Santiago Travel Forum

Has anyone stayed at the following hotels and can they advise on them? -

Best Western Los Espanoles
Casa Newen Bed & Breakfast
Panamericana Hotel Providencia
La Fayette Suites

And if you know any other good, preferably small hotels in Providencia, I would be very open to recommendations.

That is a strange mixture! You have a variety of prices there.
Los Españoles is good. On the other side of the river Mapocho from the restaurant area of Providencia.
Casa Newen is a bit out of the way really.
Panamericana is big, very central, a bit noisy on the front.
La Fayette Suites are good. I think price includes breakfast and you get a kitchen.

Other places in Providencia: Vilafranca B&B (or they may now call themselves boutique hotel) a couple of blocks from a metro, very small but always pleases. If you want somewhere you can cook, Apart Hotel Tobalaba is in Providencia and good as is the Santa Magdalena. A lot of companies invest in apartments in new buildings and rent them out as Apart Hotels. Often several companies will have apartments in the same building at different prices. Here are some more of the better known ones.
www.lasebastiana.cl
www.elmahue.cl
These are in Las Condes, but the bit right next to Providencia where a lot of restaurants are:
http://www.altocastello.cl

thank you huentutu for your information. it was very helpful. i'll be down with a group in november. my first hotel choice (the orly) doesn't take groups hence the inquiry. maybe we'll see you down there.

I thought of another smallish hotel which doesn't often get mentioned but which is well placed for the metro and in Providencia.
www.hoteldiegodevelazquez.com/

I and my family have been in a good apart-hotel call ELMAHUE, wich in EL GOLF very close to Providencia, in a fancy neighbourhood whith a lot of cofee shops and restaurants around, basicaly are apartments with cleaning services and they are much cheapers than hotels good luck