Medellin Hotels and Rental Apartments

[Bizzness]

First trip to Medellin: Arrive Friday, November 21,2014 - Depart Sunday, November 30,2014.

Top priority is a reliable internet connection. You can PM me.

Hey there,

I'll also be in MDE those same days. If you need company to explore the area let me know.

Bizzy

[CrackerBlack]

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[El Balsero]

First trip to Medellin: Arrive Friday, November 21,2014 - Depart Sunday, November 30,2014.

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[CrackerBlack]

have a 2 bedroom penthouse, available. its in an outstanding location, everything in the apartment is modern and secure. with high speed internet, cable tv, and free local calls.

from $60 per night, can do a better rate depending on length of stay. pm for details.

I'm currently shopping around for a decent 2 br place in Poblado or Laurelas, for 3+ months, needs to be available in the next two weeks. Currently staying in Poblado. If this place is available, I'd love to get the details, and see the place.

[Member #4398]

These are some of my thoughts and observation regarding sleeping in hostels and mongering in the Poblado area. Hostels are a very inexpensive forms of accommodation that are usually shared bunk bed from 2 bunks to 6-12 bunk, usually mix genders. It is super easy to find accommodation by just walking in since there are numerous hostels in the Poblado area. Some have private rooms. It can be a great atmosphere to meet single travelers from all over the world. I was able to check three hostels in the Poblado area while I was there in.

October and I just walked in at night without making any reservation and got my room. They are not that conducive to bringing a chicas in, but you can do it if you get a private room and you tell them that you are booking the room for yourself and your girlfriend and that she is coming later. The most you could do at the hostel is probably save money on the accommodations, and do your business outside like casa running during the day and the strip / night clubs at night.

1)http://www.tigerpawmedellin.com/photos.

http://www.tigerpawmedellin.com/rates

This hostel is just three blocks walking to Parque Lleras. They have privates and mix bunks. I got a private room for 60000 pesos (30 USA) with bathroom outside the room. They said no problems with bringing your girlfriend in, but she just had to register when she comes. I was able to rest well in this hostel and met some interesting travelers including Colombian young travelers to my surprise. The people I met were not into mongering just into the partying at parque Lleras. Very nice and clean place and friendly staff. They have a kitchen that cooks only breakfast, very good food. They have salsa dance lesson once a week and a nice bar / music and many other activities. I slept comfortably in this place after 3 am because there is a techno club across the street with mad loud music on a Saturday night (I went to that Club and was pretty good). But overall, that hostel was a pretty nice experience and I recommend it. It allowed me to explore the area and.

A cheap apartment in Laureles. It is a great place to check the area, doing day casa runs, partying in parque Lleras and for exploring different neighborhoods until you find a more private and mongering accommodation like I did after a couple of days.

2)http://www.casakiwi.net/.

http://www.casakiwi.net/id10.html

This is another nice hostel and just a couple of blocks from Parque lleras. The Colombian staff was not as friendly as the tiger paw hostel. They have privates and shares bunks / mix genders. They did not have a private room available so I took a shared bunk room for just $12 or 24000 pesos. The room was messy and with a funky smell cause of two messy backpackers sleeping there. There is a small bar that sells beers and drinks. They have a restaurant that serves breakfast only. This hostel was very noisy overall. People went to bed super late 4 am or 5 am, most travelers partying in Parque lleras and when they came back drunk they kept on talking loud forgetting people were trying to sleep. Don't recommend this place at all.

3)http://www.pitstophostel.com/.

http://www.pitstophostel.com/index.p...lin/rooms.html

This hostel is a party hostel. It is located in Patio Bonito, which is a far walk from Parque Lleras. This place gets super noisy cause of the party atmosphere and lots of young international single travelers that came to Medellin to party and drink. Also, Colombian single travelers stay here. They have private rooms and shared bunk rooms. A private room is about $28 US and a shared bunk $11. They have a bar, a restaurant, a pool, lots of drinking here. Noisy place not conducive to resting, more conducive to partying and meeting world travelers and / or hooking up with a drunk girl at the hostel and then take her to your private room.

Conclusions: I don't recommend hostels for mongering at all. Only recommend as a short term and cheap.

Alternative to get yourself familiar with different areas until you find an accommodation in an area and price that you like. The share rooms are super cheap like $12 dollars a night and private rooms $30. It is a great place to meet other travelers but it is not that conducive to bringing chicas unless you book a private room and say a girlfriend is coming later and you would have to register her name when you register or when she comes. You can get a room at any hour of the day by just walking in without making any reservations because there are tons of hostels in the Poblado area.

