Hotel Med Estadio — Hotel in Medellín

Super noisy and No hot water most of the time. Caution: Rooms on the front of the hotel are bombarded with club music from the gym across the street from 5am till past 10pm music 🎶 🥁 . In addition there is this constant ear piercing beeping from the gym 🚨 . The windows and walls are paper thin. You could hear people talking and wake up alarms all morning. Towels are threadbare and stained. Only one towel per person, had to argue for additional towel to not slip on tile floor. Moved from deluxe room to interior room to avoid noice was told those rooms don’t include sheets. Again had to argue to get sheets. Lock was not secure. Could wiggle knob and open door without key 😮. Hotel had tiny ants 🐜. Hotel does not look as good as pictures furniture is worn or beat up. Room only had one electric outlet that was so worn out I had to hold pug in with chair. Not sure how this hotel has a 4 star review. Beware....

I've been traveling to Medellin almost every year for the last 16 years, and this is currently my favorite hotel. Especially for the price. It has all the amenities a foreign tourist would need, including copious hot water, air conditioning, a small table and chair in the room, modern new construction, and breakfast. It's a block from the Stadium, which is where I go running in circles along with in line skaters, etc. There are also aerobics classes outside, soccer games, etc. There is an Exito nearby and a Metro station on the other side of the Stadium. The neighborhood is a lot quieter than downtown, where I've normally stayed. The downtown area around Parque Botero and Parque Berrio is supposedly more dangerous now, which I am oblivious to, and I expect to be staying at the Hotel Med Estadio on my next trip to...

Hotel staff did not speak English but were generally helpful. Breakfast was good (not great), rooms were clean and had nice tiles. However, the windows couldn’t properly close so it got noisy in the morning when traffic picked up. Not the greatest location either (near the stadium if you want to experience South American football) - would recommend staying near Lleras...