Name: Hostal Color
Address: Urriola 664, Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Valparaiso, 2370880, Chile
Rating: 7

Smoke-free property

General

Non-smoking rooms

Family room

Rooms

Common kitchen

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

No parking

Parking

Family/Kid Friendly

Kids

Pets Not Allowed

Pets

Location

At the hotel

Port of Valparaiso

Rodelillo Airport

Vina del Mar

Hostal Color

Valparaiso

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

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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

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

This hostel was average.. No hot water and WiFi is slow. Most of all no English made it difficult.. Rooms small and kitchen is more a kitchenette. Location in up on a hill but has some great sights/restaurants in the neighbourhood.

Average 

We stayed in Hostal Color for seven nights in March 2016.
We liked the nice and quiet hostal in the centre of Valparaiso.
The host was very friendly and showed us all available rooms.
We stayed at the top floor in a double room. The kitchen was rather small but big enough for us two.


Nice hostal

We booked for a longer period of time but ended up leaving after 3 days because it was so terrible. 

There was no hot water upstairs and we were told to use the downstairs bathroom. This meant 12 people had to share one bathroom. 

The hostel lacked the basics needed in the bathroom and kitchen when we first arrived. We found ourselves purchasing tea towels and cleaning products just to clean the dirty kitchen before we could actually use it. In addition, the pots and pans in the cupboards were filthy and the fact that we needed to clean them ourselves before using them was not something we were expecting to do.

When the electricity went out, we communicated this to the owner who responded with rudeness and blamed us for consuming too much electricity. There was not even an attempt to appear polite. 

When we left, they refused to refund us the remainder of the money we had paid for the additional nights. 

Never ever go there. Yuck. 

Run in the opposite direction

We booked here because it has a good location, and we found this to be true, but after that things turned downhill! They charged us the IVA tax, even though we paid in USD and provided them with copies of our passports and immigration cards. The staff were rude and obnoxious to us when we tried to explain that we were exempt. And the "hostel", it's a tiny top floor apartment. But first you need to navigate your way up the narrow staircase between the bags of rubbish and old discarded mattresses. The apartment/hostel has no common room, the kitchen is so tiny with no window. Only two people can fit in the kitchen at any one time, and even at that it's tight. The utensils were almost non existent, only 1 kitchen knife! No hot water to wash dishes. There's only 1 bathroom between 4 room, all room cater for 2 or more people so there can be a long que in the morning! No towel provided. Rooms never cleaned during 3 night stay. No heating, we stayed during winter and it was freezing! Don't stay here, there's loads of other lovely places to stay close by!

Terrible 

To start I should say this is not a hostal but a shared apartment with a small dark kitchen. Okay the rooms were a reasonable size but no towels were given and over the 3 days we spent here they never serviced our room. The hallway to the ground floor apartment is used by the bar next door to store tables, bits and bins (see picture). 
As you're are aware if you spent any time in Chile that there is a 19% tax (iva) that tourist are not required to pay provided you meet certain requirements (if you have foreign currency you automatically apply), we'll this hostal refused to drop this charge on our bill. After which we contacted our booking provider who agreed that we were exempt. The hostal disagreed and forced us to pay the tax.  The booking provider told us to pay this tax and they would refund the amount paid as this was the only timely resolution that could be provided.  The booking provider required us to get an itemised bill so that they could clearly see the tax paid.  The hostal refused this and would only give a receipt with total paid.  And the staff member couldn't understand why we found it strange that they couldn't fulfil this request. 

This hostal (and I used hostal in the loosely term) is not worth ~30 USD per night(when you include the tax,  even without that tax it's hard to justify, hindsight is a wonderful thing). The location is the only positive. When I read the other reviews I wonder if it was the same place but I can only speak for our experience. Stay away and spend your money elsewhere.

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