Monticulo Apart Hotel — Hotel in La Paz

I accompanied my boyfriend to La Paz in May-June of 2006 as he had to do some business there. He chose the Apart Hotel Sopocachi because of its location--right in his old neighborhood--and because of the fact that we expected to need something more spacious than a regular hotel room for our month-long stay. This location is just off the Calle Alfredo Ascarrunz and about two or three blocks away from the Plaza Avaroa.||||All in all, we were very happy with this apartment building/hotel. First of all, it's very clean; sheets and towels get washed frequently, although not every day (as this is a place where guest turn-over isn't as frequent as in typical hotels). The bathrooms consistently have hot water and are also very clean, and the staff provide free glycerin soap and shampoo samples and, at a fee, laundry service. The room's kitchen was fully equipped, and our unit also had a spacious living room, in addition to the two bedrooms. The master bedroom, which we occupied, had a large closet, two night tables, and small table with a TV. The smaller bedroom had a full- or queen-sized bed, a night table, and a reasonably sized closet, but no TV. The living room had a small couch, two chairs, a coffee table, a desk, and a small, round table with four dining chairs--lots of room for entertaining. All rooms had windows, and the master bedroom and living room had panoramic views of the neighborhood. Very nice!||||We were overall very pleased with the staff. They were wonderful with relaying phone messages, calling taxis, offering waiting visitors a comfortable place to sit, and so on. The doorman on the night we left actually went so far as to come out to make sure a fair price was negotiated with the cabbie who was taking us to the airport. The security at the apart hotel was very good; the front doors were locked by a certain time every evening, but someone is always on staff in the lobby to let you in if you arrive after-hours. Furthermore, for the two nights we spent in Copacabana, even though we left the majority of our luggage in our room in the Apart Hotel Sopocachi and were still technically occupying our apartment, they told us that they would not charge us for our nights spent out of La Paz (I thought that that was very impressive!).||||One important note to travelers who discover this hotel online; if planning on a longer stay and paying by credit card, you MUST bring the particular credit card you intend to use to La Paz. As of June of 2006, the hotel didn't have the technology necessary for online/remote payments and refused to (as well as claimed not to have the ability to) take the number of a card we opted not to bring. (We prefer to use a particular rewards card for large purchases; we left it at home for the month we were in South America because it has a limit higher than we'd have felt comfortable paying if the card were to have been stolen abroad.) ||Obviously, we didn't ask them to process it at the last minute; we offered to have them try to process an initial payment during our first week so that they could prove the card was valid well before our check-out. No matter what you can do to prove that your card is real (even a photocopy, or a copy of a bill or payment), they literally CAN'T take it. Thus, if you see that this or any hotel in Bolivia doesn't offer the option of paying online, they are likely ONLY to accept either cash or a card that you have on your person during your stay.||||One aspect of the hotel's staff that I found odd was that, if we had slept in, they would call the room and ask if we would be gone by a particular time so that the cleaning crew could enter. Since we had nothing stolen from our room during our month at the Apart Hotel Sopocachi, I don't think that the question was a suspicious one, although, at the beginning, I found their encouraging us to leave the room (just so they could clean) rather odd--especially since there was going to be no guest turn-over. I suppose their calls were just a matter of courtesy.||||In the future, if we had to return to La Paz for an extended period of time, we would be happy to stay at the same location. This hotel/renting experience was great. It gets a four from me rather than a five only because the carpeting, furnishings, and blankets look slightly old, but there was nothing truly negative about the...

Nice and spacious appartments. Furniture is a bit old fashioned but okay. Nice area just above Plaza Alvaroa and below Plaza Espana. Wireless internet in all the rooms an TV in the master bedroom.||||But, be sure not to leave any valuables in the room. When I stayed there things went missing from the fridge. First I thought I was mistaken but then whole packages of cheese disappeared from the fridge. Also some money was stolen from one of my bags. So be warned! I filed a complaint but the staff didn´t seem to eager to do anything about it. ||||So lot cheaper then the options more down towards El Prado but your belongings don´t...

si van a bolivia en auto, puede ser un calvario. estacionar es casi imposible y muy pocos hoteles cuentan con cochera propia, tal vez si los mas caros, esta opcion, si bien queda un poco alejada del centro de la ciudad, tiene cochera (ojo, solo para dos coches, pero se puede estacionar en la calle ya que es una zona mas alejada y un tanto mas tranquila) ademas es muy tranquilo y los departamentos tienen vista al monticulo que es verdaderamente muy bonito. a mi me encanto, las habitaciones son amplias, el departamente esta muy limpio, el desayuno es muy bueno, lo unico malo es la ducha que es electrica y a mi se me rompio justo q me duchaba, pero al volver al otro dia, estaba reparada, asi que atienden los desperfectos rapido. me parecio muy buen apart. yo volveria sin dudas. ademas, si bien queda un poco alejado, en el monticulo pasa uno de los simpaticos colectivos que dejan a menos de una cuadra del centro. es el colectivo...