Name: Hostal El Parche de Alex
Address: Isla Baru - Playa Blanca, Sector la Motica, Baru Island, Baru Island, Baru Island, 130017, Colombia
Rating: 7

24-hour reception

Smoke-free property

General

Non-smoking rooms

Family room

Mosquito net

Rooms

Luggage storage

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Common kitchen

Meals

Airport transportation

Transfer services

Transfer

Spanish

English

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Tour assistance

Tourist services

Fishing

Recreation

No parking

Parking

Next to the beach

Pool and beach

Diving

Snorkelling

Sports

Family/Kid Friendly

Kids

Pets allowed

Pets

Location

At the hotel

Blanca Beach

Rafael Nunez International Airport

Hostal El Parche de Alex

Baru Island

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

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king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

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6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

My husband and 3 teenage children were welcomed by Alex on Dec 24th. We decided to stay until Dec 30th, GREAT and best decision ever! Alex is a great host, and from when we first met him he made sure to make it a point that we were "home". We did feel like we were in our own home. We stayed in a queen size hut facing the ocean. The kids stayed in a 3 double size bed hut facing the back. As we lay in bed we could see the ocean meeting he sky in the far distance. The beach is white sand and clean. The ocean comes in many shades of blue, and at night it's light by the moonlight. One night, we noticed the waves were washing up little lights on the beach, it was a spectacular to see mother nature at it's best. The chef at Alex' is very talented, her meals were very tasty. The island is busy with day trip tourists arriving between 10am and leaving at 5pm. This was a fun time for relaxing and people watching. The closest town is Pasacaballos and it will cost you between      $8 000 - $10 000 pesos by particular car, which are always ready available. On our last day, Alex reserved for a speedboat to take us back to Cartagena $20 000/person. Overall this experience was better than a 5 star resort! Thank you Alex!

Paradise

Just go.... nice place and the owner is great and really helpfull too... he gives you a lot of good advices and tips if you want to keep moving around .... there is some problem with eletricity and water but that is on the whole beatch...

Amazing

My group had mixed feelings on Alex's place. He welcomed us right away for low rates: $15,000 pesos for the two camping, $70,000 pesos for the two of us in a cabaña ($35,000 each per night). We stayed two nights. The cabaña was cozy enough, up a ladder with a water basin to wash our feet at the bottom and a breezy open doorway. The mattress was comfortable –– my friend and I got a good taste of it when we were both knocked out for a day with 24-hour illness, no doubt from the lack of ability to wash our hands properly or shower for days. The water ran out at Alex's and he was a bit rude to my sick friend about this, but always kind to me. His temperament seemed to vary depending on when you caught him. He politely told me that there would be water to shower the next day, but we headed out at about 11 a.m. and it was still out. Water shortages are understandable on a remote island like this where tourism has recently exploded, but the rudeness was tough for us to stomach in the midst of a poisoning. Consider staying elsewhere, and regardless make sure to bring along hand sanitizer to Barú. And don't eat the fish.

OK for the price

The hostal is lovely and the staff are great, food is affordable but unfortunately the first night we had our backpacks robbed from our room with money and passports in. We were under the impression that there would be someone there all the time but when we got back to the hostal everything was dark. It was unfortunate as it could have been a good experience. Be careful with your belongings clearly there is a problem in the area with theft of tourist. 

Unfortunate experience 

We stayed a night in the "camping area" (highly crowded). The toilets were dirty, partly because of the bad management, partly because people just don't care enough. Good for cheap a cheap stay if you expectations are low. The smell of rotten garbage woke us up in the morning. Amazing beach though...

Amazing location, not so amazing place to stay

We didn’t stay at the hostel but on a day trip arranged a bioluminescent boat trip with the hostel/the bar next door. The trip itself was fun and the plankton really glows when you swim, but as we were only in playa Blanca for the day had nowhere to leave our bags, assuming they would be safe on the boat while we swam (which they should be on an organised trip!), unfortunately when we checked our bags later after getting off the boat, we both had money missing ~$400,000 in total, luckily he didn’t take passports, phones or debit cards. Unfortunate ending to a good trip, sadly I don’t know how we could have avoided it other than swimming one at a time, or locks on our bags. 

Hostal El Parche de Alex

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