Name: Panama's Paradise Saigoncito
Address: Saigon a dentro, Bocas del Toro, Bocas del Toro, Bocas del Toro, 507, Panama
Rating: 9

Smoke-free property

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Bocas Del Toro

Panama's Paradise Saigoncito

Bocas del Toro

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golf-view

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

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safe

mini-bar

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breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

At First: The neighbours doga are awfully loud the whole night, but thats Not the fault of the hotel.

The rooms are very Clean, there is a very good WiFi for Fred.
The bathroom is Clean and you geht a towel, soap and Stuff for Free. 
The kitchen is absolutely okay and got everything you need. 

There is a washig service, every taxy Driver knows the place and it is very Close to the beach.

Relaxed place to enjoy boccas

Panama's Paradise is a cute little guest house about 15 min walking distance (taxi to city center is 60ct)  from the center, located in the Saigon area consisting of small bungalows. 

The reception is a bit hard to find, you enter through a passway from the side road. Usually at night it is lit with fairy lights.

We were greeted by lovely Sarah, originally from Germany and her little girl. She showed us our cabin and explained the amenities.

The cabin consisted of two Appartements which share living room, kitchen and bathroom. At the time of our visit we were the only couple to stay in the cabin and had everything to ourselves.

Our room included a ceiling fan and a vault and was beautifully decorated with paintings of flowers on the wall, as well as two towels and two soaps. 

The entire cabin was decorated nicely and very charming.
The bathroom was small but absolutely OK considering the size of the cabin and even had warm water! 
The kitchen consisted of a fridge, sink and stove with oven. 
The cabin had two porches, one with a table and two hammocks, the other had two tables.

The garden in which the cabin was located in looked like an oasis and was very lush.
Overall the property was decorated with glass bottles and bamboo, which gave it a cozy feel.

For 25ct you could refill your drinking water. They also offered bikes for rental and advice on where to go in the city.

The very only CON is that there was no ready made coffee in the morning. There is a coffee machine though. 

Overall we really enjoyed our 1 night stay and would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants a nice and quiet getaway in "busy" Bocas.

Perfect little Oasis

We booked Panama’s paradise based on the positive reviews - I can not comprehend how the excellent reviews are not fake. The pictures posted to advertise the property are also extremely misleading. I have stayed in plenty of hostels across the world but this was the worst accommodation I have ever seen. We arrived and walked through an overgrown courtyard kind of area with rubbish all over the ground and the smell of sewerage to get to reception. We were shown our room which was so small we would not have been able to open our bags without putting them on the bed. The room was dirty, hot, had geckos and other insects in it and smelt very musty. The shared shower was basically inside a shed and was filthy. We decided to not even spend the night there. As soon as we used the wifi that barely worked to find somewhere else to stay we left the property. We were refused a refund with management stating that the pictures were an accurate description of what we had purchased. We partner also stood in animal faeces on the path leading from reception after we handed back the keys. The price they are charging for this property is appalling. Do not stay here. You will regret it!

Extremely misleading reviews 

Positives: clean cabins with hot water and decently comfortable beds. 

Negatives: Terribly noisy place - guests next door partying till 3 am, and the neighbors on the other side taking over the party till 7 am, and lots of barking dogs in between. 
The receptionist/manager, Sarah, feels that it is not her duty to address the noise issues for the comfort of her guests. After having no chance to sleep the whole night, her cynical reply was that I do not need to apologize for not staying longer! 

The walls are paper thin and the wooden floors are so poorly designed that I thought there was an earthquake when the person in the adjacent cabin was walking around.
 
Bocas Town itself is perhaps the most overrated place I ever visited: noisy, dirty, harassing...paradise lost.

Paradise lost

All that has been said in the "terrible" reviews is true. The location is in a shanty town, not pretty at all. The cabin was clean but the odors from outside could be smelled. The cabin has a tin roof and gets really hot inside. The porch looked nice (if you ignore the surrounding houses and noises) but after a couple of minutes the sewer like smells made me stand from the hammock. They have signs warning about break-ins in the cabins. We did not sleep in this place, we took a shower and left. We could not stand it. We paid the price of a nice hotel, I understand that it was new year's eve, but it is not worth it. Go somewhere else. Wrote to the management and they said that we  should have complained. Actually we tried but there wasn't anybody at the reception. Nothing the management could have done would have made me change my mind.

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