La Casa del Kurupira hostal — Hotel in Leticia

My girlfriend and I stayed here for two nights while exploring the Amazon. The hostel is spacious, regularly cleaned and maintained, is environmentally friendly and health conscious; it has a good family and some of the staffs are nice and accommodating. Wifi is not very consistent as expected inside the Amazon region. With that said, there are a few things that I want to bring out.||||1. In one occasion, a male staff repeatedly asked and guessed about my girlfriend's age while she was alone cooking in the kitchen, my girlfriend mentioned multiple times that she does not want to reveal her age and the situation made her fell uncomfortable, and finally the staff asked if I am her boyfriend or just friend. Perhaps it was due to language barrier as my girlfriend only speaks English not Spanish. I only found out about this incidence after we left Leticia, otherwise I would had mentioned it to the management directly.||||2. Before we checked-in, I repeatedly asked in Spanish about the total price for two people for two nights, but at the end the quoted price was for a single night. I ended up paying double the price that I initially thought I needed to pay, which was the most expensive stay throughout my 1.5 months of travel in Peru and Amazon. I genuinely hope this was a miscommunication perhaps due to language proficiency. ||||3. We got questioned from the owner to other guests throughout about where we are or our parents are from, some tried to just point the finger at us and blendly guessed before they even asked about our names and alike. It seems like one convenient and innocent question to start a conversation, but it does add up after months of travelling in South America. Instead of just trying to identifying us based on our visual characteristics (we are both Chinese) out of your curiosity, I encourage you all to genuinely learning who we are as individuals or our purpose in the...

My girlfriend and I stayed here for two nights while exploring the Amazon. The hostel is spacious, regularly cleaned and maintained, is environmentally friendly and health conscious; it has a good family and some of the staffs are nice and accommodating. Wifi is not very consistent as expected inside the Amazon region. With that said, there are a few things that I want to bring out.

In one occasion, a male staff repeatedly asked and guessed about my girlfriend's age while she was alone cooking in the kitchen, my girlfriend mentioned multiple times that she does not want to reveal her age and the situation made her fell uncomfortable, and finally the staff asked if I am her boyfriend or just friend. Perhaps it was due to language barrier as my girlfriend only speaks English not Spanish. I only found out about this incidence after we left Leticia, otherwise I would had mentioned it to the management directly.

Before we checked-in, I repeatedly asked in Spanish about the total price for two people for two nights, but at the end the quoted price was for a single night. I ended up paying double the price that I initially thought I needed to pay, which was the most expensive stay throughout my 1.5 months of travel in Peru and Amazon. I genuinely hope this was a miscommunication perhaps due to language proficiency.

We got questioned from the owner to other guests throughout about where we are or our parents are from, some tried to just point the finger at us and blendly guessed before they even asked about our names and alike. It seems like one convenient and innocent question to start a conversation, but it does add up after months of travelling in South America. Instead of just trying to identifying us based on our visual characteristics (we are both Chinese) out of your curiosity, I encourage you all to genuinely learning who we are as individuals or our purpose in the...

El hostal en general es bueno por que tiene cocina, terraza, las habitaciones tienen suficiente espacio, tienen área de lavado a mano en caso de que desees hacerlo por ti mismo y cuentan también con servicio de lavandería. El servicio de lavandería es de 20.000 cop por una bolsa de aproximadamente dos kilos, al pedir el servicio en recepción me indican que si se entrega por la mañana (lo cual hice) estará lista en la tarde. Hasta aquí todo bien...||En mi caso personal puesto que entre la ropa masculina que entregue había algunas prendas delicadas, le solicité a la chica en recepción que si aún no habían puesto a secar la misma en la máquina ésta fuese expuesta al aire en ganchos y el resto podría ser secada común y corriente, en caso contrario todo podía ir a la secadora y no había malestar alguno. ||Nosotros salíamos al día siguiente de la ciudad y debíamos empacar en la noche para hacer check out temprano en la mañana. El problema fue que en la tarde cuando recibí la ropa estaba totalmente mojada; pese a eso pague lo mencionado, fui a recepción a solicitar ganchos para así colgar en mi cuarto y secar al aire del ventilador, la persona en recepción afirma no tener la cantidad de ganchos para ello y ante la respuesta solicito por segunda vez que sequen toda la ropa.||Salí del lugar y al regresar en la noche la ropa estaba igual, así que sugerí el inconveniente que sería hacer nuestras maletas con la ropa en esa condición.||De nuevo la llevaron a secar y mi esposo que se quedo despierto hasta la madrugada la solicitó y aún así debió poner algunas prendas encima de la cama de nuestra habitación por que seguían húmedas.||Al final...el día siguiente debí solicitarle a un voluntario (front desk sólo) que no estaba al tanto de mi situación que me llevara al área de lavandería y poder tomarla por mi cuenta, un total alivio que después de todo al fin estaba seca.||Esperemos que organicen un poco mejor...