Finca Hotel La Tata Premium — Hotel in Montenegro

Overall, this is a beautiful place. The main building has about 5 (I think) rooms, plus eating area and several sitting/relaxing areas. There is a lovely deck and pool area. The views are phenomenal and you probably can't find a better place to relax with family / friends. I would probably return for the view/ambience. There was so much room for the kids to run around, the landscaping was just gorgeous. Its in a great spot, close to many attractions, and they can get a taxi for you in a second. There were some cons to me, however. This is definitely a business, you do not get a family-owned feel (not important to everyone - I had just come from a family-owned finca, so this was more noticeable to me). The staff is nice, but I just wasn't as warmly welcomed as I had been in other fincas, and they also didn't take ownership of some basic issues we had. For example, I woke up to find that (presumably) our hot water wasn't turned on (when we turned the hot water knob, no water at all came out) - but I could not get anyone to agree to come to my room to look at the problem, and the only answer I got was that "our water is heated by the sun but because its morning and we haven't had any sun, we don't have hot water." I have no idea if this was correct (and I'd like to think not!), but it seems not, because they decided to move us to the room next door, which had hot water. This was a frustrating experience. Because there are four of us, we had one of the suites which are not in the main building, but behind it - so we did not have a view of the lake, but rather, the grounds behind the main building. The suites are large with plenty of space, and pretty decor, but if a view is important, make sure to ask for a room in the main building. The pool is absolutely gorgeous, but as has been our experience elsewhere, COLD - pools are generally not heated because of the cost, and, at least in November, there just wasn't enough sun to heat the water - so unfortunately, the pool was left unused (to the disappointment of my kids). They only allow the hottub to be used from 6-10 at night - the problem with this schedule is that it took about 2 hours to heat the tub up, and they wouldn't even start to heat it until 6, so in reality, you could only use the hot tub from 8-10 at night. I found this policy to be frustrating. Breakfast was standard Colombian (eggs, fruit, juice, arepa) - plentiful and fruit was really fresh, but when I asked for coffee, they heated old coffee up in the microwave (I had hoped for better in the coffee region!) So all in all, there were some frustrations, BUT, really, the main building is so gorgeous and views amazing, with great spots to relax, so I would recommend this finca for the...

We booked this hotel via our travel agent as part of a tour to Colombia. We chose it ourselves and the agency kindly agreed to book it on our behalf as it wasn’t on their preferred suppliers list. Given our experience we can understand why.||||We arrived on a short flight from Medellin and were driven to the hotel by the local representative from our travel agency. On arrival the hotel looked nice and the grounds were pretty so we were happy with the choice. We started getting our bags out of the car when a woman came out of the kitchen and started discussing something in Spanish with the agent. ||||After a short time the agent explained that the hotel had cancelled our booking. They gave the reason as being that they could only take family groups due to COVID. Note: we were a couple not a family and there were no such restrictions at any other hotel we stayed at so this was clearly a lie. The agent had paid 5 days before our arrival to secure the room and the hotel had never advised the agent of the cancellation.||||The hotel advised that they had moved our booking to their sister property, Hotel Campestre La Tata in Montenegro, 45 minutes away. This was a cheap tatty tourist resort complex. We instantly knew we had been taken for a ride. The place had no charm and was quite frankly vile. We were shown two rooms. They were disgusting. One had dead flies all over the bathroom sink. Neither had been cleaned in an eternity. The wiring was loose, windows and doors had plastic panels and the condition of the walls and furniture was simply awful. We refused to stay there.||||Our agent ended up having to try and find an alternative herself which was a challenge as this was a peak holiday period. The Tata owners apparently couldn’t care less at this point and offered us nothing as they already had our money. We ended up staying at a small Finca which was ok but certainly would not have been somewhere we would have chosen ourselves so this put a cloud over our stay in the area.||||Given the challenges within the travel industry at present we were shocked by the treatment we received at the hands of the owners of this property. We suspect they sold our room to locals and as we were foreigners felt they could shaft us.||||If you are thinking of staying here, we would advise you to avoid it as the owners are dishonest and you have no guarantee of a room even if you...

La Tata has the most beautiful view from the pool side but the house is situated in a large plantation style ranch. You can walk the grounds and will have view from everywhere. We stayed in the family cabin in the front of the house but took morning walks and hung out by the pool to enjoy the views.||We were greeted by Yefry on arrival. We were the only ones there at the time. Room was pleasant, very clean and very spacious. There is a small fridge with a few items for purchase.||Viviana is in charge of the kitchen and housekeeping. You can place your order for dinner and she will give you a time that it will be ready for you to come and dine. Food was great, everyday we ordered something different and she was fantastic at preparing everything. Breakfast was great as well, fresh OJ, fresh fruits and eggs however you want them.||We spent 5 days at the La Tata. The house is pretty much in the middle of nowhere so you will need to hire a driver for the days you are there. I emailed the hotel before our stay and Orley as at the airport to pick us up and he also drove us to all the places we visited. Very professional and conscientious driver.||We visited, Parque del café on our 2nd day. We visited Recuca coffee planation, highly recommend, great time there. We visited the botanical garden and butterfly sanctuary; very nice time, the kids loves it. We went to Valle del Cocora, a must!!! and on the way back Orley took us to Salento, a must as well!!! all beautiful places. I have a 6 and 17 year old and they both enjoyed all of the places.||overall a 5!!!||Again the staff at the house is great, couldn't be better in my opinion. They really made our stay a...