Hotel Samay Wasi — Hotel in Municipio Oruro

USD$36 per night = 240 BS per night = Free breakfast included before 9.30am. They will also give you a call in the morning and ask you if you want to stay for another night. ||||- Breakfast consists of stale bread, cold ham, cold hard-boiled egg and the highlight was the free flow of coca tea bags and hot water for us.||||- Nobody speaks english here. As soon as you arrive, just log on to the wifi and use the translationg app on your smartphone. The service at the front reception is a little hit and miss, sometimes good sometimes bad so cannot really comment. Lets just say its frustrating if you cannot speak spanish.||||- No hairdryer/blowdryer||||- Be prepared to have a challenging moment when it comes to using the shower. Hot water is too hot while the cold water is difficult to adjust to the temperature you require.||||- Bathroom is clean in Bolivia standard but not to the 7-star resort style in America or Europe. Recommend to stay one night here before the day you head off to Uyuni.||||- If you stay in the room near the main street facing the bus terminal, it gets very very very noisy. There is a lady out at the front selling minvan tickets during the day. She will be yelling and shouting the whole day to bring business in for the minivan company. Be prepared to have an early morning wakie.||||- The bed is super lumpy and bedsheet was not even a bedsheet. It was a flatsheet.||||- Free wifi works well in the lobby and second floor near the lobby. Did not work in our room at all. ||||- Lobby has free water provided.||||- If you are catching a train to Uyuni in the afternoon, the girl at the front desk can help you ring a taxi to Oruro train station. Bargain the price down to 10 Bs with the taxi driver. They are more than happy to take you there.||||- There is a restaurant linked to the back of the front reception. We saw a lot of people eating at the restaurant during lunchtime. There are a lot of restaurants around that area offering Menu Del Dia options for about 13 Bs, be sure to try one of them because it comes with a salad, soup, main and dessert. It is better than having unhealthy oily chicken at the chicken shops.||||||If you think my reviews have been helpful to you, please click 'Yes' for 'Was this...

I will preface this review by saying that Oruro is a very remote and underdeveloped city that only really draws outsiders for about 4 days a year, so it would be unfair to judge it by the same standards of a more international city like La Paz. HOWEVER, I've stayed in much cheaper, much cleaner, and much more friendly hotels and hostels in similarly remote places. If it were anywhere else I would have given it one star, but given the relative standards I'm inclined to be slightly more generous. ||||The good: ||-Good hot water, totally acceptable water pressure ||-Close to bus station ||-Sort of less bad looking than other places I saw?||-Filling breakfast ||-They booked me a reservation at their sister hotel in Uyuni which was actually a nice place||-There was wifi in the lobby…||||The bad:||-Was there for a week, no one cleaned the room or even gave me a fresh towel (it wasn't during carnival, so it wasn't because they were busy)||-Cranky teenage girl was at the desk for most of the time and was pretty useless ||-Buses stop right out in front so there are always a lot of people outside waiting and/or selling things ||-…but it was really bad wifi that didn't reach my room ||||The ugly:||-Laughably obvious suspicious white stain on one of the blankets…I'm no princess that's definitely where I draw the...

A lovely European styled hotel located just across the street from the Bus terminus. ||In fact, I only decided to try this place after I found out that the place I was supposedly booked in to by Bolivia Travel (and for which a deposit had been paid), was both full, and had not received notice of my reservation anyway. Zero points for Bolivia Travel, who I would suggest to any others, never to use.||The hotel itself is very tastefully decorated, and has a guests lounge on each of the two floors, from which the outside bustle can be very pleasantly observed.||My single room at the Hotel Sumaj Wasi was spacious, well decorated and furnished, and had a comfortably soft queen size bed. They even provide toiletries, including an absolutely lovely scented soap||It is located about twenty minutes’ walk from the city centre, but then from what you see of Oruro, and the fact that most are just passing through using the bus, the hotel is ideally located.||Its rates are very reasonable, and include a very good free breakfast.||Only Spanish is spoken at the hotel, but the staff are very patient and accommodating in reaching ultimate understandings between themselves and guests, and providing...