Santiago Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Sunday 21 June 2009

I've finally arrived in the last continent on earth that remained for me to visit - well excluding the big icy Antartica which quite frankly isn´t really appealing to me all that much. If I manage to update this blog - short an entry as it will be given the lack of anything I´ve done since last time - it will be a mino...

After a bit of a sleep in this morning I caught the metro to meet Arturo (guide from yesterday, I finally found out his name!) and the Canadian girl from the glacier non-event yesterday. We were heading to some markets south of central Santiago. Arturo told us not to bring bags because the area is notorious for pickpockets. He also told us we wo...

A few time on the trip we had a few low points where everything had just become a little too overwhelming, Santiago however will go down as our lowest point in the entire trip. It might have been a culmination of the long bus trips over the last few weeks, the constant moving every few days, the fact that we were still struggling with our Spanis...

Hola! So far so good. We thought we new a little spanish until the Chileans started talking. How do you say SLOW DOWN. We will get the hang of it as we are eager to try. It is important to note the dialect, it is differant. We are staying for a couple days because we know where to watch the Super Bowl. Priorities, I know. Until next time, Adios....

Ok, I made it to Santiago late last nite, and I mean late. My flight landed in Santiago at 12:30 a.m. by the time I got to the hotel it was an hour later. Now since I am new at this blog thing and had almost no internet the day before I did not say anything from Mexico City, and what I needed to say was that it was great. I got into Mexico by ar...

A short (18-hour) bus journey brought us to the town of Mendoza and the foothills of the Andes. We swapped for a less comfortable bus for a 5hr journey to cross over the Andes. What a trip! Climbing to a height of 4,000 metres with Mt.Aconcagua poking into the clouds, just another 3,000 snowy metres higher. Standing outside at the border was qui...

ANNA: aww..it´s always difficult to leave a place, but it´s time to move on. we leave for la paz, bolivia at 7am tomorrow and will have to get accustomed to being 3000 meters above sea level. we´re not supposed to eat a lot, drink alcohol, or do anything excessive for the first day. until then.... DEREK: Well, Chile has been great: people, sight...

I awoke just before midday on Saturday, my parents were supposed to be coming to my godfather's house for a family BBQ. My Dad was first to arrive, followed by my mother and sister. By this time we were quite hungry (Mum took her time). There were meats and salads as far as the eye could see. One salad that caught my eye was a celery salad with ...

Hola!!! First impressions of Santiago? Well, lets just say first impressions don't last, at least not in this part of the world. We thought it was noisy, smelly and thick with smog (which it is), but after a couple of days it grows on you and the bad things don't really matter any more. After an 11 hour flight from NZ we were happy to fall into ...

Hi Guys, We're quickly reaching the end of our travels...! We left NZ on 18th April at 17.20 to arrive in Santiago on the same day at midday! Some serious Groundhog Day! And serious jetlag! Our bodies and minds were all over the place! We settled into the hostel, nice staff and FREE internet! Also the hardest pool table ever, with pockets so sma...