Hostal tchapur — Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama

This place is great if you´re planning to spend most of the time on tours to the desert or other surroundings. It´s pretty basic, but the beds are really comfy and guarantee a good nights sleep. Our experiences with the warm water were pretty mixed, I myself had bad luck with it. The people working there are really nice, forthcoming and welcoming. We had a lot of trouble with our planning of the tours due to a national strike on the airports, but the staff did a really good job on last-minute booking our trips. And they even invited us to their Christmas Eve´s BBQ and it was a lot of fun with really tasty, home-made food. A bed-side light would´ve been nice, but since we were really tired from the day´s trips we didn´t get a lot of night-time reading done. For someone who does´t need many extras this is a good place to crash. The hostel has it´s own dog, too, a really friendly one at that. He is named after the hostel; Tchapur means "fox" in the...

Though it's a bit of a walk out of town we really liked this place and ended up staying a week. ||We got a private room to ourselves for cheap in comparison to other hostels in town. The bathrooms were really clean, the beds comfortable and enough blankets to keep us warm. The new people who run it are delightful, so sweet and eager to help any way they can. ||There were only 2 issues when we were there, the internet stopped working so they did a temporary fix with one of those stick internets until they could get the modem up and running again (not sure if they've done it yet or not). ||And the hot water was really hot but when it was windy the pilot light that heated the water blew out and you needed to start the shower several times before it would come back. ||Again they're eager to fix the problems and I'm sure...

Overall, it was a pretty good value for the price. The staff were friendly and helpful, the place was reasonably clean, and the main part of the town was only a 10-minute walk away. There were several downsides, however. First, we showed up and the room looked like it was being stayed in by someone else. They removed the stuff immediately, but it was not the best way to feel welcome. Also, it was really cold and there was no central heat. There was only water during the day and not after 8pm (though they say this is true everywhere in San Pedro). Lastly, the place gets pretty noisy and the noise carries almost perfectly...