Hostal Recreo — Hotel in Viña del Mar

I believe 3 brothers own and manage the property. I stayed in this upscale Vina neighborhood because it was only two blocks from the family hosting my son studying abroad. I was somewhat hesitant of staying at a "hostel." At 50, I thought I was too old for a hostel. Wrong on that account. There are rooms for students. I met a young man in his second year of medical school. There are bigger hotel-style rooms, in which I stayed. The queen-sized bed was just as comfortable as home. Yay! The common room for breakfast, also has a TV and the students hang out there at night to study. I became a student as well. The owner used to teach photography and at breakfast one morning, he even taught me how to use my newer Sony DSRL camera, which I've been meaning to learn for 2 years. MUCHO Gracias. ||||They don't know much English here, but with patience on both sides, and a little help from Google Translate, I soon forgot we were both speaking broken Spanish/English.||||Breakfast is a massive continental style with bread, muffins, ham, cheeses, butter, granola, coffee, tea, milk, jam, hard boiled eggs...||||There are four downsides, three of which are easily overcome.||1. Dog barking - they bark in the evening and morning, but seem to be asleep when you are.||2. Internet - It comes from their local cable company and is blazing fast. The wifi connected to it seem to disconnect. The router should be checked out. An easy workaround is going to the hallway and unplugging it for 10 seconds (If a techie stays there and speaks Spanish, please help Patricio to move the WiFi channel from 7 to 9 so it's not interfered with by the rest of the routers in the neighborhood. Also configure the correct DNS server. I could have helped him, but my Spanish was not good enough).||3. Hot water - I was hot and cold and hot. They have some new instant-on water heaters. I think the problem was me actually trying to save water. Every time I turned the water off, the water heater turned off. I should have just left the water on.||4. No elevator. Think Europe. This place is not handicap accessible,...

It s in recreo at the end of vina at the biginning of valparaiso the metro is a few steps, bus stop also, you can even walk in the awesome promenade! Excellent location! The host Patricio is helpful and will give you any advice? He picked me up at the recrep station, he will tell you the must see in Vina e Valaraiso, he will help u in transportation. The room is tiny but super clean and brend new, the bathroom tiny but new and all you need. No noise except two bloody dogs sometimes make noise in the neighborhood, the only cons that he won't give you the key of the hostel so u need to ring the bell but is available 24-7, well this kind of things that I would change, even if u can ring the bell 24/7 I mean you re not 100 per cent free. But trust me at the end is super good option on the very expensive vina del||Mat accomodation, vina is expensive and this place is a champion on quality and price! The kindness of Patricio will make it up the lack of the key! This is the place...

My girlfriend and I stayed in hostal recreo for six nights after originally only planning on two, our Spanish is beyond terrible and the sweet lady who runs the hostel made us feel as if it wasn't a problem! Recreo is in an amazing quite and central location only a 5-10 minute ride by any passing bus for less than 500 pesos(about 70 cents us) to Veña del mar for amazing food or Valparaiso for great nightlife, walking and cafes! The hostal rooms itself were very clean, quite and the comfiest bed I slept on during our 3 month South America trip, absolutely recommend this Hostal to anyone passing through...