Hostal Tulvak Atacama — Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama

Hosts: Reinaldo and Gladys are simply amazing. Extremely helpful in any matter. As friendly as any host can be!

Breakfast: Exquisite! The hosts carefully prepare a healthy, delicious plate with fresh fruits, scrambled eggs, toasts, cheese and provide several types of teas, including coca leafs to ease altitude effects. If you leave before the breakfast starts, the hosts will prepare a snack bag for you to eat before or during the tour.

Cleanliness: Top priority at Tulvak. A+!! In addition to the everyday cleaning work, hosts exchanged towels and linen either daily or every other day, which is absolutely amazing.

Sleeping: Bed, linen and pillows were very comfortable and Reinaldo gladly provided us with an additional blanket.

Shower: hot and cold water with good pressure. It will satisfy people who like boiling and freezing water, too.

Location: very well located. Tulvak is not right on Caracoles, but it is a quick 8-10 min walk away, which is San Pedro, is virtually nothing. It's right next to a few markets and it is also right next to Rota Del Desierto, so you'll either be picked up first (and will be able to choose your seats) or last (and will be able to rest a bit more. On two different tours, we were dropped off at Tulvak, even though the tour was supposed to end at Caracoles, because we were driving right next to it. In addition, we can see Volcan Licancabur from the street.

Air conditioning: it works about half the day (afternoon and early in the evening), due to solar energy battery capacity. AC is not a must in the Atacama night, but it is a good-to-have, because the air is very dry (AC would help!). But this does not dent the quality of...

Hosts: Reinaldo and Gladys are simply amazing. Extremely helpful in any matter. As friendly as any host can be!||Breakfast: Exquisite! The hosts carefully prepare a healthy, delicious plate with fresh fruits, scrambled eggs, toasts, cheese and provide several types of teas, including coca leafs to ease altitude effects. If you leave before the breakfast starts, the hosts will prepare a snack bag for you to eat before or during the tour.||Cleanliness: Top priority at Tulvak. A+!! In addition to the everyday cleaning work, hosts exchanged towels and linen either daily or every other day, which is absolutely amazing.||Sleeping: Bed, linen and pillows were very comfortable and Reinaldo gladly provided us with an additional blanket.||Shower: hot and cold water with good pressure. It will satisfy people who like boiling and freezing water, too.||Location: very well located. Tulvak is not right on Caracoles, but it is a quick 8-10 min walk away, which is San Pedro, is virtually nothing. It's right next to a few markets and it is also right next to Rota Del Desierto, so you'll either be picked up first (and will be able to choose your seats) or last (and will be able to rest a bit more. On two different tours, we were dropped off at Tulvak, even though the tour was supposed to end at Caracoles, because we were driving right next to it. In addition, we can see Volcan Licancabur from the street.||Air conditioning: it works about half the day (afternoon and early in the evening), due to solar energy battery capacity. AC is not a must in the Atacama night, but it is a good-to-have, because the air is very dry (AC would help!). But this does not dent the quality of...

Hostal Tulvak is fantastic. We stayed for eight nights and it was the perfect home base to explore Atacama. The location was great, everything was clean and comfortable, and Reynaldo and Gladys made us feel at home. They cooked us breakfast each morning and even made up our room every day, which felt like such a luxury during a longer stay.

Most importantly, we’re incredibly grateful to Reynaldo for helping us rescue our rental car out of the desert after we got stuck in the sand. He jumped in his truck at night without hesitation and towed us out with a rope, which honestly saved us. And he was kind and gracious the whole time.

If we come back to the Atacama, we’d stay here again in a heartbeat....