270 ReviewsProperty Location With a stay at Hotel Cartagena Premium in Cartagena (Bocagrande), you'll be convenient to Bocagrande Beach and Puerta del Reloj. This hotel is within close proximity of Cartagena Fishing Club and Cartagena de Indias Convention Center. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 140 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and plasma televisions. Your bed comes with down blankets, and all rooms are furnished with single sofa beds. Windows open to beach and city views. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Partially open bathrooms with showers feature rainfall showerheads and makeup/shaving mirrors. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Dont miss out on the many recreational opportunities, including an outdoor pool, a spa tub, and a sauna. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in the lobby. Dining Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Hotel Cartagena Premium. While enjoying a refreshing dip in the hotel pool, you can order your favorite drink at the poolside bar. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include an Internet point, currency exchange, and dry cleaning/laundry services. This hotel has 3 meeting rooms available for events. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and free parking is available onsite.
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Bocagrande Av. San Mart�n #11-113, Frente a la Base Naval,Cartagena,CO,Colombia
Property Location With a stay at Hotel Cartagena Premium in Cartagena (Bocagrande), you'll be convenient to Bocagrande Beach and Puerta del Reloj. This hotel is within close proximity of Cartagena Fishing Club and Cartagena de Indias Convention Center. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 140 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and plasma televisions. Your bed comes with down blankets, and all rooms are furnished with single sofa beds. Windows open to beach and city views. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Partially open bathrooms with showers feature rainfall showerheads and makeup/shaving mirrors. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Dont miss out on the many recreational opportunities, including an outdoor pool, a spa tub, and a sauna. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in the lobby. Dining Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Hotel Cartagena Premium. While enjoying a refreshing dip in the hotel pool, you can order your favorite drink at the poolside bar. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include an Internet point, currency exchange, and dry cleaning/laundry services. This hotel has 3 meeting rooms available for events. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and free parking is available onsite.
Rating from 270 reviews
Sleep Quality
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lozanocarlosf on 22/10/2017 14:47
Good staff but rooms where terrible. A/A only worked on high. Old linen. Towels where old and cheap. Bathroom is so small you can hardly and hardly sit on the toilet. Bed was to hard and with no blanket. Bad room mirror was damped. You can hardly see yourself. Fridge was disconnected with no minibar items. Restaurant breakfast was basic and cheap. Elevators and swimming pool and city sites are the best. Excelent location. Sorry, I will never go back.
on 22/09/2017 21:53
The location is good but the hotel not. Is near to the sea and is located in a good zone, but the rooms are definitely not comfy, the bed has a concrete base, the nightstand too. The bathroom don't have door, the shower has a curtain, the towels are so old (I have better in my home), the place where is locate the toilet is small (very small). The breakfast buffet has a lot of options but in case of fruit don't see fresh, the eggs are grey, but the bread was good. The pool floor have a nice view. In my case tv doesn't work, wifi fail, ac sounds a lot, my room has a balcony with a lot of (I'm not sure what that). The personal are good.
PendejoTWTD on 05/02/2017 18:11
On arrival the staff seemed very distanced and cold. No smiling warm welcome that one is accustomed to in Colombia.
Porter staff were willing and helpful enough.
Room was a decent size with the obligatory wall mounted flat screen TV, channels included BBC Entertainment so got a fix of old Top Gear [incl Clarkson's Crew] and Master Chef.
Nice big bed but had a concrete base and side table on which my wife cut her thigh one evening climbing into bed.
Room had a fridge, absolutely necessary here, and a solitary plastic chair.
Toilet was small, if I was any fatter woudl not have fit in.
Access to a strong box just inside the room door... which had a broken lock leading to an unfortunate naked moment when cleaning lady entered room when I was coming out of the toilet!!!
The room had a terrace just big enough for one person to stand in and 2 x a/c units marring the view from the window.
Had a 19th story room overlooking the naval base, old town, docks and the cruise terminal, this was a nice unobstructed view, had we been beach side a new construction would have partially obstructed the view.
One flight of stairs up to the swimming pool which was rarely crowded and had a nice sun terrace with 6 sun beds + a "bar" area.
What really marks the hotel down was the food. We were on full board and maybe, just maybe, we've been spoiled by our experiences in Spain & Turkey, but the food here was uninspiring to say the least. I imagine that fat farms have better tasting, quality and quantity of food available.
Whilst there were [the same] salad items available there wasn't much else. Chicken and fish served virtually everyday. In a country with great meat we did not see sight nor smell of anything remotely resembling beef or pork.
Breakfast rarely changed scrambled eggs and a horrible sausage type thing every day.
The upside of the uninspiring food... I probably lost rather than gained weight.
I would not go there again even if paid to do so.
With so much competition for business you'd expect more. Oh and apparently there was entertainment on the 17th floor... no-one told us, we read it on the back of the door the day we left... as I said staff were completely uninterested.
default154992 on 02/02/2017 22:48
When we booked there was supposed to be free airport shuttle. We prepaid on Expedia. When checking in found the room clerks knew nothing about an airport shuttle, let only included in the room price. I was thrilled on departure morning when asking them to call transportation to the airport they showed me the white car at the door, whose driver when I asked about cost asked me if I had a room at the hotel, with my positive answer he indicated no problem but, did not actually say it was included. On the way to the airport, with my luggage in the trunk, he pulled over in a sketchy neighbourhood and demanded 20,000 pesos for the ride to the airport. I gave it to him and he did take me to the airport.
The food is about the cheapest (not least expensive) that I have experienced in Colombia during five visits, the support from staff was very limited even though I do speak a lot of poor Spanish, the room was OK but atmosphere of the entire place was spartan, and the location is really awful. Stay away from Bocagrande if you are at all into going out for nice walks, or finding nice restaurants or bars. It is a string of very tall hotels along a narrow peninsula. There are much nicer areas in Cartagena, and likely much better deals even at this low cost. For the same price in the rest of Colombia I have stayed in very nice places.
Felipe T on 23/01/2017 21:25
The hotel was nice since it was near to a lot of places. The food was amazing because it was a butter all inclusive. However. the air conditioning was not working well, I believe because the building is old.
