Basecamp Cochamó — Hotel in Cochamó

We love Basecamp! And we love Francisco! We arrived to base camp not knowing about it during a late evening in March. He greeted us at the entrance and kindly offered to show us around. I believe it was $8 a person a night to camp, and that included hot showers. It’s more expensive than the campground next door, but way nicer (the other campground is super crowded, and no showers). ||We arrived and had a short walk from our car to the site. It was a beautiful open area with the mountains surrounding us. There are really nice bathrooms and showers that were recently built. Multiple huge sinks to do your dishes. There is another common area under shelter to eat, hang out, have a fire. He even has a little trailer that Has great food! (Sandwiches, breakfast, hot dogs) for a very reasonable price being as remote as it is. It had everything we could want for a campground! Parking cost is also included the next day if you camp there. ||We got to know Francisco during our time there and he is a wonderful host. He helped us with planning, find wood for the fire, connected us with people at La Junta; he really made our experience special. We will be...

Aviso: si te gusta la experiencia de acampar en la nada, todo silvestre, mi evaluación no será de mucha ayuda. Ahora, considerando el precio y los otros camping que visité en mi viaje a la carretera austral, es que el servicio es MUY deficiente. La persona que nos recibió de muy mala gana,tuvimos que sacarle con tirabuzón la "información", ya que fue muy parco. No hay espacios delimitados para acampar, es donde "encuentres", en este sentido, no hay lugares para sentarse (algo que sí tenían la mayoría de los camping a los que fuimos). No había electricidad en ninguna parte del camping (se veían las instalaciones eléctricas, pero sin funcionar) ir al baño de noche era un periplo ya que había que ir con linterna. Mala limpieza, había ducha con agua caliente pero con horario muy limitado ( 1 hora de día y 1 hora de noche). Nos cobraron 10 mil pesos por "esto" Si entiende la intención de preservar la naturaleza , pero por el precio lo mínimo sería invertir en electricidad y en espacios delimitados con un mesón y bancas (como en todos los camping que cobran mucho menos que el base camp de Cochamó. Además nos desagradó mucho saber que estos kismos personajes intentaron cercar y cobrar por entrar a los toboganes y que los arrieros tuvieron que sacar a machetazos la cerca, estamos hablando de una maravilla natural de uso público....

We stayed at BaseCamp on a raining season, we were protected by their nice facilities. We were invited from locals to a lamb barbecue with locals. Nice people with nice food under the roof. Over there you can park your car to go to La Junta, they have toilettes with hot shower, the best way is to stay at BaseCamp and start your journey early morning, also they have “pilcheros” horse...