Hotel Sol y Luna Capurganá — Hotel in Acandí

An hotel to avoid. Unfortunately is diffcult to book a hotel in advance in Capurgana via internet (no booking facilities, very few reviews etc.). We stayed here 3 nights:||||PRO||- The garden is nice. It may be a nice accomodation if renewed but current status is poor||||CONS||- Capurgana is a small town but this place is pretty away from the village. It's a 15min walk on a difficult unpaved road. Nearly impossible to walk by night to the village (and you need a torch)||- There is only a poor guy servicing in the hotel doing everything, from cleaning to cooking||- Pretty expansive also for European standards due to the hefty commission that the owner takes. We investigated and discovered that the hotel is owned by a lady living in Bogota (Laura) but managed by a guy (Omar) who pays a rent to her. The lady take the reservations via the website and applies a hefty 40% fee||- They overbooked and gave us 2 rooms which we discovered were destinated to the staff. Very dirty with no lights. We managed to get a large "normal" room only because the email from the owner said "room with seaview" which the 2 staff-rooms clearly had not. For complaints speak with Omar (he at least tries to accomodate you the best that he can), Laura only interested in money||- Food is poor. Avoid to pay the dinner in advance and go dining in Capurgana. Cheaper and better||||If you have no other choice than to stay here, make sure you pay the minimum in advance (no dinner, no tickets for the boat to Turbo, no excursions). If you pay the excursions / boat here at the hotel you will overpay as they'll take a commission. Go and buy your excursions in...

Stayed here 3 nights in Jan 2012 while travelling with a group of friends.||Avoid this hostel. All the other guests that were staying here were as disappointed as us. The problem is that if you want to book a hotel in Capurgana from abroad, this is one of the few that you actually can manage to book. Once there, we discovered that the agency that booked it for us had charged a 100% mark up on the price of the rooms. The other hostels of same quality in Capurgana cost a third of this one.||This hotel looks nice in the photos but in reality it is falling into pieces. ||Terrible location. It is in front of the sea but the beach is disgusting so you have to walk 20 mins back to the town centre and then either go to the beach next to the port (not great) or take a boat and go to one of the other mediocre playas of the area.||The Sol Y Luna has no hot water and electricity works randomly so you definitely need to bring a lamp with you as you will need it to reach your room and walk back home at night or just to go to the bathroom.||The rooms are old, dirty and full of beds (we had a room with 5 beds + 1 double).||The guy who looks after the hotel is actually nice and helpful. He cooks breakfast in the morning and dinner in the evening, both served in the terrace on the top floor, which is not too bad.||This hotel is heavily overpriced, avoid it. I would avoid Capurgana in general to be honest, don't be fooled by the description in the Lonely Planet. Even if you go to La Miel in Panama (small, crowded but white sand beach), you will not enjoy the sea as it...

Partner: eight months travel in Central and South America, this was the worst lodging experience ever. ||||Me: We were forced to take a room there and paid more than it was worth. It was Easter week and we did not have reservations. Beware of that for any town in Colombia. The room was OK but the roof was ready to blow off. The owner, who was there temporarily, is erratic and after trying to charge us for another night that we did not owe, told us we had to move to another room due to a reservation that specified our room. The food was horrible and only served when everyone showed up, some folks were very late. Fish for every dinner. Later we found out that you could special order chicken. The staff...