Tikal Backpackers Hostel — Hotel in Flores

Overall a slightly below average personal experience here. It's not a bad hostel really but there were too many annoying factors that added up to make it worth searching for another place. Any couple of these factors in another hostel might be expected. So by themselves they are quite trivial and may bother others less, so its probably just fine for other folks.

My first annoyance was the wifi. I don't know why everyone says that the wifi works great. It was always super slow and took me forever to connect my devices. And that happened every time I opened my laptop, it took me like 10 to 15 minutes to get a connection and was never able to do WiFi calling. It wasn't just operator error either, it was an issue for other guests as well.

The staff can be a bit terse but eventually open up. When I arrived the toilet paper was out, no soap in the bathroom and the bin was full. It was better over the next two days. So I guess it's hit or miss. In general I think I arrived at a bad time, but it happens.

The common spaces were pretty nice and good places to hang out and do planning (if you get the internet working). I stayed in the 9 bed dorm with aircon that was turned on during the night. It was pretty cramped in there and when the air on cut out during the night it started to get quite hot. The aircon was turned off during the middle of every night that I stayed there. If you go to bother the front desk they'll turn it back on but it's quite an annoyance. I would be fine with this if they advertised the aircon in the room as is. But they say it's on from 9pm to 9am and then turn it off in the middle of every night, that's just dishonest.

It was too expensive to eat at the restaurant on a tight budget so I can't speak on that but other guests seemed happy with it. The happy hour drink specials on the daiquiris are great though.

Also keep in mind there is no kitchen here and food is expensive here if you are on a tight budget so that makes it extra expensive to stay here (the small market on the west end of the island is a good place for cheapish prepared food). They have laundry service here but also it's cheaper to do it elsewhere. There is not place to fill up on potable water here but if you ask the front they will fill up a...

Amazing hostel situated right in the heart of the small island of Flores, great location, local shops, stores, ATM's markets are a short stroll away, beds were very nice, they were 3 beds high little tough to get up onto them, air conditioning was confusing because one night we didn't have any in the room or very little, and one night it was just blasting cold air so watch out for that, comes with showers, a bar on the roof of the hostel, only problem it doesn't have a kitchen you can cook your own food, and the food they offer is a little more expensive in my opinion, but not to worry there were small restaurants and street food around and on the bridge connecting back to the main land. 8/10 would recommend to anyone wanting to stay in Flores and check the place out, the staff were great and very helpful with getting tours and transportation to the Mayan ruins of Tikal! Which is a must if you...

Das Café Yaxha in Flores hat sich die 5 Punkte Bewertung redlich verdient. Auch unter Absprache mit anderen Gästen, welche vor dem Aufenthalt in dem Café Yaxha in anderen (um Dimensionen teureren Hotels) gewohnt haben, ist der Unterschied zu teureren Hotels kaum oder gar nicht merklich. Die Zimmer sind immer sauber und ausreichend geräumig und werden alle 2 Tage oder nach Absprache gereinigt. Das Personal ist immer(!) freundlich und für einen kleinen Plausch in Englisch oder Spanisch, oder eine Partie Dame bereit. Die Mahlzeiten aus der Küche des Cafés sind sehr lecker und schaden auch der Brieftasche nicht besonders. (Nach einem einmonatigen Aufenthalt in dem Café kann ich tatsächlich von fast allen Mahlzeiten reden) Als Gast im Hotel kann man auch die Restaurant Küche mitbenutzen unter der fürsorglichen Beratung von der mütterlichen Köchin. Ab und an kann man, natürlich kostenlos, interessante Vorträge über die Archäologie der Mayas besuchen, die von dem deutschen Mitinhaber und Archäologien Dieter Richter gehalten werden. Diese sind immer informativ aber auch locker und witzig gehalten. Auch eine Besichtigung der Ausgrabungsstätten Tikal und Yaxha in der Umgebung unter der Leitung Herrn Richters sind für kleines Geld möglich. Insgesamt hat das Café Yaxha eine sehr lockeres und familiäres Flair und ich fühlte mich zu jedem Zeitpunkt unglaublich wohl. Die Sprachschule "Dos Mundos" die etwa 2 Minuten per Fuß entfernt von dem Café ist, gehört zu den selben Leuten wie das Café und wird in der Skybar abgehalten. Diese ist auf einer Dachterrasse mit überwältigendem Blick auf den See den Flores umgibt. Morgens bis Mittags findet dort die Schule statt, wo man mit einem Cafe und ein paar Stunden Spanisch Unterricht den Tag starten kann. Abends kann man den Blick bei einem Mojito oder/und einem sehr, sehr leckeren Abendessen genießen. Der Sky-Hamburger ist zu meinem persönlichen Lieblingsgericht geworden, mit allem was man sich auf einem Burger vorstellen kann ist er tatsächlich höher als breit. ||Viel Erfolg bei kommenden...