Hotel Real Leon

... and a huge playground for kids.  Once we checked out of the Hotel Arena, which I must say is the best hotel yet, we drove about 200 km to Leon.  We took the Autopista, which allowed us to drive 120 kph.  There were lots of tunnels, the ...

... Musac (Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon) -Back on the bus, to Astorgia. Below: Astorgia's magnificant cathedral -Gaudi's Palacia de Gauai -Lugos: walked 2km of the 3rd Century walls around the city -The hotel we stay at! Entry to the rooms we sleep ...

Leon is our first stay in a hostel, rather than a hotel, and we like it. It´s great to be able to cook your own food for a change, speak to people, hang out and play pool and generally relax. We have a private room and the hostel is renowned for being a ...

... skip Granada and just head straight to Leon, and I have decided that I pretty much agree with the sentiment. I loved Leon! It actually feels like a real town, and while there are a good number of tourists the town handles them well. There is a ton of ...

... them $75 total for 3 females traveling alone and we ended up hitch hiking the last 2 hours of our trip and having to pay for a hotel room we reserved in advance (115 bucks) that we didn't make it to because they drivers of the bus didn't get us there ...

... coffee and rich pastries and went to the bus station to get the bus (shshsh! Don´t tell anyone!) We were in Leon by 9.45am and have checked into a hotel for two days. We have had lunch, seen the cathedral and booked ourselves in for massages later in the ...

... morning we decided to have a royal breakfast... fruit salad, 3 bigs pancakes, ornage juice and tea. We left the hotel and took a mini bus to Leon, a small town 1h north of Managua. One thing funny in central america is the music. On the radio, there ...

... i arrived there i was in a mannick bus station on the outskirts of town so i flagged down a taxi and told him the name of the hotel i needed to go to. Once dropping my stuff off there i took a visit to the pizza place which was right at the top of the ...

... . We made it as far as Tegucigalpa, the gritty, noisy, traffic clogged capitol of Honduras, and lucked into staying at a hotel just two blocks from a Pizza Hut. Not normally on the prowl for western franchise restaurants, we've been making the ...

... dry 30 degree heat as the journey. Stay at Casa Vieja (Old House) which was a white-washed hotel with a courtyard and very few perpendicular lines. Had a real family feel to it and we were disappointed we didn´t have time to sit and chat. Leon ...

... climb up the volcano is tiring, but the views are fantastic and make it worth the effort. The photos tell the story! We enjoy dinner at another very fancy hotel in Leon tonight, and celebrate on of our tour members’ birthday. A truly fantastic ...

... wasn’t very far from the hot springs, honestly. The hotel was beautiful, as with any ISA excursion. It was called Hotel Real De Minas. I was surprised by the fact that it was really handicapped friendly. They had ramps everywhere so that people in ...

... town´s limits. It took no time to locate the hotel and a very hard day had produced just 86 km in 5 hours. The hotel was a stinker - literally! The drains in the bathroom smelled pretty awful, the shower didn´t work and nor did the TV remote. A ...

... their persistence to gain independence makes this place very unique. Next day was election day - and we were off to Granada (Leon's prettier twin city) - hopefully avoiding any trouble in the country's capital on the way. The last week had certainly seen ...

... down the side of an active volcano. After a longer than expected climb  (10 minutes in Latino time= 1 hour real time) and getting some great shots of the Nicaraguan landscape complete with more sky scrapping volcanoes dotting the small farms that ...

... fabulous!   After that, we had the afternoon off. We kind of split into some groups. Some people went back to the hotel; some people went off to find a little restaurant place that we had seen the night before; and the rest (Me, Anna, Stephanie, ...

... town. We drove under the historic roman aquaduct on our way to our hotel for the night. We booked another parrador hotel, Hotel San Antonio el Real, founded in an old convict. The room was comfortable, though not of such a high standard as our previous ...