Hotel bam-bu restobar — Hotel in Muisne

We traveled to Mompiche to see another hotel, but they were closed, we had traveled by bus to Mompiche for about 8 hours and arrived just after dark. The streets of Mompiche or should I say street was busy, with vendors making empanadas and selling various foods. The place smelled of fried foods and ocean air, with a touch of bus fumes. we stood there tired and surrounded by luggage, well a couple bags and little else. A taxi offered to take us to our hotel of choice, for a dollar. That hotel was closed for repair after the recent earthquakes and recommended a couple others, one of them was Bam-Bu. We walked back to the main street and a wanderer directed us to the hotel. he said follow the main road until you get to the ocean, turn right and the hotel will be on the right or turn right on the next street and the hotel will be on the left. So we drug ourselves down the occasionally lit street to find the hotel on the left. We walked up to the front desk, there was no closed front door because there was no door. The proprietor asked if we needed a room and for how many nights. We were to tired to be negotiators so we just said yes and got a room for 2 nights, total 80 dollars. He filled out a line in a spiral notebook with our names and passport number and headed toward the stairs. leading us upstairs I asked if we had a room key. He said it was in the door and he would show us. We wondered what we had gotten into. Up the stairs we went and around the corner to the ocean side, he said it was low tide and high tide was going to be around 730 am. We really didn't care, the bus had wore us out. And we were hungry, so we wanted to throw our bags down and go eat. when we got around the corner past a table and chairs with five guys drinking beer and an empty hammock, a couple was sitting on a single bed doing their best to kill a fifth of rum. Oh boy i thought my wife is going to kill me when we are alone. The room key was stuck in a padlock which was on a metal slide, a metal fish completed the key ring. The door was open a sign that the room was unoccupied. My wife went in and found the bathroom while I dropped the bags. I found the light switch and saw a bunk bed, double on the bottom and another single bed that looked perfect for the rest of our stuff. The floor was wood and the walls were bamboo. Then I turned around. No curtains on the windows, just some panels of glass, Oh boy my wife will freak about this! but out the window, just past the 8 foot porch was the ocean. waves gently washed up and back, it was quiet. peaceful. We were told the tourist season hadn't hit yet. the beds were covered with a sheet and light blanket, it was about 80 degrees so we didn't need any more than that. I pulled the blanket halfway down from the top bunk and created a curtain. We locked the door and went to eat. When we got to the foyer on the bottom floor we found that the 3 feet of tile surrounding the bar and front desk were the only real floor, the rest was sand. We shuffled across the sand and through the ocean front gate, found a place to eat and came back dropped into a deep sleep, ocean waves drifting through the windows. Dawn came a 6 and the waves sounded a lot louder. We walked out our room door to look down at the seawall, which was about 30 feet away and 20 feet down and there was the ocean, lapping at the sea wall. Breathtaking. We wandered around town for a couple days before hopping the bus. During that time we enjoyed the ocean views, slow pace and hot water, one of the three hotels that had reliable hot water. I have pictures to prove most of this otherwise i wouldn't...

We were desperate to get a place in Mompiche. The house we rented went down with last year's earthquake and we didn't know it until the day before check in! My daughter found Bam-Bu online, called the owner who spoke excellent English and we booked a room for 3 nights.||||The rooms are just above the first floor restaurant/bar, so nights were very noisy until about 2am-ish. Rooms are also not very clean, and are not cleaned during stay. I decided that this was part of the beachy scene, and would have been ok if these were the only issues.||||The owner/manger (Marco) was friendly for the first few hours we arrived. After we paid and were settled into out room... Marco seemed either not to be found, avoided us, or --when I could catch his attention-- was short and annoyed. As the days progressed it was clear that we were on our own and guest services was not part of the package. And I'm a very low maintenance traveller...||||I won't detail the ways we were lied to and financially taken advantage of... if you want to know I'll respond to questions. The final straw was when we were leaving the hotel for our taxi at 9am, Marco mysteriously appeared from his room (early for him to be around) and asked one of the waitress to charge us for our breakfasts and every coffee we had with our breakfasts. I couldn't believe it! What made it worse was that the coffee was terrible--- very, very weak-- but we drank it because we thought it was part of the breakfast?! I asked to speak with Marco. He told me that the waitresses get all the breakfast and coffee $-- really?!-- and that he is "running a restaurant." Hmm-- I thought he was running a hostel/hotel as well?||||In the end, I changed my rating from terrible to poor because the rooms are large and the place is right on the beach. ||||If we travel to Mompiche again, I heard good things about La Facha Hostel and...

My boyfriend and I stayed here for 1 night and of course Mompiche is amazing and this special bamboo building is also really nice. It is one of the more trendy places in Mompiche. ||We stayed really nice over here, the room is very clean and nice. We had a nice room with seaview (you should take the room on the second floor with seaview, it also has a nice hammok in front of it)||||One of the things we definitely didn't like was the service in the restaurant. One of the girls working there didn't pay attention to us at all. ||||Bad service in the restaurant, but as a hostel...