La Chimba Hostel

... drain (the poetic amongst us may call it a river) that seemed to be the universal dumping ground. We stayed at La Chimba Hostel (would recomend), this was voted as one of the best Latin American hostels for security. Hostelworld is absolute gold for ...

... driver's speed, ours went at 99km the entire way. We eventually arrived in Santiago at 6.30pm the next day and headed straight to our hostel, La Chimba on the metro (we're back in the big city now). The hostel was really nice, if a little cold, as we are ...

... volcano behind me and jumped on Tur Bus to Santiago. 10 hours pleasant journey actually, despite not having a flat bed ;-) Arrived at La Chimba hostel, which turned out to be one of the best hostels I have stayed at on this trip. Check their rating at ...

Life here in Chile has been keeping me busy busy busy! As you know, I arrived around two weeks ago and stayed at the La Chimba Hostel, which was a BLAST!  My seatmate on the plane was this really nice girl, 28yrs and a vet, and she gave me her ...

... around 1am so you can imagine how hard it was to drag ourselves to lessons in the morning after only a couple of hours sleep. La Chimba hostel in Bellavista was the best hostel we've stayed in since we've been away and really felt like home. We were ...

... We made to Santiago with luggage this time! We had a transfer reserved to pick us up and to take us to the La Chimba Hostel. At first sight, Santiago is just a big city... nothing crazy about it. Our hostel was actually located at the restaurant/bars ...

... , which was slightly surprising, not that it bothered me too much.  Once off the bus I got a taxi to Bellavista and La Chimba hostel. I didn't do much that night, other than chat to a few in the hostel and get takeaway pasta from the restaurant ...

... (lack of accommodation!). But to think that he has a concert on Tuesday night just blows me away. I´m staying at La Chimba Hostel... highly recommended. I have a 6 bed dorm, sharing with an Asian guy from America. He has been here for 2.5 weeks and ...

... Baquedano stop and a short walk (OK, with the backpacks it was a REALLY LONG walk of of 8 blocks or so). We arrived at La Chimba hostel. Pretty nice place. Very clean. We dropped our bags and looked at a few maps and went for a stroll. A few blocks ...

... (which we were lucky to see over the weekend), there were a few stray dogs running with the people! We stayed at La Chimba Hostel in the bohemian neighborhood of Bellavista. The neighborhood is located close to a big university so it had a very ...

... gathering our luggage, paying a whopping $130USD entrance fee, and being ripped off by the shuttle buses we arrived at La Chimba Hostel, located in one of the trendiest and most visited neighbourhoods in Santiago. At the moments we´ve gotten as far as ...

Well, we took a night bus from Caldera to Santiago and arrived about 11 in the morning, took the metro to our hostel, La Chimba and had a great day finalizing a few different things. We needed to confirm and pay for our reservation for our ferry ride ...

... - was going to be strange in a new place on my own for the first time on my travels- ended up staying in La Chimba youth hostel in Barrio Bellavista - the bohemian area of Santiago - After a few days mooching around I realised I would have to ...

... was instantly excited...Chileans had style! My 'travellers' wardrobe suddenly became even more incompetent!  We stayed in a really nice hostel called La Chimba which was 2 big houses joined together! It was in the area of Bella Vista which I loved for ...

... ; As it was, the taxi driver found the area and just asked loads of locals, before we arrived at the hostel. Once at the hostel, La Chimba (voted the best hostel in South America and third in the world in 2006 according to HostelWorld.com - hence ...

... in santiago, which is enough time to spend there...it's not a bad city at all but it's nothing really new. I stayed in a hostel called La Chimba which was really nice, and near some good places for going out. As it was coming up to Christmas most of ...

... be a pretty standard city, not too much to see from a tourist perspective but it seems pretty safe (touch wood) and the hostel I´m staying in La Chimba is really nice and has a few activities at night. For example my first night there was a wine tasting ...

... session and we went to bed not caring how loud the nightclub next door was blasting its music out. DAILY FACTS - Stayed at: La Chimba. Great beds with real feather duvets. Nice cosy feel and has free internet. Also has a fairly constant smattering ...