Hotel Diego de Almagro Iquique — Hotel in Iquique

Hotel Diego de Almagro was built in 2012 and offers 184 rooms over 12 floors. The hotel is located in Cavancha, close to the University. At walking distance you find the Ocean boulevard and the beach. Staffs are welcoming and friendly.||||We had a spacious non-smoking room with desk & chair, wardrobe & safe, flat screen TV, minibar fridge, an good queen size bed, and a separate bathroom with washbasin, toilet & shower over the bath. Free Wi-Fi internet. All was clean.||||We came in July, wintertime and obviously there was no-one in the pool. The hotel mainly has Chilean guests, often families, we found that a good sign. The window can be opened. The complimentary buffet breakfast is OK. After a tour to the Isluga National Park we wanted to warm up in the sauna and found it already reserved. Make sure you reserve the sauna in due time.||||We would recommend Hotel Diego de Almagro to anyone who likes a good nights’ sleep in a...

We stayed here for 6 days in November, 2015, during the off-season. Half price deal for the entire stay, so the rate was quite good. Located 1 block away from beach Playa Brava, good beach access but really no beach view. The better beach in Iquique is Playa Cavancha, north of the small peninsula. The hotel is located right next to the university in Iquique, so there are lots of really low cost food option intended for students. We were on foot, so we found a good range of restaurants and services within walking distance of the hotel. The Playa Cavancha area is much nicer, but costs more and is still readily accessible from this hotel. The breakfast buffet was better than average, but not fantastic either. The food quality in the restaurant for dinner was surprisingly excellent, with very reasonable prices. There were lots of business guests, so this appears to be a good business stay...

Rooms are good, good locations. In theory nothing wrong with the hotel but it does miss something. What I think is important. A nice bar or restaurant to eat something or just relax with a pisco sour. The current restaurant feels like a restaurant in the 80 of Eastern Europe. So not couzy, not place you want to be or eat ect. ||I believe if you have somewhere I nice room where you can have drink and eat something small or just drink a pisco sour and read near a fireplace etc it will increase the overall income and make it...