Name: Casa Del Escritor
Address: Carrera 7 14-11 Centro Historico,Carrera 7, Santa Marta, Santa Marta, Santa Marta, 470005, Colombia
Rating: 9

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The place is centrally located, yet quiet. Friendly owner, airport pickup worked fine. 
It’s a pity that for a place with a “literary ambition”, the place lacks character due to the cheap furnishings (plastic bathroom door, single-hose shower) and lack of maintenance (old, stained bedsheets need replacing). 
Also a shame breakfast is only from 8am as many people come to Santa Marta to proceed towards Tayrona and Lost City and need the leave early. 

Good location, friendly owner

We stayed here 2 nights before and after our trip to Ciudad Perdida. We were well received and got a lot of information from the host (who is, indeed, a writer). The house is decorated in a lovely way and breakfast is good. The room we had the first night, though not spotless, was quiet and charming.
We left our luggage at the hotel and moved to a different room for the last night. It was bigger and facing the street, which meant more noise (but that's true for any Colombian hotel room next to a street). The aircon also wasn't up to scratch, so it was unbearably hot in the room. The owner said this was due to electricity works in the street, but it was switched on the whole time... Moreover, it was still not cooling much the next morning when the electricity was on again. We very much doubt electricity works were really the problem. 
All in all we had a nice stay, but it would have been nice if they had provided us with a fan. Also, the rooms could be cleaner and can use some TLC (eg. leaking shower, no shower head, stained bath mat, hot tub on the patio out of service). A lot is made up by the friendly staff, nice interior and good location though. 

Quaint and friendly, but needs maintenance

As a 25-30 y.o. couple this place is just perfect: comfy, quiet and very clean private room decorated with taste and attention to detail, and a very nice little common exterior place to eat the (very good) breakfest and meet the others if you want.

Perfect location close to everything, devoted host, and cool cat George.

Definitely recommend!

Perfect place

Basically all the stuff the others liked and disliked, but I would like to point out 2 things;
- the location is theoretically excellent. 5 minutes to the restaurants, 10 min toch beach and 5 to the minca/Tayrona bus stop. However be aware that the 5 minutes to the tourist city centre gets dodgy right after sunset. Please do not use the street east of the hostel.
- language; me and my girlfriend picked up some Spanish during this trip and up until now we managed perfectly. However in this hotel, they managed to speak very difficult full sentences, which resulted in a ton of misunderstandings. They were very helpful though, and Google translate helps a lot then.

Lovely hotel

We stayed here on our way from Cartagena to Ciudad Perdida for one night. The room was pretty big with a comfortable bed, although a bit small for two Dutch people, shower and toilet. Hosts were friendly, but did not speak English. Overall good stay. 

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