Paipo Bed Breakfast & Surf — Hotel in Lima Metropolitan Area

After planning an impromptu trip to Lima for a weekend of surfing and beach lounging, I booked a room here on hotels.com. I booked the room the same day we were to arrive, which was a Friday night Our arrival, however would not be until very late (around 2am so technically Saturday morning). Because of this late arrival, I emailed the owner to let him know that we would be there, it would just be late. ||We arrived, as planned, around 2am after a long flight from the states. We took an uber from the airport (flat fee to Chorillos, I believe it was around $17USD). I showed the employee our hotels.com reservation, to which he basically said no, he didn't have a room for us. Moment of panic ... I then checked my email and saw that the owner had emailed me back. I showed him the emails and suddenly there was a room for us. Seemed kind of sketchy but I would 100% recommend that you do NOT use hotels.com to book this place. booking.com or hostelworld.com seem to be better. ALSO, if you have a late arrival, shoot them an email. I think that saved us. ||Anyways, he showed us to our room. He didn't check us on or give us a key, telling us we would take care of that in the morning. We were tired, so that was okay. We had booked the deluxe, but I think we ended up with the one below it. Just a basic double bed. It was fine for us. Hot in the rooms, so grab a fan if you can (some of the rooms have them, we ended up grabbing one out of an empty room). Bathrooms were shared but never crowded or an issue, and they were kept clean. Bring towels (for the beach and the bath) and a bar of soup (no hand soap in the bathrooms).||The next morning I went down to check us in. A girl was working and she took our passports for copies, but told us we would "get a key later" ... in the end we never got a key. We didn't really have much of value and we didnt have any problems, though typically I do like to lock up my things, especially my passport. ||We only had breakfast one day, was very basic, the roll, jam and tea. If you want something a little more hearty, there is an EXCELLENT bakery a block away that we managed to visit three times during our 48 hours there. It is called Parking 330 Pastelria at the intersection of Huaylas and Olaya. Super cheap empanadas (we ate meals for $1-$3USD) and very delicious! ||Location is great. 10-15 minute walk to the beach (basically down the cliff) lots of restaurants close by as well. We never ubered or cabbed anywhere except the airport. Took surfing lessons in Miraflores from Team Surf Peru and they picked us up and dropped us off free of charge. ||I booked three nights at this hostel because our flight home was not until 2am and we knew we would need a place to shower/hang out for the day. We left around 11pm on the night of our flight, and we are standby travelers so we were not 100% sure if we would make the flight. We told him we might be back, and he told us no, that we only booked two nights. We definitely booked three, but at this point I didn't feel like arguing and so we just left. We agreed we would get a hotel in town if we didn't make the flight, but we did so it wasn't an issue. ||This place was fine for a weekend, but the fact that they didn't have our reservation, and they basically told us not to come back (even though we had already been there all day, way past what check out time would have been if we had only booked two night) wasn't cool. You can't beat the price though, so I think for a quick surf/beach weekend I might give this place another try, but using a different...

The place itself was pretty nice, with good internet and nice rooms, so when we arrived we were really excited. But over the time we were there, the treatment we received was shocking, and the pleasantness of the rooms only made it more disappointing.||The place itself wasn't clean or efficiently run: we had to keep telling them to replace toilet paper when it ran out (one of the two bathrooms never had TP!), every time I went to cook I had to wash up the owner and his family's dirty pots and pans before I had anything to use, the lights stopped working and they never replaced them, and they didn't have change for our room payment (which had to be made upfront - a little unusual in a hotel). We had to ask them three times for our change over a couple of days, and in the end ended up having to go up the street to get change ourselves. ||Furthermore the people that ran the B&B (and as a result our overall experience) were nasty to an almost comic degree for example: ||-I first time I used the kitchen to cook a meal, I tidied after myself, including the dishes, but the owner then called me back into the kitchen to give me a lecture about how I needed to do the dishes and clean after each time I cooked (which I had just done!). This wasn't the only time we were reminded we needed to do our dishes, and usually there was no washing liquid or sponge, and dirty pots and old food in the kitchen: super hypocritical. After this we felt awkward being in public spaces and preferred to spend our time and eat our meals in our room.||-One evening we came back late and were looking forward to going to bed when the owner knocked on our door. We had been drinking water out of a cup which was apparently his 'special cup', that he apparently needed to use right then. (I suggest in the future having one space for cups for guests and another for special cups, man!)||-One of the owners kids burst into our room another day without knocking (luckily we were clothed!) accusing us of having a special plastic bowl we had also apparently not been allowed to use. ||-I went downstairs at one point to make a cup of coffee and was told I had to put a t shirt on, despite the owner walking around without a shirt on at other times.||-I wanted to go downstairs during what was the allotted breakfast time one morning, which was coincidentally the only way to leave the building, but was told I wasn't allowed to walk on the floor because it had just been cleaned, so I would have to go back up to my room to wait until it was dry... When I stood there kind of confused and incredulous, the kids all chimed in to repeat the instructions.||This was overall a very weird, uncomfortable experience. It ended up feeling like we were living in a sharehouse with a bunch of really controlling, annoying, and demanding housemates. I can understand they want to keep the place clean, but wasn't really how I wanted a hostel/hotel/B&B to feel, especially given the hypocrisy. Most of these individual weird things would have been OK if they were isolated events or if they were delivered in a less demanding, patronising way, but overall we did not...

Very cozy place a little out of town, just south of Miraflores. Very beautiful design and quiet rooms. Warm showers, clean toilets, good WiFi in common area (a little week in the rooms), bread and a hot drink for breakfast (not very rich, like most hostels). Close to the beach, on which you can walk on straight into the hearth of Miraflores in about one and a half hour. Or you can walk on the road and get to the south of Miraflores in about twenty minutes. To get into town you can either take local buses which leaves close to the hostel, but are a little difficult to get on the right one. Or you (much easier) can get a Metropolitan card, the lone bus lane that goes up and down. One of the rooms didn't have a proper lock when we were there(it had a toilet kind of lock) , but it was going to get fixed they say. Overall a really good stay if you, like us, can't really stand the...