Hotel María Angola

The hotel has a good localization. The staff is kind. Room is small, but clean. Breakfast is good, serving a variety of things. For sure it is a good option when travelling alone.

In general terms everything was good. The bed was too much soft for me, but someone may like it.

Good value for money, close to the metro station - very easy to attend the conference in the city centre. Good, safe and organized part of Santiago. There is a convenience store just across the street, open till 10 pm, closed on Sundays - ATM is inside of that shop. Room was reasonably large, larger than in most hotels.

I was there at the beginning of July, probably the period when the lowest temperatures are occurring (sometimes it goes to minimum about 2 degree Celsius during the night). This hotel has windows with very limited isolation ability and no proper heating, A/C can be used instead. I managed to heat up the room I guess to about 15 degrees during the night, too low for my taste. This could be the same at other hotels in Santiago, since this kind of "cold" weather probably lasts for a few days during the whole year. I also could have asked for a thicker blanket, which occurs to me just now. None of the of the hotel personnel spoke any English, including the receptionists (they didn't know even numbers), but they were cooperating enough to use a translator in phone - this way I was advised to buy an adapter to Chilean outlet at a Costanera center mall, I wasn't landed one (no need for adapters for phones with European cords, but if you need to charge a device with a third cord (a laptop), you need one - this third cord is placed in completely different place in Chile. Breakfast is basic, the furniture is dated. This all being said, this hotel was about half the price of other hotels in this good part of Santiago, so I guess the overall value was good.

Breakfast was very basic. Some canned fruit, (No Fresh Fruit available), a small selection of cereal and jam. Small selection of cold meat and cheese. No bacon, and eggs were just OK. Bread for toast was dinner rolls. Not much selection. It was OK, but definitely not great!

Breakfast, as mentioned. Mattress was very old and had no support. Air Conditioner positioned to blow cold air DIRECTLY onto the bed. Not good for your health. Bath tub was extremely difficult to access. Sides far to high and only one grab bar for safe exit. It was also somewhat slippery, and there was no rubber mat for security. Use with extreme caution. In room safe is very small, and would not accommodate an item as large as an Ipad. Very old hotel that badly needs to be brought into the 21st century.