Casa Medina Hotel
General information:The elegant Hotel Casa Medina, set in the heart of Bogota\'s new
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business district, has become one of Colombia\'s national monuments. Hotel Casa Medina was declared a national monument in 1985, undergoing a careful and exciting rest...
Advantages: Easy to navigate Disadvantages: Traffic jams
...This city is immense and viewed from the vantage point of Monseratte it seemed to fill the entire plain below. The phenomonal difference in the northern and southern suburbs is sometimes ovewhelming but both have thier own beauty. In the the north there are elegant and palatial homes, areas of great beauty and historical interest, modern shopping malls and restaurant areas (Zona Rosa). You can buy emeralds, sleep in comfortable and expensive hotels, and pretend for a while that this is a city in central Europe. In the south you will experience the shanty towns, poverty at ground level, literally, and some large part of the real Colombia which is the friendliness and happy disposition of the people.
The city offers a multitude of historical and interesting sites all of which are better described in the Lonely Planet but the city itself...
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Advantages: Luxurious, Friendly ,an unforgetable experience Disadvantages: The price perhpas, but no, not really, it's more than worth it
...The Casa de la Marquesa is an amazingly beautiful and luxurious hotel. After your first step in the lobby, you have the feeling that you went back in time. And back then, you were very rich and powerfull. Each suites are large and have a different decor and all are beautiful. I haven't seen them all but I got married in Queretaro and most of the room where occupied by friends and family, so I saw most of them..
Despite the luxurious aspect of the hotel, it's a very friendly atmosphere and all the staff make you feel like you belong there.
The location is ideal, right in the center of Queretaro (which by the way is an extremly beautiful city and one of the cleanest I've seen.)
The price is cheap for the quality you get, but probably not the hotel you're looking for if you're on a tight budget.
If it's the case, in the same street, you...
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