Budget
Hostal Real
Opened by the Rincon family over 30 years ago, Hostal Real is housed in a beautifully restored colonial building filled with color, unique artwork, and lovely gardens for reading and relaxing. The owners are very friendly and happy to help you with any questions or advice. Rooms are rather damp and dated. Cockroaches have been sighted but promised to take care of.
Hotel Familiar
Run by Jairo Toro, located only 100m from Casa Viena and a good second choice. Rooms are bright and clean and prices start from 18,000 Pesos per person.
Hotel La Espanola
Same price and style of hotel as La Muralla, but the rooms are a little stuffier and darker.
Hotel Marlin
Popular with backpackers, this centrally located, clean hotel with nice rooms with private bathroom and air-conditioned in all dorms, communal kitchen, free internet, free Breakfast, and tours services. Information for sailboats to the San Blas islands and Panamá is also available.
Hotel Villa Colonial
Well kept, clean, friendly and helpful management, rooms with air conditioning and fans, private bathrooms, some rooms without windows. They also have another buidling on Calle de la Media Luna, which has nicer, more expensive rooms. The staff is very nice and welcoming.
Casa Viena
Popular backpackers place with several 2 to 4 person rooms some with bathroom and a dormitory with arco . Facilities include internet, personal strongboxes, bookswap and a communal kitchen. Information for sailboats to the San Blas islands and Panamá is also available.
Hotel Centenario
New, clean hotel with nice rooms with air conditioning and fans, private bathrooms. Located in front of the Centenario Park, a 5 minutes walk from the old town. Services: Kitchen, Free Wifi/Internet.
Casa de la Chicheria
Offers services and facilities equivalent to some of the boutique hotels in the area, but at hostel prices. You can step out the front door and find yourself immersed in the cities culture and diversity. Awesome extras like access to a private catamaran and a house on the Rosario Islands, wake board lessons with a pro, ac in all rooms, pool, bbq area, kitchen, plus all the basics.
Northstar Backpackers Hostel
In Bocagrande, where all the action is, this cheap, cool hostel will give you everything you need to have fun. Awesome service, wifi, laundry service, safe lockers, and a good location near all the buzz of Cartagena city life!
Budget hotels and hostels can be found in Getsemaní around the Calle de la Media Luna. If you're already in Cartagena just walk along the Calle de la Media Luna and check out the numerous hostals to get an impression of their offering. You'll notice that the 'value for money' differs heavily between the places, even though they're next to each other: For 50,000 pesos you can either stay in a really nice private double room or in a dodgy dorm.
Hotel La Muralla
Clean, the owners are nice, can be loud on the weekends, not really a tourist place, but one of the cheapest options! A room for a single person with bathroom and fan is 15,000 pesos, and with shared bathroom is 10,000 pesos. A double room with shared bathroom is 15,000 pesos. Make sure to get a room on the second floor, the first floor rooms are a little musty.
Hostal La Casona
With approximately 30 rooms around a nice courtyard, this hostel offers a good deal for backpackers. Air-conditioned dorms with cable TV and a private bathroom for 20,000 pesos. Cheap and fast internet as well as tours agency service are available.
Midrange
Hotel Bahia
Casa India Catalina
Also recently converted, opened in 2006. Spacious rooms, some with balconies onto the street. Decent swimming pool. Simple furnishings.
Hotel Casa del Curato
The hotel was recently converted from an 18th century mansion and opened in Dec 2005. Good breakfasts served by Eufemia. Attractively furnished although regular rooms are small and windowless. Two internet computers for guests.
Casa Mara
SwissResidial
Small boutique hotel with charm and modern amenities: private bathroom, air condition, safety box, fridge, free high-speed Internet and Wifi, LCD Cable TV, laundry.
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Hotel Cochera de Hobo
In the heart of Cartagena's old walled city. It has four rooms. The hotel has a restaurant, room service, free wifi for guests, two terraces with beautiful views of the historical city center, and a third terrace with a BBQ. The rooms have air conditioning, minibar, plasma TVs, and satellite TV.
Cartagena de Indias Apartments
If you want to be close to a quiet beach away from downtown noises but near the historic monuments you can do what most Colombian tourists do, get a vacation rental with all the amenities of a luxurious hotel at lower price. They include air conditioning, Internet, cable tv, a gym and a swimming pool for those hot and sunny days in Cartagena.
Hotel-Hostal Santo Domingo
Great location close to the Plaza Santo Domingo. A/C extra. Also caters for groups of up to 25.
Top end
Hotel Sofitel Santa Clara
Nice hotel with decent prices for its category, though a bit generic.
Agua
A beautiful boutique hotel with rooms from COP$500,000 plus tax in low season.
Hotel Casa la Fe
This small beautifully restored hotel attracts many favourable reports in Trip Advisor and has been recommended in the NYT travel section. The hotel is English owned and run. Prices start at USD 110 per night book online and guests enjoy free WiFi and a PC work station.
La Passion Hotel Lounge
A boutique style hotel combining ancient architecture and modern commodities. Perfect for romantic escapade. 8 rooms. A beautiful terrace with swimming-pool. Free Wi-Fi. Spanish, English, French and
Charleston Santa Teresa Cartagena
Centro plaza de santa teresa cra 3ª 31 - 23 - colombia | tel: 57 5 6649494 / 6649547 | fax: 57 5 6649448 / 6649447
Up-scale hotels can be found in San Diego and El Centro area of the old city.
Hotel Ibatama and Hotel Ibatama Real
Hotel Ibatama and Hotel Ibatama Real are really an option for the people in the non luxurious budget. situated on either sides of Boca Grande, the hotels are nice, clean and you get value for money with the AC rooms. Close to the beach and Bocagrande is safe as always.
Hotel Alfiz
A romantic hotel in the old city.
La Merced Hotel
A boutique style hotel
Vista Heroica
Nice hotel on the island of Tierra Bomba 10 min boat from the Hilton Hotel of Cartagena. It's in the middle of a REAL local village, not far from the beach, and with a great view of Cartagena. Rooms are very clean, 3 beds 2+1, kitchen, individual jaccuzi!!, Air Co for 100.000 CoP for the room. Restaurant from 10.000 to 12.000 Cop, decent food.
In the ciudad amurallada, the most famous hotels are Sofitel Santa Clara and Charleston Santa Teresa, both old monasteries renovated in the 90s. Either of them have fabulous facilities - expect prices like Monaco. Otherwise, the newest part of the city, Bocagrande, offers the largest number of hotels of all prices. You should always try to stay in the ciudad amurallada, since this is what makes Cartagena unique, rather than its beaches, which are normally too crowded and not really clean. If you cannot afford the five-star hotels, you may try with colonial houses turned into hostels, but they are rather small and sometimes getting a room there may be a matter of luck.