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Casa de la Gringa

Cusco (San Blas)

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Address	Corner of Tandapata & Pasnapacana 148, Cusco (San Blas), Peru
Price	$15 high season, $8 low season, includes breakfast Check Current Prices by Date Here

Location/Contact

Details

Description

Casa de la Gringa is a very relaxed, safe, and super friendly place. In the mountains, only 5 minutes by cab from center. Big garden, with trees, flowers, hammocks, outside fireplace, sweatlodge, and always wonderful people. Perfect for travellers that are looking for tranquillity, peace and loads of fun, but close enough to the center when feeling like partying! We offer laundry service, travel service as well, (owning a travel agency called Another Planet) in the center,calle Triunfo 120, Plaza de Armas. We also work with sacred plant medicine. Please check into the web to view photos and the guest book, where you will see, this is a fantastic place to be. Owned by Lesley Myburgh, a South African, living in Peru for the past 6 years.

Features

Free Breakfast
Kitchen
Lockers
24 Hour Free Hot Showers
Lounge / Common space
Travel information provided
Gameroom
Clothes Dryer
TV
Phones (public or in room)
BBQ
Washing Machine (laundry)

Ratings & Comments

2.5 Average from 2 Ratings

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Comment by michael wilkinson, usa

June 2008

Good
not sure what you're looking for in latin america on a budget but i had three eggs, toast jam, good coffee with everything a backpacker is looking for, hot water, nice beds, TV, DVD, two lounge areas, young free crowd and cool owners. on a scale of one to ten of latin american hotels on a budget i would give it an eight and i've been going for a year.

Comment by CE, England

May 2007

Worst hostel in fifteen countries
We were actually recommended this place by a friend who obviously had a much better experience than us. We stayed in November 2006 -- didn't see any free breakfast! The place is all done out in hippy trippy decor and the cats' dirt trays are just left overflowing in a corner, pervading the hostel with a disgusting odour. Firstly we had to change our room after one night as the bed was so uncomfortable in to one with no curtains! We were staying here around our Inca Trail trip and we had no hot water before we left to go camping for four days and to add insult to injury -- there was none when we returned all achy and smelly! The so called secure storage was a corner of the common room, open to all. When we finally complained, the owner Lesley told us that we were difficult and despite putting twenty-four-hour Hot Showers on her advert, she told us that this was impossible to do in Cusco! What an insult to the other hostels and hotels who do manage to do this. It's not like we were expecting the Ritz, we had stayed in cheap places from Laos to Indonesia to Australia to the Amazon but this was poor. I've seen other reviews who, like our friend, have had a good time staying here but my advice is don't.

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