Hotel Cartagena Plaza

... privacy. The location was perfect so we tried a couple other hotels on the street and ended up at the Hotel Marlin. It was the best shower ever! Cartagena is beautiful! Raymie has already made up his mind that this is the city for us. He is Colombia. We ...

... ;     A quick 20 minute cab ride from the airport, our apartment we rented on the Plaza Santo Domingo was inside the old city area of Cartagena.  (Note:  Similar to the Bogota airport, you should go to the taxi counter and inform ...

... to the harbor.  There was a heavy chain strung between the two forts to prevent surprise attacks. Despite these setbacks, Cartagena flourished and was an important bastion of the Spanish Colonial Empire.  However, that was not to last.  ...

... city walls which looked out over the sea, just in time for a drink at sunset. We then explored the beautiful streets of Cartagena in search of somewhere for dinner...luckily a man found us and took us to a really cute bistro where we had vegetables ...

... relieving to find that the guy did not have any knives or weapons on him. My favourite part of Cartagena however, was spending my nights in the tiny little plaza Trinidad, near my hotel.  Up until about 10 or 11 at night, the place is jam packed ...

Cartagena is a gorgeous vacation spot.  Perfect for boating to Islas del Rosario, snorkeling, exploring the maze of cobblestone streets and enjoying nightly dancing/music in the old town's plazas.  Bogota is beautiful as well ...

... escusa para bajarse de la canoa un momento...para luego volver a montarla. Finalmente, decidimos recorrer por última vez Cartagena, para volver a ver sus espectaculares balcones y callecitas...no nos aburríamos de la ciudad amurallada...fue un placer ...

... out, she said, "no way" - I was relieved. She is proving to be a really cool girl. We took a shuttle to Cartagena, and checked into the La Playa hotel in Boca Grande, a cab-ride away from the old city. It was already about 6pm, so we got something to ...

... attitude. And it didn’t. But we can now see how it might have… We were sat at a table in an elegant plaza in Cartagena, minding our own beeswax, supping a cold beer in the mauve tones of twilight. I’d just ordered a parrilla which would ...

Cartagena se encargó de hacer buen nombre nuevamente. Noche de chill en la plaza de Santo Domingo, conociendo al grupo de Bucaramanga, quienes me sugirieron el sitio para llegar en Palomino, la ciudad amurallada me permitió tejer los planes hacia la ...

... one day!      Cartagena is simply idyllic - the perfect romantic cinematic destination! As a result, Cartagena's boutique hotels are very popular as destination wedding venues - and Cartagenian wedding planners' a plenty! ...

... : 1hr 5mn)                   Transport to Cartagena hotel via taxi - initially we went through a rough-looking area that reminded you of Mexico or Beirut after a ...

... an evening with too much rum and cigars, I jumped on the minibus to get into Santa Marta, hoping to find a bus towards Cartagena. Bang, bang, smack, smack and 25 minutes after I was heading in the right direction. Perfect. The bus took over 5hrs though, ...

... to the streets on bikes, skateboards, rollerblades, foot, ect. - a concept unheard of in Central America), and the preservation of Cartagena is incredible.  But the real charm of Colombia has been the people, as they have been the nicest out of any ...

... the bags, locked up the room and headed in to the walled city to take a look around and get some food. Firstly, Cartagena really is a beautiful city and it fully warrants its’ UNESCO World Heritage Site status.  Within the walled city (Old ...

... we got thrown 20 cm up in the air (literally!). Luckily it wasn't 30cm, because then we would have hit the roof. We arrived in Cartagena a bit after eight o’clock, too late to take a bus. So we had to try to find a willing taxi driver – ...

... sounding too much like a travel agent.  I'm certain that in ten years if Colombia continues to improve it's security Cartagena will become flooded with tourists and become as expensive as any international city.  I'm grateful we were able to ...

... genius Colombian life. We sat at La Pavia down the street for pizza takeout as we talked with the Austrian owner about living in Cartagena. For him living there for three years, he still didn't know the city like we did. The pizza was good but small and ...

... room with paint peeling of the walls and seatless toilet is a small price to pay($5?) for the beautiful spacious plaza on which the hotel is centered. Swinging in a hammock under the shade of palm trees listening to the steamy sounds of ...