Hotel Portal Del Sol — Hotel in Asuncion

We were in Paraguay for 3+ weeks doing a Habitat for Humanity build and touring the country. We used Portal Del Sol as our home base for the trip. We spent five nights there. The hotel and rooms are all very clean. Things are not fancy but very adequate and excellent for the cost. The rooms are set up with queen/single, queen only, or several single beds. The are a number of floors to the hotel and the rooms open up facing a beautiful courtyard that has lots of trees, flowers, birds, and shade. There is also a swimming pool.||The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner (all buffet style). The European style breakfast is included in the room cost and has quite a variety of things. Their cafe con leche was excellent.||It was a bonus to have a bar onsite so that you could get drinks at the hotel and sit in the courtyard or their spacious lobby. There is also a small refrigerator in each room so it is possible to stop at the market or store to pick up snacks and drinks.||The wifi worked in all the rooms we had as well as in the courtyard and lobby.||The hotel is not in the center of town but in a very nice neighborhood. It is within walking distance of a number of great restaurants as well as the Paseo la Galeria (mall). We also walked to a beautiful parquet (Parque de la Salude).||If you want to go to the city center, it is just a short taxi ride.||The staff were very helpful and many spoke english.||When we return to Asuncion we will definitely book the...

I reviewed this hotel back in 2014. It was pretty bad then as well. From other comments, nothing seems to have been improved in spite of the suggestions.||Had a free pick up from the airport, one of two wading pools seemed clean. The gardens are well kept ( the only improvement). The positive comments stop there!||Upon arrival, found a sheet dirty. There are no mattress covers so only a thin sheet covers it. The bed is really hard, pillows are lumpy, towels are so thin that some have holes! They were changed way too often ( not ecological at all).||The door key is hard to use, the safe is tiny and up so high on a shelf that a short person has problems! Shelves in closets are taken up with extra blankets ( never needed). No shelf space in bathroom and the amenities are poor.||The TV is a tiny antique with only Spanish speaking channels. Takes a long time to turn on and off.||Personnel are nice BUT, they forgot a wake up call at 7. Luckily we didn't have a flight to catch. |Breakfast info was always wrong saying it was till 10 each day. Info in the room noted 11 on weekends so who to believe?? When there was a big group there, nothing left at 9:15 but it was replenished after awhile. Almost always there were items missing and had to be asked for.||Price is low but one could have such an unpleasant stay that it is not even worth that!||Sure that we won't be...

Worst hotel in Asunción’s the best neighborhood…||||My goodness. No clue where to start. I stayed here 20 years ago the last time and absolutely nothing has changed until today. Mud and dirt after the heavy rains , everywhere even inside the public hallways, the elevator not working, breakfast was good but cramped. Staff couldn't even say good morning (in Spanish), rooms are in dire need of paint and renovation. They disconnect the elevators when they want to save money on electricity,apparently. Penny pinching greed is the main slogan of this hotel. Dirty walls, stained furniture, missing lightbulbs. No soundproofing whatsoever, bathrooms straight out of 1970. So cramped and cluttered, decoration out of someone's worst nightmare. My goodness what a disappointment. Four stars? Not even 1. The only good thing was the location which is one of the best of Asunción. This hotel is a bad example of how a hotel should not be: old, neglected, dirty and cramped with cheap, noisy tourgroups that yell loudly all night. Pay a little more and get the Los Alpes or Le Pelican next door. Don't ruin your vacation in this fantastic country by staying in a pocilga run by greedy, unscrupulous individuals without...