Name: Hotel Hacienda Betania
Address: Vereda Trinidad, 5 km carretera Ppal, 251210 Guasca, Colombia, Guasca, Guasca, Guasca, 251210, Colombia
Rating: 6

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El Dorado International Airport

Hotel Hacienda Betania

Guasca

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A warm place to stay and enjoy La sabana de Bogota. It is a classic B&B experience.  The owner Doña Berta, cooks for all her guests. She is an incredible cook, Colombian food with international flavor. The best part is that she genuinely enjoys her guests.  Hotel Betania has been our best weekend trip outside of Bogota.

Incredible vista

It's so hard to review Hotel Hacienda Betania.  It encapsulates all of the contradictions of the Colombia of 2014, and some of the things that would drive you nuts stem from the things that are great about the country generally.  First of all, the positives:
* Berta is a first-class person, very caring and helpful.  She loves her hotel and has a huge heart.
* The location is beautiful, with stunning vistas and nice places to walk near and around the property.
* The staff are attentive and work to make you feel welcome.  They never faltered in our three days there.
* When we asked to extend our stay until the evening on our last day as we had an international flight that night, Berta not only allowed it, but didn't charge us for that without me asking for that, as most other hotels would.

I know you're still reading, because you want to know what I mean by the title of this review.  Well, here are some not-so-positives:
* As I mentioned, Berta has a huge heart, and that extends to dogs.  She's been rescuing dogs off the Colombian streets, and has now accumulated some dogs.  OK, 23 dogs, to be exact.  Yes, 23.  As of three days ago.  There may be more today.  My wife and I like dogs, and at some point we got used to it and even had some "walking buddies", but were also woken at 5AM and 5:20AM our two mornings there by dogs barking.  We're birders, so early rising isn't a huge deal, and anybody who's spent time in rural Colombia (or anywhere in rural South America) is used to roosters going off from 3:30AM forward - thankfully there are none of them around - but if you're not into dogs, you won't be into this place.
* The food was decent but dated.  Dishes were well executed, but we ate better at several other locations during this week-long trip.
* The whole hotel is in real need of maintenance.  It was built in 1926 and it shows, with swallows and bees living in the roof, lots of dry rot in the wood in various places, etc.  I suspect there's a lot more going on, as that's only what you can see.
* The hotel isn't easy to find, and the map on the website is not nearly detailed enough.  Here are the GPS coordinates: N 4 48.176, W 73 54.316
* The hotel is overpriced for Colombia.  Our room was $95 per night, *not* including breakfast, and the food was relatively expensive as well.  When comparing to hotels in other regions, I think that the hotel is at least 40% more expensive than it should be.

Will we go back?  If we're in the area, then yes, I think so.

Must love dogs

The host is very friendly and nice lady. The views are  very nice in a clear day. But, the hotel is old and needs repairs. The bathrooms have a sensor and every second you are in complete darkness. Beds have old mattresses and old blankets. The building is very cold because it has tile and the weather is cold. The hotel smells like dirty dogs as you see them inside everywhere even in the kitchen. The owner loves dogs and has more than 25 inside and outside.
It is a long way to find the place and the road to the hotel is narrow, bumpy and full of cow manure on the way. Many times the cows blocked the way.  The cost per night is very high and the same the cost of food.  It could be a nice place with some remodeling and without so many dogs.

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