Santa Cruz Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Hello again,

So I´ve arrived safely to Santa Cruz and at first it was quite surreal. To be back where I lived for almost a year! It felt so similar, yet still so different. The city has changed, it´s growing rapidly and there is much more construction going on than before. But what hasn´t changed, thankfully! is my relationship with my ho...

We have entered Bolivia via what amounts to a dirt track between Corumba (Brazil) and Quijarro (Bolivia). We are travelling to Santa Cruz, the largest city in Bolivia via a night train, infamously called ´the death train´. There are two schools of thought as to how it got the name. One was that it is on account of the bone crunching and spine ja...

After a very long train ride (infamously named the Death Train because they used to kill people who rode on the top of the train without purchasing tickets), we arrived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The train ride was around 20 hrs long. No AC, inventive toilets, adventurous street food, and worst of all, a bunch of very obnoxious Brazilian students. ...

Arrived in Santa Cruz still bouncing at 10am. If you ever travel from corumba to santa cruz, go by po-go stick instead of the Expresso Oriental (death train) as you will probably bounce less times. The difference between Quijjaro and Santa Cruz thankfully is massive. It was a very welcome improvement and not knowing what to expect before you ge...

¡Feliz Nuevo Año! Alex: We decided to escape the mold and hard work of the Animal Sanctuary before New Year and head to Santa Cruz, which is the second biggest city in Bolivia and also the scene of some recent protests which have fortunately now calmed down. We were recommended a nice (4* darling) hotel by some other volunteers at a very reason...

Next a flight to Santa Cruz. No one told them it's supposed to be winter here...it was REALLY hot when we got off the plane onto the tarmac. After a 5-hour layover here, during which we went through customs, claimed our luggage, checked into a different airline for the last legs (yep, legs plural) of our trip since our first airline doesn't fly ...

The bus of pain took us from the Brazilian border to the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. It took 5 hours longer than advertised, mostly because in the middle of the night 2 trucks got stuck in the muddy road. We had to take a back road detour- I thought we were already on a back road, but I was wrong, this was worse! We arrived, bruised and battere...

Managed to get a couple of hours kip on the pane and landed at 6.00am Bolivia time, after an extremely cheap breakfast in the Airport we headed via taxi into Central Santa Cruz and stayed in a the HI Hotel/Hostel for about 10 quid. Did managed to wander around the city during the day and it was pretty ****, big and industrial. May have been love...

Farah and I arrived in Santa Cruz on the Tuesday morning, back in proper tropics. Santa Cruz is fairly close to sea level and this is my first time back in the tropics since I left Singapore. How I missed it! Driving in the taxi towards to center of town everything looked really quiet, post-carnival blues? We managed to find something to eat eve...

After we made the 32 hour journey across the Brazil border into Bolivia we are finally in Santa Cruz. It was 32 hours pretty much non stop on the worse road ever (apparently its one of the main roads). We nearly got stuck quite a few times and you had to hang on for dear life. The road is also very dusty and it comes in through the window, every...