La Casa Escondida -Chincana Wasi

Comment by fdoamerica, USA

October 2008

Avoid
I book this hostel for a group of eighteen (Oct 2008). I visited the hostel ahead of time and meet with the owner. She promised, in writing, as part of the total charges -- Airport transport, welcome drink, and clean rooms with heaters. I got none, zero, of the above. The owner would not accept credit cards and I needed to pay in cash prior to arriving. When my group arrived we had to get our own transportation to the hostel, we had to pay for our Pisco Sours, the rooms were dirty, some smelled of mold, and on the first night we ran out of hot water after the three showers. The sheets were so thin that you could read the mattress label. A cell phone and a CD player were stolen from the rooms. I could go on about the dirty carpets in the rooms that were tacky when you walked on them, or about the very heavy smell of cigarette smoke in four of the rooms. To make matters worse, on the second day we ran out of water -- none for thirty-six hours. When I sought to change to another hostel, the owner refused to refund any of the money. We left anyway. Now I am pressing charges via the Peruvian agency INDECOPI. A very bad experience.

La Casa Escondida -Chincana Wasi

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