Hotel & Residencia del Sol — Hotel in Guatemala City

Rooms are basic but clean, no wifi at the hotel but the restaurant a few doors down has some, the food was good. They could really use a kitchen for the budget travelers. The roof top has potential but I think someone is living up there right now. ||||No one, I mean no one in Nebaj speaks English, be warned. It makes for an excellent place to study Spanish and I did book a private lesson with the hotel at the restaurant. Domingo was my teacher and he was very good. Gracias Domingo por todo! ||||The info centre also sets up tours for provides free maps for want to go on there own. Hiking around is easy and beautiful, bring sunblock. ||||Nebaj was unique place in my Guatemala travel experience. The people here, mostly the Ixil ethnic group of the Mayan people, suffered greatly during the civil war that ended in the 1990's. Almost every women and girl were rapped, and every man tortured. Hundreds of the villages in the area were completely exterminated. Some people here believe that white western countries were involved in these atrocities. Keep this in mind when travelling to the area, as you may not always feel the warmest welcome from some of the older people. ||||That being said, all the people I interacted with were friendly and kind. ||||Ixil words. hello = oots a wash, thank you = mee-tee-owsh, good bye = quan-cheek||||that was always good...

Listed first under lodging for Nebaj and called the town's "spiffiest" hostel by Lonely Planet, we decided to give it a try. There were three of us on a motorcycle trip and we only had enough time for one night in Nebaj. We checked in at El Descanso and were brought to our room in the hostel down the street. Most of the rooms are on the second floor, where there are two bathrooms, a couple comfy chairs and a small TV (no idea if it works). ||||We were given the only room on the first floor, and they actually let us drive the motorcycles into the building and park them in the hallway next to the room! Our room had two sets of bunk beds, a bare linoleum floor and a large table. My bed was hard as a rock but they gave us tons of wool blankets, which was much appreciated as it can get very cold at night in Nebaj. Our room was right next to a lawyer's office, and there was a door connecting the two that didn't quite reach high enough, so from the top you could actually look into his office through a large gap. On the other side of our room appeared to be a family's home. A very odd set up, but it worked. The bathrooms were pretty clean though I didn't test the showers. There is no wifi in the rooms, only in El Descano down the street, where we had dinner. I wouldn't exactly call this hostel spiffy but there aren't many options in Nebaj, and you can't...

This hostel is associated with El Desconso a block down the street - where you check in. It consists of two dorm rooms (at Q35/person = $5) and a couple of private rooms (at Q45/person = $6). All rooms share two bathrooms with instant-on "warm showers" (though one was not working when we were there). The beds are reasonably comfortable and large, the floors are concrete, and there is a bedside table and a light. The bathrooms are basic, but functional, though one morning that part of town ran out of water. As with other places in rural Guatemala, you always should use bottled water for drinking, brushing teeth, etc. and only use the tap water for washing. You can get better hotels in Nebaj, for up to $30/night, but for $7 this is a good place for a budget traveler. And, it is run...