[Aunsa]

EDITOR's NOTE: I have read several forum posts and received additional emails complaining about Aunsa's business practices, including allegations that he has been "renting" apartments that do not exist or that he does not own, and his repeated failures to return rental reservation deposits for said apartments. Accordingly, I have revoked Aunsa's right to advertise or otherwise promote any apartment rentals or to post any other offers of commerce on the forum. Please govern yourself accordingly. Thanks, Jackson

[Member #4398]

I wanted to share this great apartment I booked it through booking.com in the town of Laureles in Medellin. I got a one bedroom with two twin beds, a bathroom, a living room with a small sofa and dining table, a kitchen with dishes and pots. It is located in a really nice middle class very safe neighborhood and 20 minutes walk to the El Metro Estadio station. Very clean and super nice building, very quiet and private. It just felt like having your own apartment in NYC since you get your own key to the building and the place. There is no security checking anybody in or out and there is no need for that since the area is very safe. I paid $30 USA dollars or about 60000 pesos per night. Here is the link http://tuapartamentomde.com/pricing.html. From the link I got the apartment that has the following note: #3 Apartamento amoblado Edificio Santo Tomas, barrio Laureles a 1 caudra de San juan why de la avenida Nutibara, ubicado enla Calle 41 #77 - 44. $59.900 pesos. If you wonder if is Chica friendly. It is because it is your own private apartment and you rarely see the neighbors. You just have to be discreet and be careful in bringing minors or trannies since it is a nice middle class neighborhood and building.

[Colombia Jake]

Has anyone can share where is the location of Colombiajake apartments and how are the apartments or rooms? His website does not say where the location and does not describe what kind of apartments?

The apartment is older but the suites are spacious and quiet. For $35 a night for the do it yourselfer, and $99 for the full service experience its a deal! Big pool and places to eat right on the corner its worth a try.

Thanks,

Jake

[Nbrand]

Anybody experience with The Four Points Hotel? Chica friendly?

Gracias!

[Nbrand]

Attractive Paisa single mother has rooms to let, including breakfast and lunch for 50.000 COP a day.

Location is at Carrera 80, near the Belen library.

She only speaks Spanish.

PM me for her phone number.

How open is she for some "room service"?

[Aunsa]

I was also interested in apartment rentals and asked him for some pictures. He asked what dates. I told him when and he never responded back. Not a very professional way to run a business IMO.

I said I was planning to get a website up and running soon. So its not a case of me ignoring you.

Also, the guy that runs my Medellin apartments, his wife passed away last week, hence a further delay. Very sad news, and I am still in shock myself.

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EDITOR's NOTE: I have read several forum posts and received additional emails complaining about Aunsa's business practices, including allegations that he has been "renting" apartments that do not exist or that he does not own, and his repeated failures to return rental reservation deposits for said apartments. Accordingly, I have revoked Aunsa's right to advertise or otherwise promote any apartment rentals or to post any other offers of commerce on the forum. Please govern yourself accordingly. Thanks, Jackson

[Hioctane]

I was also interested in apartment rentals and asked him for some pictures. He asked what dates. I told him when and he never responded back. Not a very professional way to run a business IMO.

[Hioctane]

Attractive Paisa single mother has rooms to let, including breakfast and lunch for 50.000 COP a day.

Location is at Carrera 80, near the Belen library.

She only speaks Spanish.

PM me for her phone number.

Why did you mention that she is attractive? Does that mean she is available? LOL.

Is her place chica friendly?

[Menteng]

Attractive Paisa single mother has rooms to let, including breakfast and lunch for 50.000 COP a day.

Location is at Carrera 80, near the Belen library.

She only speaks Spanish.

PM me for her phone number.

[Concarne]

I never asked for a deposit into my private account. we are a registered concierge company, and I made it very clear that payment should be made into our business account.

You are correct. you asked for deposit into a business account. How one is to verify if biz or personal I leave it to other members.

Secondly, I have been a member for over 8 years, and have a perfect track record both on this site and on others.

Is it 6 or 8? Your PM to me stated over 6 years. I still have it in my inbox.

Thirdly, you said you will only take the apartment once you are in Medellin and can view it. I advised that this is possible only if its still available. I said there is a risk to this as we do not hold apartments on the pretense that you will "come and inspect it" and you accepted, so please do state what happened correctly.

I told you I wanted to check it out yes. because I thought it was strange that it had previously been listed in airnbn and then disappeared. I requested to see it prior to sending you my money because you were not using a mainstream rental site. I was the one who told you it was fine if you rented it. I never wanted to give the impression that you gave and then took away the reservation. What I told you was if you have it and i can check it out great. I also requested that maybe I could take a peek for possible future rental if already occupied. we were in agreement to meet, I tried contacting you several times and no response. In fact the first I hear from you is now in this post. several weeks after I left mde.

With all due respect, have provided many services to people on this forum, and have taken many many people from this forum around both Medellin and Bogota, and never had any issues, please view the forum posts to confirm this.

Perhaps it maybe more productive and reassuring to your future potential guests that you provide such contacts in the original PMs. The potential uselessness or value of this. Well I leave that to a future customer.

Concarne, I am not one that seeks problems, however I felt it is important to set the record straight. And I hope one day we can have a beer in Colombia!

Beers on me man no worries. honestly, I was ready to rent and liked the location. I was disappointed you did not meet me and I did not get to see the place. But you must also understand that, although a couple of hundred bucks is no big deal to loose, I do not like going around burning money for no reason. there are plenty of other rental options both that are more secure and that have much more history and much more established. Why not choose those? The onus is on the new and smaller guy (you) to make the potential customer very much at ease so that a rental can be done. As I asked in one of our first exchanges. set up paypal? Or use airnbn (what happened to that listing anyways?

Anyways, free market free speech, telling it how it was (except for the corrections above). If you can show me the place next time and I can have a way to have my cash protected I am all in.