Hotel Melodia, Lima

Advantages: Clean and adequate
Disadvantages: Forgettable, in a business district, frequent power cuts

...The Posada del Inca is a medium sized 4* hotel located in a deathly quiet upper class residential street in the business district of San Isidro, one of Lima's finest neighbourhoods. Surrounded by some of the most expensive real estate in the Peruvian capital, the hotel is in walking distance of the ultra-fashionable beach-side neighbouring suburb of Miraflores, and within a car ride of the decaying splendour of the colonial old town. The international airport is a 25 minute drive away, most easily undertaken in a taxi to avoid multiple bus changes. I stayed here for two nights in January 2006, on a bed and breakfast basis. FACILITIES On entering the hotel, guests are greeted by a marble decored reception area located in the centre of an unremarkable glass-fronted open plan lobby. To the left was a plain multi-purpose restaurant... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Safe place
Disadvantages: Nothing to do outside

...Lima is not the best place to go on holidays, although some turist companies try to lie on this. This is the case of this hotel and the way they sell the city to foreigners. Yes, the hotel is nice, safe, it has facilities but only if you want to spend you money and time inside the hotel you are gonna be content. There is not much to do around the city. Miraflores, where the hotel is, is a nice place but people don't socialise very much and everything is more expensive for been one of the richest districts of the city. The hostel is quite cheap (for foreigners) and the people who work there are quite friendly. The services they offer are the basic usual ones. Good hotel and very central but in the wrong place. There is not much to do in the night in this part od Miraflores, you will always need to take a taxi in the night to go back... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: weather, people, cheap (once you're there)
Disadvantages: usual of any big city

...Most people when they visit Peru just use Lima as a pass through point in their hurry to reach other destinations such as the old Inca towns of Cusco and Macha Pichu. I, however, spent the vast amount of my holiday in Lima itself. This is because I visited the country with my Peruvian boyfriend and stayed with his family in there. Lima is a costal city on the west of South America and it is the capital of Peru. I arrived in Lima after a 14-hour flight, I flew with KLM and we made a short, re-fuel stop in the Caribbean Island of Bonaire. Apart from this short stop my flight was direct from Amsterdam to Lima. The fist thing that struck me when I got off the plane was the instant wave of heat that hit me; compared to Belgium weather at this time of year was a real shock! I have a surreal memory of my first journey through Peru from... Read review

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