Hotels in Santiago - Prices and Reviews

Ola! Yep Rob and I are now fluent in spanish!  Ola along with moochas gracious, pavfavour and not forgetting the all important banos (toilet!!) and you´d almost think we were locals in Santiago.. .yeah right, but I say that cos this place (Chile) is so comfortable.  Weve come across few english speakers but everyone is friendly and open and just...

I had sent a message to Roberto to let him know that I was running a bit late, before boarding my flight. I had never crossed the Pacific before and it was quite interesting to watch the aircraft passing over the international date line as I headed east from New Zealand. I managed to sleep as best as is possible in an economy seat; oh, how I mis...

Stayed with Carolina, one of the Chilean girls, we met in Rio. We were made feel at home and were treated extremely well. We met the family, enjoyed a barbecue, went to the holiday home at the beach, played pool and drank the best rum in the world. Our stay was fantastic. Touristy things included getting a train up a mountain for a view of the c...

One of the givens of traveling in non-first-world countries is that you get sick. I managed to survive a month of drinking tap water, eating food from anywhere and living in hostels without trouble, while watching most of my friends get sick one by one. Of course it was ridiculous to hope I was out of the danger zone, and on exactly the one-mont...

Today´s Location In an effort to add unnecessary suspense to my travel blog, I ended yesterday´s entry with a cliff-hanger. Were you able to guess? If you are into poetry or have access to google, you may have recognized the verse I posted as being one of the many great ones penned by the most notable Chilean poet - Pablo Neruda. Today, I had th...

Land in Chile, Santigo at 2pm we think on the 24th of June, 11 hours after taking off from Auckland at 6:40pm on the 24th of June. With us crossing the international timeline and totally messing with our sense of time, date and orientation we set about try to sort ourselves out for the 16 hours before our next flight. After an hour in the airpor...

I would rather not write about the next few days, so I will next it as short as possible. I wanted my flight to Santiago, Chile to go as smoothly as possible, but it was anything but that. This isn´t something that I would like to write about and I would like to forget it and leave it behind me. So here is a VERY quick summary of my trip from Co...

A new country, a new continent, a new language, an old friend. The day before I flew to Chile Neil (The Simple Scotsman, see prvious entries) e-mailed me to say he was still in Santiago, stuck there over the easter weekend because all the busses were full with vacationing Chileanos. After hearing Neil´s horror story taxi ride from the airport in...

March 4 - Santiago Remember that we said that we crashed shortly after arriving last night? Well, that was at about 11pm. Gerald awoke this morning at 11am, but just lay in bed reading his book. He thought of waking me, but figured that since we had nothing to do, there was no harm in letting me sleep. Two hours later, I woke up. Yup, Gerald sle...

Hello everyone, Sorry we couldn't think of a more inspiring title for this update but quite honestly there's been little here to inspire us! We didn't actually plan on coming here at all originally, but due to the way our flights worked out when we bought the package we had to stop here. We therefore paid for the flights here and away as we coul...