Park Plaza Apart Hotel — Hotel in Santiago

TL:DR Excellent location, safe lodging, walking distance to lots of sights and restaurants, excellent receptionists.||But the devil is in the details.|The bathroom: excellent water pressure in the evening, pretty bad in the morning. The bathroom needs hooks for clothes, a toilet brush, a bath tub stopper for baths, and better and more plentiful toilet paper. The toilet paper you get melts down to nothing unless layered multiple times. Also, the light fixture is awful, you can't get light on your face in the mirror. Do with that what you will. Ah, and the kicker: the fixture hangs off the ceiling and is held tight by a wad of folded toilet paper. Classy.||Half of the light switches lead nowhere and light nothing.||The kitchen has the barest minimum of dishes, cutlery, and paper towels (those are also very thin and turn to nothing when wet). If you want to cook, you won't have anything to do it with - no cutting boards, no spatulas, no colanders, you get my drift. And washing dishes is also a problem as there is nothing provided. I suppose the hotel expects us to wash the dishes with our bare hands.||The living room is nice, it leads to a full-size balcony. But in winter, the lower level is noticeably colder than the upper level, and in winter that means you would have to wear your outside clothes indoors on the lower level. The furniture isn't comfortable.||The bedroom is warmer, but the bed is kind of problematic. The sheets are too short and will pop out from under the mattress at the head and foot level simultaneously. The blankets haven't been washed in ages. I found hair of different colors and lengths stuck in the blankets. The sheets used to separate you from the blankets are also too short, and you end up touching the dirty blankets and jolting awake from disgust. There are 4 pillows given, and all are the same fat thickness. My neck will need therapy up on return because sleeping without the pillows and with them was a problem.||The drafty door to the upper level mini balcony was fixed with duct tape.||The staff is super helpful and are the best feature of this hotel.||Get the cleaning service if you can, even if it costs extra. Santiago in winter is dusty; and pollution particles together with the dust will make everything dirty with time, if you are staying longer than a handful of days. I brought brand new blush pink house slippers with me so I would not wear street shoes indoors, and you should see these dirty things now. All that was from walking around the apartment and leaning against furniture and fixtures. That told me everything about how briefly the apartment exists in an acceptably clean state.||I'd suggest you look for different accommodations...

TL:DR Excellent location, safe lodging, walking distance to lots of sights and restaurants, excellent receptionists.

But the devil is in the details. The bathroom: excellent water pressure in the evening, pretty bad in the morning. The bathroom needs hooks for clothes, a toilet brush, a bath tub stopper for baths, and better and more plentiful toilet paper. The toilet paper you get melts down to nothing unless layered multiple times. Also, the light fixture is awful, you can't get light on your face in the mirror. Do with that what you will. Ah, and the kicker: the fixture hangs off the ceiling and is held tight by a wad of folded toilet paper. Classy.

Half of the light switches lead nowhere and light nothing.

The kitchen has the barest minimum of dishes, cutlery, and paper towels (those are also very thin and turn to nothing when wet). If you want to cook, you won't have anything to do it with - no cutting boards, no spatulas, no colanders, you get my drift. And washing dishes is also a problem as there is nothing provided. I suppose the hotel expects us to wash the dishes with our bare hands.

The living room is nice, it leads to a full-size balcony. But in winter, the lower level is noticeably colder than the upper level, and in winter that means you would have to wear your outside clothes indoors on the lower level. The furniture isn't comfortable.

The bedroom is warmer, but the bed is kind of problematic. The sheets are too short and will pop out from under the mattress at the head and foot level simultaneously. The blankets haven't been washed in ages. I found hair of different colors and lengths stuck in the blankets. The sheets used to separate you from the blankets are also too short, and you end up touching the dirty blankets and jolting awake from disgust. There are 4 pillows given, and all are the same fat thickness. My neck will need therapy up on return because sleeping without the pillows and with them was a problem.

The drafty door to the upper level mini balcony was fixed with duct tape.

The staff is super helpful and are the best feature of this hotel.

Get the cleaning service if you can, even if it costs extra. Santiago in winter is dusty; and pollution particles together with the dust will make everything dirty with time, if you are staying longer than a handful of days. I brought brand new blush pink house slippers with me so I would not wear street shoes indoors, and you should see these dirty things now. All that was from walking around the apartment and leaning against furniture and fixtures. That told me everything about how briefly the apartment exists in an acceptably clean state.

I'd suggest you look for different...

This place was great. But most of the pictures are so finely orchestrated that I was misled into thinking that a normal one-bed room was going to be an "apartment hotel" for me and my lady. ||The place was clean. But it had a lack of tables, no real chairs (only one with a back, the others were stools) and some random open space where a table would just make sense! Plus I expected a separate bathroom but what we got was a walk-in connected bathroom with a shower room. ||Also lighting was a little harsh. Either way to bright (no covers) or too dull (not enough lumens). ||Our TV was permanently tilted. The elevator also went like so: Floor 1, 0, 2, 3. Just weird for that part. ||Breakfast was "ok". They deliver it to your refrigerator while you are out, or you can just take it from the employee when he comes by during that time. No menu, you just get a few sandwiches, yogurt, juice, milk, and instant coffee/tea. ||Staff was great in our requests. ||Although I would recommend this place to others, I don't think a single bedroom like the one we had is comfortable enough for what should qualify as an "apartment hotel". A good example of such a location is Lastarria 43-61 Apartments or La Sebastiana Suites. Most likely more expensive, but these types of apartment hotel rooms offer multiple rooms: a kitchen, a living room with couch, counter, chairs and dining table, and a full bathroom. I had too choose between these three places and J chose Park Plaza expecting something along those lines. ||This is why I think if you're going to stay there, go all out and go with the loft option. It is most likely...