HI - Tupiza - Valle Hermoso Hostel

Comment by Scott, Australian

March 2009

Great bed, worst service ever, and they don´t even provide papel!
This hostel has to decide if it is a hostel that looks after its guest or a tour operator. Seriously there is no one that works in the hostel, if you have the most simple enquiry you have to wait in the line with those trying to book a tour, this can be half an hour wait. Everything is a rip-off, you even have to pay to use the kitchen or keep something in the fridge. their currency rate is a lot worse than anywhere else in town. The advertised credit card facility doesn't work and you will instead be frog marched to the bank in the morning (this by the way will make you late for your tour of the Salt Flats) and don't even try to complain, very quickly they don't understand English (although they speak it perfectly when trying to sell things to you) and even threatened to call the police if I did not go to the bank with them. Listen the rooms are clean and lovely but stay somewhere else (even if it isn't as nice) and save yourself hours of wasted time and energy trying to get anything done. They are so cheap with everything they don't even supply you with papel!