Unique and boutique, Casa Lola hotel has done much to change the way people see Getsemani.
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This is What We Love
- Intimate chill-out space perfect for relaxing or getting the party started
- Being in the thick of the hippest, most happening barrio in Cartagena and being able to get away from it all when you need some peace and quiet
- Sophisticated interiors by one of the most accomplished architects working in Cartagena
- You get more bang for you buck from hotels in Getsemani. Casa Lola's rates are very competitive compared to hotels in the Historic Centre
- Close proximity to some of the best bars and restaurants in Cartagena, including great coffee and juice at Ceiba Juice Bar and fantastic cocktails at Malagana Café & Bar
- The hotel is small enough to rent out the entire place between friends and turn it into your own luxurious holiday home-from-home
- Open-minded and accommodating staff that take their lead from the cultured Spanish owners.
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What you Need to Know
- Nacho's interiors are not designed for paranoid parents. There are more child-friendly hotels in Cartagena than Casa Lola
- Getsemani is not Bocagrande or Centro. There are real people living there. Some of them look a little moody but they're not! Use common sense and it is as safe (or safer) as anywhere in the world
- If you want to book the entire place during high season you need to get your skates on and book well in advance
- Rooms at the front of the house are blessed with street views. The view comes with traffic
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The Details
Address: Getsemaní, Calle del Guerrero No 29-108, Cartagena, Colombia
Rating: This is Cartagena
Neighbourhood: Getsemani
Rating: Trip Advisor
WHY THIS IS CARTAGENA
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Concierge Services
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Concierge Services
While Colombia's reputation has been transformed in recent years, some visitors can still be daunted by the prospect of arriving in Colombia on vacation for the first time. To ensure you and your family or loved ones, feel right at home we’ll send a member of our Cartagena travel team to help you check you in and get you plugged into Cartagena's laid-back Caribbean groove. Your bilingual concierge will be on hand to join up the dots throughout your dream Colombian holiday. If there's anything you need, from table reservations to coordinating the most authentic tours and experiences in Cartagena, you can call on them day or night
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We’ve slept in every bed in town and have hand-picked a blissful collection of luxury vacation rentals in Cartagena that will make you yawn with yearning. Even some of the most impressive houses to rent in Cartagena require a little intervention to make sure they live up to our lofty standards so we offer complimentary airport transfers and a great breakfast served fresh every day to ensure that all our exclusive colonial mansions, beach villas and private islands are a cut above your average stay in Cartagena.
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ROOMS & AVAILABILITY
Choose Your Room
06 April 2020 - 08 April 2020, 2 Nights, 1 Room, 0 Adults, 0 Children.
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Hotel Casa Lola is decorated with a fine mixture of antiques, artisan and modern elements, reflected in every guest room. They are equipped with LCD cable TV and a minibar. |
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THE LOWDOWN
Amenities
- Air Conditioning
- Dry cleaning
- Swimming Pool
- Jacuzzi
- TV
- Wi-Fi
- Safe Deposit Box
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FULL LISTING
The creation of celebrated Madrid-based architect, Ignacio 'Nacho' Garcia de Vinuesa and his partner Rafael Rios Reguera, this modern 10-room property has been shaped intelligently from two crumbling Republican mansions.
Drawing on a career designing high-end clubs, bars and restaurants in the Spain, Panama and the US, 'Nacho' has created an eclectic multi-cultural interiors palette for discerning, design-conscious travelers looking to kick back by day and trip the light fantastic in Getsemani's happening clubs and bars at night.
Also responsible for fitting out one of Cartagena's most luxurious restaurant experiences, Erre by Ramon Freixa, 'Nacho' has been creating some of Cartagena's most sophisticated spaces with his rough-cut, well-traveled style.
Nacho's eclectic interiors combine a soft spot for the Spanish pop art duo, Manolo Caceres and Jose Miranda with Feng Shui, exposed walls, up-cycled relics rescued from the renovation and bespoke rough-cut wooden furniture shipped in from Spain.
From the rooftop pool with a view of the castle to the plunge pool and fountains at ground level, water runs through the three-storey property to freshen up the shared outside spaces.
Walls of industrial-powered fans, Bali-style daybeds and the free-flowing water features help create a stylish, shady snug perfect to escape the crowds and get away from the searing Caribbean sun during the day. Sun-worshipers have the option of roasting themselves by the hotel's rooftop pool and Jacuzzi to the backdrop of San Felipe Castle.
Each of the comfortably fitted bedrooms and suites are equally well decked out and come with their own particular style. Even standard bedrooms are spacious but if you are looking for a little added legroom we suggest you opt for number 10 of the Casa Lola top 10. The master suite looking down onto the towering Nispero tree in the interior patio has floor-to-ceiling windows that offer extra light and an entertaining, inside-outside bathroom.
The adjacent property is home to Casa Lola Apartments, which can be rented individually or together for groups of up to 12 people.
LOCATION
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Getsemaní
Cartagena's second historic walled city has gone from no-go to must-go in less than five years thanks to some of the city's hippest new bars and restaurants.
If Centro is Manhattan, Getsemani is more Brooklyn – an up-and-coming hipster hangout trying desperately to cling to its roots. It's regularly referred to as the coolest neighborhood in Colombia and has featured in some exalted lists as one of the world's most interesting places to visit.
A little rougher around the edges than the already gentrified districts of Centro and San Diego and the lofty ambitions of the beach districts, Getsemaní offers a glimpse into the more unruly historic centre of the past.
A fiercely traditional barrio offering a heady mix of bars, dancing, affordable diners, hostels and hotels for backpackers and bohemian colonists looking to mix it up with the carefree locals.
Historically populated by merchants, smugglers and freed slaves thriving from activity in the port and main marketplace, Getsemaní has always been more raucous than the hoity centre with all its regal airs and graces.
Much of the district's newest bars, follow in the city's loudest traditions.
The fantastic mix of roots and laid-back bohemia has attracted the attention of a string of leading travel publications including Conde Nast Traveler, Wallpaper* and the New York Times.
While much of the area's carefree population are direct descendants of the hell-raisers of yesteryear it is no longer the terrifying place that rich Cartageneros used to scare their children into staying at home.
Backpackers, never averse to roughing it for a cheap place to stay have braved the bogeyman with few problems for decades and a growing number of boutique hotels and hostels have followed their lead setting up shop in some of the bigger properties on Calle Guerrero and Calle del Carretero.
Uber-hotel chains like the Four Seasons have plans to kick the barrio into the stratosphere with stellar openings in 2021.
Some of the best restaurants in the city have now set up shop in the counter-cultural epicenter of Cartagena. Celele and La Cocina de Pepina are two standout options for foodies and Cafe Stepping Stone serves up the city's most popular brunch.
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