Puerto La Cruz Hotels - Reviews and Rates

What a surprise we got when we arrived at dead on 630 AM for the 8 Am ferry as it arrived 3 hours late and the place was heaving with every sort of lifeform imaginable. We boarded the ferry with people pushing and shoving to get up the tiny staircase at the base of the ferry. Soon it was a heaving mass of sweating people. We arrived on deck to s...

26/05/08 - L We crossed the border into Venezuela North of Boa Vista near the Venezuelan town of Santa Elena de Uairen, this was the borderpost where we got stamped into country number 2 on our trip. We hadn´t heard many good things said about Venezuela from other travellers as they said it is expensive, dirty and the people are not very friendl...

So, aentli chumi wiederemal dezue oeppis z'schriibe. klar, es sind wiederemal 2 wuche ume, aber waemmer so am reise isch, chunnt mer maengsmal eifach noed zum schriibe, was eigentli schad isch, will mer so vieles wieder vergisst. Nach dem ich 2 Taeg ide Gran Sabana verbracht han, bini mit de Elisa nach Puerto la cruz gfahre. Das isch ade Kuescht...

auf den zweiten blick sind venezuelaner vielleicht sehr entspannt, aber es ist ihnen auch alles egal, sie machen gar nichts, sind nur am bier trinken und interessieren sich fuer gar nichts. so ist mein eindruck aber nicht nur meiner sondern auch der, mehrerer kollegen die ich bisher hier getrofen habe. puerto la cruz ist als kleiner zwischenstop...

Heading off first thing in the morning - hoping to get the taste of Caracas out of our mouths - we hit a hurdle straight away. We'd planned to ride the fantastic new underground Metro out to the interstate bus terminal, but arriving at the station it became pretty clear things weren't running smoothly. From the top of the staircase we could see ...

Queued against the best to enter the Guiness book. Rocked up at 18:20 and stood in a queue of 50 people for our Express 1st class tickets, got to the desk at 23:30 and received tourist class on the tradicional (slow) ferry, which surprisingly only takes 4 hours to get to the island 50km of shore.

We arrived in Caracas in style. For some reason, the guys at LAN upgraded our ticket to business class. Maybe it was our girlish charm, maybe it was because they made us stay in Miami for 5 extra days... either way, we were stoked. We were greeted by a family friend who was a wonderful tourguide and brought us safely to Puerto La Cruz. We stayed...