Hotels in Santiago - Prices and Reviews

¡Hola chicos! The time is really flying by over here. I can´t believe I only have 2 more days of school left! I need many many more days to become proficient in Spanish, or "castellano" as it´s called here in Chile. But I have the basics and just need to practice. My class has grown again, there are now 5 of us which had made the lessons a littl...

Bienvenidos to my first blog in Chile! I have been here a week and I don't know where to begin. Well, it's been hard accessing the Internet so I apologize for not writing sooner! Where to begin...my flight left Tuesday, but the adventure did not begin there. Monday night I was frantically packing while Chris and Ellaine helped me with space savi...

Well - here we are in Chile, South America. The flight was a good one, slighty delayed out of Auckland due to storms over the Southern Oceans. The captain decided to change route, which happenned to be shorter route and we´d get to Santiago slighty ahead of schedule. The children travelled well - all things considered. Nissa or I did not get muc...

Well done to the 99% of you who correctly identified the last entry was in fact complete gibberish! Bonus points to Tom Elliot for correctly identifying it as an extract from a Jamie Oliver cookbook. To the two people who sent me messages congratulatiing me on learning Spanish so quickly; you have learnt a valuable lesson. Do not believe everyth...

One last breakfast and Theresa dropped us at the airport. Ina´s friend from the band came to see us off and gave us two of their CDs. The flight to Santiago was good, and we had those private video on demand thingys again! I like Lan Chile!! We landed about an hour late and there was confusion as some people on the flight are coming direct from ...

May 16th to 20th, 2007 Day 1 Hola Gente (Hello People), Well the time to travel has finally arrived, hooray! First of all I would like to say thanks to all those people that have made my last few months in Australia so enjoyable. But particular thanks go to my Sherwood family (Dave and Lisa) who took me in when I got evicted from the 'Grove, muc...

Our seven hour bus journey from Mendoza to Santiago quickly turned into a nine hour pain in the ass due to the awkward customs situation at the Argentina - Chile border. This was the third time we´d come across one way or the other and each time have had to deal with interminable delays. It does make you realise that you´re well settled in to th...

We'd heard that Santiago is not that great a place, and just really an entry and exit point. However, that's not really what we experienced. Our final few days in South America were spent enjoying what the capital of Chile had to offer. There are numerous parks around the city, where the views over the city and into the Andes make them a pretty ...

Dear Paul, We would like to thank you for finding us at the airport today. Obviously we looked a little lost and you took it upon yourself to offer assistance in finding a place to stay and transport to the hostel. Although we initially refused your repeated offer of help, as we were happy to look in our guide book for a hostel, you really prove...

Hola! After 4 months in Australia and New Zealand I have arrived in South America to begin the final third of my 12 months away. First of all, I must apologise for the lack of entries on this log over the past few months. As I´ve said before it is partly due to being lazy and internet costs. The experience of being in familiar countries such as ...