Onkel Inn Airport Sleepbox — Hotel in El Alto

Ok, so picture this.... it’s 1am, the whole airport is filled with zombie people sleeping all over the place, floors, empty rooms, chairs..... mean while 4 feet away sits a hostel. Why you ask, are all these people choosing to sleep ON THE FLOOR vs in a bed, if given the opportunity? I have the answer.....this place is legitimately a scam. FIRST, the prices change. They are different online, on the board outside the place and then again when you talk to the person working there. It is MORE money for a double then a single....so for my husband and I it would make more sense to get singles (unless I’m getting this wrong from the 15 different ways it was explained to us). It has no bathroom or shower. To go to the bathroom you walk outside and use the airports bathrooms(obviously no showers there!) Thats not all! It is actually hotter then the jungle I just left. ||Ok, despite all this, we were just resigned to paying the money after a week sleeping with spiders and getting bitten by mosquitoes, we were just done and tired. We go to pay the guy and he tells us “cash only” (he is standing NEXT to a credit card machine and has a paypal sign over his head...🤣🤣🤣 I cant make this stuff up) when we question him on this he says a bunch of things that don’t make sense and basically “you’re sh*t out of luck if you don’t have cash” (now mind you, we have walked around the hotel by now and there is not a SINGLE person in there.....Or they fried to death from the heat, I’m not sure) Needless to say, we didn’t stay. My guess would be that he’s trying to embezzle money from his employer by pocketing the cash. My suggestion: Get a coffee next door (all the stores stay open all night) or find an empty store front upstairs and sleep in there like we/all the other people in the...

Onkel Inn at LPB El Alto Aeropuerto location where we stayed was nothing but scam!||||653522275||||I wish I could give ZERO on their rating.||||We arrived at 01:30 am on Feb. 5, 2019 at LPB La Paz, El Alto Airport. Our local friend had made our reservation at Onkel Inn at the airport for a room for 2 adults, for 400 bs. total. Upon our arrival from Lima, Peru, we were sleepy, exhausted, and feeling dizzy due to the altitude of approx. 4,000m, or 13,100'.||||A terrible welcome by an unfriendly male front staff, who said there were no reservation of ours and said there were rooms for a total of 600 bs. instead of 400 bs. we had confirmed for through our Bolivian friend who lived in La Paz. We had no choice but to stay to protect our schedule for our trip. Bathroom wasn't there but outside of the inn. Yes, we had to use the airport bathroom nearby. Air conditioner was working only on the isle. Our rooms were tiny, and especially my room was like a sauna. I was dehydrated, hot and above all I could not sleep or rest. It was like a hell on the very first day of Bolivia.||||By the way, we had visited Bolivia every year in the past four years through this very airport and it was our fifth. Oh boy, we were wrong to try this accommodation. They definitely take advantage of tired visitors who are not used to the altitude, and have no choice but eager to get into bed. The charge seemed to be expensive for the condition and service. It was not any reasonable humane conditions. We got sick because of heat and humidity in our rooms. I feel we were scammed. We will visit Bolivia again but will NEVER use this...

As anyone who frequents La Paz knows, flight times from the US (and other places) land at inconvenient times and don't always line up with connections. We always connect to Cochabamba through La Paz and, when we fly on Sundays, it's a 5 or 6 hour layover. If you're exhausted from the red eye, and probably exhausted from the altitude, you've only got two options: try to sleep in any of a small number of very dingy airport chairs or do something that is MUCH BETTER for only $20-$30.||||Onkel Inn isn't the Ritz Carlton and the sleeping pods are small and utilitarian. They get pretty warm and and are clean enough (not really dirty, but not quite fresh) and though not noise-free, they're mostly free from distractions. And they are leaps and bounds better than the alternative: no sleep at all. I'd rest there again. For me, it was worth it.||||Side note: I left my very expensive camera there by mistake and got on a flight to Cochabamba. I called in a panic many hours later (figuring the camera was as good as gone) and they were like "Oh yeah, just come by when you fly back through and we'll have it waiting for you". Five days later, they did--and gave it right back in perfect condition. AMAZING service...