Name: Hotel Villa Mar
Address: Calle 11 # 1C-85. Santa Marta Centro a tres calles del Parque Simon Bolivar, Santa Marta, Santa Marta, Santa Marta, 470008, Colombia
Rating: 5

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The rooms are cheap, and clean, but there are no windows. Makes you claustrofobic and it is a long walk to the center. Better to take a taxi with ac which will end up in a treffen jam. There was Brown water coming out of the shower.

Cheap, clean rooms, but not again

We booked the private room in the hotel Villa del Mar via Booking.com prior to coming to Santa Marta without looking at the hotel / room conditions which was a huge mistake. The room was pretty expensive for the town, 60,000 COP per night, and the quality was unfortunately bad: no windows (so I felt a bit claustrophobic), very poor air conditioning (there was a conditioner on the well but it barely helped), the staff wasn't very friendly and the bathroom was ok but could be much better. Luckily we need to stay just one night, so it was fine. The good thing was the hotel's location - very close to the sea & city center. Also we were glad the hotel allowed us to store our bags for a couple of days for free while we were traveling to Tayrona - however most of the places do so as well.

My advise: don't book anything in advance if it's not the main season, better come and look, ask at several different places and don't stay in a private room unless you really need to. Later on I stayed in another hostel in S.Marta, much cheaper and better quality though not so close to the beach.

Better book a hostel

We thought we were saving some money but in the end we were just pissed off and ended up spending a ton more on a nice hotel the next day just to forget all about this terrible experience.

Tried two different rooms, first one had the toilet broken, second both the toilet and the shower was broken. On top of that in the second one the sheets were stained and the bed made us smell like pee the next day. The cochroaches seemed happy though and the staff was quite nice although they would only give us 10% discount for not having a working bathroom.

My conclusion, if you're on a very very VERY strict budget, this place is ok, but if you have any standards whatsoever then go somewhere else.

Cheap but falling apart

Do not stay here, it's not even worth saving the money. The room was ok. Bathroom was revolting. During our time there was regularly police in the lobby. We ended up literally running out after someone was standing on a bucket peeping in to our room. Just don't. 

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