Hotel Mariel Lima

... on the way. We finally caught a public bus to Lima at midday and arrived at 4pm, taking a transfer to the hotel and checked in by 4.30pm. Lima is known as the City of Kings and is the Capital city of Peru, founded by Francisco Pizarro on the day of the ...

... the owners let them roam the streets all day, and then they just come back home for food at dinner time.  We arrived at the Mariel Hotel and put our stuff in, only for me to find that my shaving cream had exploded in the checked bag that I ...

We made it to Lima !  The fine folks at Mariel Hotel were there to pick us up right on time. We had an excellent view of the Miraflores area from our room. Our first adventure was finding the Cevicheria Del Mar ! Our first excellent meal in Peru - ...

... they don’t use meters.  Perhaps a good thing since the traffic in Lima is quite bad. As we were driving to our hotel, we noticed that Lima was really misty and the fog was quite low.  Also, while up in our hotel room, a taxi crashed into a ...

... at 4:30 to get a quick breakfast and then take the bus over to the airport to catch our flight to Lima.  Once we arrived our transfer to the hotel took quite a while because we kept running into what appeared to be a race course.  It turned out ...

... out, and after passing uneventfully through customs and immigrations I met my driver for the 25km drive from the airport to my hotel.  Lima is a city of 8M people and is without a metro, and so the streets were crowded with cars, buses, and ...

... little more touristy and modern in Lima.  We arrived in Miraflores at 4:00 pm. We had found enough room in the budget for a hotel, which allowed us to clean up a little better since it had hot water! The weather here was hot like fire! We walked ...

Chegamos em Lima por volta das 12:00 e pegamos um táxi direto para o nosso hotel que fica em Miraflores, um bairro nobre de Lima onde se concentram a maioria dos turistas. Resolvemos que ficaríamos no primeiro dia explorando esse bairro. O bairro é ...

... buses here are small shuttle buses, but you would be amazed to see how many people they can fit in to them. The Mariel Hotel is located very centrally in Miraflores, which is the buzzling second city centre of Lima. There are loads of shops, restaurant ...

... from a mid to high end hotel. A few others to check out would be Hotel El Ducado - www.ducado.pe , Mariel Hotel - www.mariel-hotel.com , Hotel Señorial – www.senorial.com and the Casa Andina Hotel - www.casa-andina.com Transport Cruz Del Sur is ...

... a bit more and going to bed early in preparation for another early morning and our flight back to Lima. I am now spending my last 2 nights in the Mariel hotel in Milflores with Amy before we go our separate ways (something that I am pretty glad of as ...

... quickly. The traffic to Lima from the airport was quite bad and it took a little hour to get there. This time at the Mariel Hotel I got a much better room at the 5th floor – even without asking – and they had naturally safe-guarded my left ...

... no idea it went on for so long.  That was a really neat experience to have.  After paragliding we returned to the hotel briefly and then went to do our last minute shopping, including one last trip to Kuna (the best alpaca store in Peru).  ...