Hotel LP Columbus® — Hotel in La Paz

This is a modern, comfortable property in a good location, being just in between the Sopocachi and downtown areas of La Paz. Although it's not an easy city to walk around, everything you'd want to see is within reasonable walking distance of the hotel.||||The staff are friendly enough and the property seems clean and well maintained, but there are annoyances that rather mar the experience. However, since it is a 3* property and is offering 3* rates, the experience is pretty much 3.||||The rooms are modern and bright, with the walls, linens, towels and bathroom all a bright white. The bedding is clean and fresh, although the towels are suspiciously stained. The bed is comfortable, but the lighting is a bit harsh and some of the lights in the room - notably the reading lights over the desk - didn't work. There are blinds on the window that do little to blot out light. The bathroom is modern with a wide, walk in shower, with very good hot water pressure. The basin is in between the room and the bathroom, but has been installed at a weird angle. Soap, shampoo & conditioner are all supplied in dispensers screwed to the walls and there's no other amenity such as a hairdryer. There is a fridge with very expensive mini bar, but nothing much else in the room other than a flat screen TV which I never used.||||Noise is the primary issue for this property. The windows are double glazed, but they may as well not be. In fact, they may as well be wide open for all the sound proofing from the street. Even conversations from locals on foot are clearly heard in the rooms. Internally, the walls are super thin and you will hear every single word spoken by your neighbours - as well as all their movements - and the bathrooms are so badly insulated that you'll also know every single function they're performing. ||||Breakfast is provided in a clean, modern cafeteria, but despite having four or five staff on hand, they don't seem very up to speed. Coffee ran out, the hot items all ran out, water was always running out, yet the staff did little to replenish. Boiled eggs were served, but despite being hot to touch, they were actually raw when cracked. However, there is a wide selection of fresh fruits and cereals, as well as some rather unappetizing cheese and spam. ||||WIFI is available throughout the property and the front desk will also print things if you need them, by emailing them your document. They'll also call taxis for you and they do provide a map of La Paz, with all the tourist spots highlighted. ||||It's a perfectly OK 3 experience, but the noise is something that really lets the...

Location was very convinient. We were able to navigate La Paz from the hotel location.||The low review is due to the uncorftomness of the room. The bed had no bed frame and it| would roll all over the room due the missing lock on the wheels. I asked a room attendant if something could be done and shamefully she just stucked the wheels with small cardboard pieces. The actual design lacks on common sense. The big roll shade on the window makes your already limited panorama more limited, you have to roll up the whole thing if you want to look outside during the night. A mini bar that uses the space of a more comfortable chair (who's buying an expensive bottle of water when you have the minimarket near the hotel selling it for less than the half). The lay out of the bathroom is also ridiculous. A glass sliding door that half of it is frozen glass and the other half is see through, come on! Where's the privacy? Regardless if you are with your couple you need privacy for number 1 or 2!|| Seriously, the hotel looks nice and neat on the putside but once you get to the dark hallways it makes you think if you are in a hotel or a cheap motel with white cheap hollow doors and a perturbing smell of oil or cleaning chemical even inside the room. ||Something that finally broke my patience was that on the last night around 10:30 pm the person at rhe front desk called our room telling me that my checkout was the next day and that they only wnated to know if we needed a taxi to take us to the airport. I was so irritated first, we went to bed early because we had to catch a flight early next day. Second, the guy immediatily said, "Oh, if you don't want me to program a taxi right now you can ways program it tomorrow early, they're always arpind the hotel anyways" I literally wanted to go off on him! Why did he call the room and wake us if the taxi could be called early in the morning? ||I hate to throw people under the bus, but the service of the staff is not as friendly and genuine as in Peru or Mexico. Main front desk guy was very condescending and robotic. It seems to be a patron for whoever holds a supervisor position in Bolivia. We notice the same with a server in Uyuni.||I'm not sure if there's a better or worse place to stay in La Paz. I checked reviews before booking and normally my expectations are reached. This time...

A tour operator booked this hotel and gave us a triple room. At the hotel we found out it was not a real triple room but a twin room with an small extra bed for my 20 y old son... the room was way to small for 3 adults. 50 cm between the beds and no space for the luggage. So the next morning we wanted to book an extra room to have all some extra space. It took us 1,5 hour to make it happen... why didn't they want to urn more money with an extra room? Then we wanted to give us our laundry in. We needed to fill a laundryslip what they will send up later into the room. We waited 20 min for the laundryform. Filing in the laundry slip, the total came out more then 2 nights sleep for the extra room?? So we took it ourself to the laundromat. Which came out 10 times cheaper. You may urn on your guests but this stood out for 1 load of laundry.|This morning we needed a taxi to the airport. We asked the day before already if they could arrange the taxi for 05h00. They did call the same morning. We got a taxi. But it was a small car with the boot full with files. The taxidriver told us that at this our hardly drivers are working. So there was no other solution. The hoot had only space for 1 suitcase. No help of the guy behind the desk. The taxi costed 120Bs instead of the 9Bs with Yango, while it was my scariest taxidrive with all other luggage on top of ourselfves.|Location may be in the centre (next to the soccerstadion) but not in the centre for the tourist. This was the mistake of the tour operator.|Advice is to download yango to move around in the evening as the receptionist told us that you can't walk around after 20h00 at night|We are 'already'15 days in Peru and Bolivia and this was the poorest breakfast so far. Only apple and 2 slices melon for fruit for everyone. Only a boiled...