Vina del Mar Hotels - Reviews and Rates

HOLA! Hope everyone's doing well. This week has sure gone by fast! On Monday (June 22), I went to my classes, and afterwards we had a presentation about the artes de las calles (a.k.a - grafitti). It was very interesting. We learned about the some of the history of the grafitti in Valparaiso and several of the different styles that can be found ...

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We have left behind the glorious countryside and come to the coast to the west of Santiago. This area is popular with Chileans and Argentinians as a holiday destination. Not at all as we had imagined. After the peace of the agricultural areas we are now in built-up towns. The coastline has miles and miles of high rises built into the steep hills...

ok, so mom is awesome. since we haven´t been posting pictures you can go to the bottom of any entry there are links to other people´s pictures of the places we´ve been. they may not be the same touristy places, but the ones i saw for the valpo entry are pretty much the same. thanks for pointing that out mom! so today was a lot of fun. we slept l...

--Friday, Saturday, Sunday-- We went to the beach this weekend, visiting the sister cities of Valparaiso and Vina del Mar. Valparaiso is the more sophisticated sister, more industrial with much history and some beautiful old buildings, while Vina del Mar is the later-blooming sister, settled by rich Chilean families wanting resort homes on the b...

An apology about my complete lack of upkeep in this blog and communication in general is due. Sorry. I don´t really have an excuse. I haven´t been terribly busy, aside from teaching afro-brasilian dance to 3 year olds, translating love letters, surviving earthquakes and learning to cook, so I guess my only excuse is that I´ve just been a little ...

I was still feeling kind of sick last night, but I woke up this morning feeling just about ready to tackle anything. Tom and I decided to check out Viña del Mar. Its a fairly large city on the coast and is about 1.5hrs drive from Santiago (Santiago is actually inland, I always used to think it was on the coast). Viña is actually the weekend and ...

Now that the limited space from Holy Week is over, I want to move to a place where I don't have to share one bathroom with a dozen people. I also want to explore Vina del Mar, a major beach resort 20 minutes from Valparaiso. So, I am off for the new town. I opt for a German Hotel which has commanding views of the town. Neither the city nor the b...

Firstly, Dad there is a photo on here just for you, I am sure you will know which one it is! We had decided to take a day bus over to Chile, so we could see the scenery as we went through the Andes. Which was a good job because there are only day buses! Although our 9.30 bus was delayed until 11. Once we arrived we found a really cute little ´ho...

We got back to Buenos Aires early in the morning and forgot that it is semana santa (Easter week). So we had to leave right away or be stuck there for a week..... so we hopped on another bus for 20 hours! oh yes! Long bus ride short, we are back in Viña and I moved apartments. Now I can see the playa from my window however there is no couch, sto...