Las Magnolias | Hotel Boutique - San Benito — Hotel in San Salvador

My friend and I stayed here on two separate occasions: for one night during the week, and then one night on the following Saturday.||PROS:||- Super safe neighborhood in an excellent location with more food options and shopping than you could ever possibly imagine in any westernized city! |- Pleasant staff (when you can find them)|- Cute courtyard|- Large clean rooms on both of our stays, but the fridge wouldn’t plug in on our first stay … very impressed that staff were super quick to come to the rescue and moved furniture around to make it work!|- Large bathroom in our first room (much smaller in our second), though the water in the shower was only tepid|- Two huge double beds (first room), a massive king and a small twin (second room)|- Beds were sooooo comfortable and the sheets soooo soft — we didn’t want to get up!|- Breakfast (which we had on our second stay only) was very good!||CONS:||- Our room wasn’t ready when we arrived (after 2pm) for the first stay, though we had been told check-in was at 1pm|- There’s a bar next door which was very loud at times|- On both stays, our room was right next to the hotel courtyard — and that was loud too, with other guests coming and going at all hours|- WiFi was spotty — it kept coming and going|- Reception is not 24/7 — we left at 6.30am after the first stay and the reception was dark and all locked up … when we came back the second time, the security guard was the one who had to check us in (and it was only 6pm) as no other...

Ended our a El Salvador road trip in San Salvador. Best decision. This little boutique hotel is perfectly located in a very safe and well established neighbourhood in San Salvador. Steps away from food, shopping, travel clinics, art galleries and easily accessible to local attractions. The front desk will assist you with cabs and ideas for dinner out. The restaurant attached to the boutique is fantastic but we also enjoyed Brutto for roof top views, special drinks and delicious food. We took advantage of EC tours free walking tour and this is a must!! We also did a day trip to Suchitoto, we had our own rental car, but you can also arrange this via the hotel and EC Tours. We checked out the near by El Boquerón National Park and stopped at Picnic Steak house to have some crepes and a good coffee. If you have time, do check out the Parque temático El Principito (little prince theme park, especially if you have kids) and Parque del Bicentenario. the hotel is quiet, with well crafted courtyards and spaces to sit and enjoy the birds and the water fountain. We enjoyed breakfast on the terrace, and our room was well equipped and...

The place is very small (it's a former family house). They promote a gym and it's only a couple of broken old machines inside a shed. Their food didn't look fresh and the portion were single bite size. I requested to use the laundry and the lady in the reception desk told me, "We don't open the laundry on Saturdays, if you need a laundry mat just google it". When I left to look for a laundry mat (Which was 10 miles away) I heard the laundry machines running from the parking lot. I went back inside and asked the receptionist why she told me their laundry room was closed when I could hear the machines running? She said, "I have someone doing the room blankets today because we were short yesterday".|There were sink bugs crawling the wall during the night in the room and I killed several of them. I was planning to stay two nights but I returned my key the following morning and did not come back even though I have already paid for two nights. I don't recommend this hotel to nobody. Their rate is very similar to the Barcelo down the street and their...