Hotel Conquistadores — Hotel in Medellín

The hotel is centrally located and mainly Colombian families and businessmen stay there. Perhaps because it's cheap. In fact, it was the cheapest place I stayed during my entire Colombia trip.||||Due to it's central location you should be careful at night. During day it's safe, but during night. Don't walk alone around, use central and bright streets and don't carry more than 50 thousand pesos. Most store accepts credit cards and can call you a taxi back to the hotel. You won't be injured but robberies are on a daily basis, despite police presence. If you get in such a situation give them your cash and they let you go.||||When you try to get there give the taxi driver the address. Most drivers get confused by the name, as it is a neighbourhood on the other side of the river.||||My stay:||---||The staff was friendly and gave me a map, a booklet and helpful sightseeing information during arrival. The first night I got a room on the street and although I live in the city and I'm used to noise I required ear protection to get some sleep. The windows just have one layer. The next day I asked to change which was no problem,||||The far bigger problem is the mattress. Actually "collection of springs covered by a blanked" would rather be the correct term. Don't know if it's the age, but I had to put a lot of clothes in between to avoid back pain the next morning.||||Pros/Cons:||---||+ Cheap!!!||+ Free WIFI||+ Helpful Staff (despite language barriers)||+ Free Coffee||||- Rooms towards the street are loud||- Terrible mattresses||- Taxi required at night||- Don't speak English||||Summary:||---||Sleep quality is poor. But I give an additional point, because of the...

Good stay, very bad ending. Explanation below.

friendly staff (until there is an issue) cheap price for private/double bed shower was warm fan, tv, towel & soap included walking distance from metro station room is cleaned daily if requested

dodgy neighbourhood after dark staff does not speak English wifi did not work in my room room 302 did not have a shower head building is generally run down. Good enough if you’re in a budget, too bad if you’re fancy. lots of traffic noise (I didn’t care but for those who think you can find peace and quiet in Colombian jajaja)

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I was satisfied with my stay until I asked them to do my laundry. 1. Nearly 30k is too expensive 2. A shirt went missing. I was more upset over the fact how poorly they responded to the situation than missing the actual shirt. The cleaning lady denied she ever saw it and gaslit me as if I must be mistaken. Upon arrival ALL my clothes were dirty so I made sure EVERYTHING went to the laundry. Then I asked the receptionist for a compensation through Google translate and before she even finished reading she was already shaking her head and then gave me a defensive attitude. The least they could have done is to express compassion for a missing item, let alone looking for a solution. Would have stayed again if it wasn’t for this poor performance of customer service. Go at...

Stayed here for quite a while in April of 2017. Room #406. I paid 36,000 pesos per night. Clean, insect free room. Private bath with walk-in shower that was missing a shower head. It was like standing under a hose but hey! There was plenty of hot water. Fan, small desk, flat screen TV (no English stations) window out to central area. Bed was less than comfortable. Time to think about new bedding in this place.||||Very quiet at night. No problems at all with that issue. Staff was excellent. Very accommodating and helpful. Some English spoken but being able to speak Spanish helps here. I had my laundry done here. Same day service cost me 8,000 pesos. Hotel is secure. No issues with anything in that regard. WIFI was adequate but not blazing. Front desk printed 3 documents for me gratis.||||Neighborhood is a commercial district. Lots of stores, traffic and noise which might be an issue if your room is on the street which mine was not so I heard NADA. For $14 a night I've done a lot worse in the past. If I roll through Medellin again then Conquistadores would be...