sure. Each little community around the lake has its own character. Panajachel is for short-term tourists, San Pedro La Laguna is for the party-hearty crowd as well as longer-term tourists, and San Marcos ...

Yesterday the new president of Guatamala rose to his new position, which was big news here, but even bigger, it seems, is today... the new Mayor of Santiago takes his position. Though no one seems to think he's that great, they sure seem to be putting a lot of energy and pagentry into celebrating. Starting last night the whole square started bei...

When you descend towards Lago Atitlan from the Highlands it really does take your breath away! It is a crater lake formed by the collapse of 2 volcanoes whose eruptions were so huge that debris was scattered as far away as Florida and Panama! Later on other 3 smaller volcanoes sprung up around this lake. We headed for the hippie San Pedro and ch...

I was all for the 7am local bus to Panajachel but Erin wouldn't get up, so we did things the relaxing way and took advantage of the hotel's breakfast.  We signed up for a tourist shuttle later in the day.  The 12:30 bus ended up turning into a 2:00 bus, but we were finally off and climbing through the lush highlands.  We were dropped off on Main...

My last full day in Guatemala...although it was a bit rushed, I decided that I couldn't be this close to Lago de Atitlan without going to see it. So I caught a bus with a couple of friends early this morning for the bumpy, windy, two and a half hour ride to Panajachel, one of the biggest towns on the lake shore. About half an hour before arrivin...

We're in the midst of our first full day in Santiago Atitlán. Our accomodations proved adequate, with the exception of some wily spiders that Sheila didn't much like. We've been wandering the town somewhat aimlessly this morning. We did stop by the home of Maximón, the evil saint, guided by a small boy (one of dozens offering) who extracted an e...

On Monday, after our encounter with flowing lava at Vocan Pacya, Andy and I jumped town on a chicken bus headed for the Lake Atitlan region, northwest of Antigua. This was our first chicken bus experience and it went pretty well. We only missed one connection and had to backtrack a bit, but in general, the people were very nice and helped us alo...