Name: Panaka Hostal
Address: Calle Belen 347, Cuzco, Cuzco, Cuzco, lima51, Peru
Rating: 8

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Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport

Panaka Hostal

Cuzco

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Panaka is an expensive hostel for what it is, very simple rooms with lamps with no where to plug them into. 

Our first night our room was not ready and they moved me into a room and then had me move the next day. This was annoying after 30 hours of travel. 

We stayed for about a week and during we did the 4 day Inca trail. When we got back they stated they were working on pipes and had to move us to a different hotel. After being awake for over 18 hours and hauling all of our 6 suitcases into a random arranged ‘taxi’ (not an offical taxi or Uber) we arrived to a hotel that had no hot water and the loudest people I’ve ever heard. 

When we got back to Panaka the next day, there seemed to be no works and people coming out of our payed room. They were not working on pipes, they had overbooked us and moved us even after we had payed. Very unprofessional. 

The rooms smell like sewage and there is only one PowerPoint in the bathroom. When we got back from the Inca trail, my parents room had no working 
PowerPoints.

The staff are very friendly and helpful, but did not speak English (this is fine tho!) and the laundry service is expensive. Go somewhere else to do your laundry. 

The staff did look after our baggage whilst we did the Inca trail, and there are security. The beds are warm and comfortable and the shower has nice hot water. The rooms were very clean. 

The breakfast service is very simple, tea coffee and juice and some bread etc. 

Overall, not a bad stay but a bit disappointed with how they moved us around.

Nothing exciting

The hotel defibately has some areas of improvement, but the hotel staff is so welcoming it offsets some of the problems.

We stayed in a triple on the 4th floor to start. The wifi was non-existent up there and the bathroom was so small I had to duck the whole time I showered (I'm only 6'). Our second stay was a double on the 3rd floor and the wifi worked perfectly. The breakfast is mostly breads and one hot dish. The minimal breakfast is fine, but there were too many times where empty dishes or coffee sat for 10 minutes or more. Kinda frustrating when you're trying to get out the door to go on tours.

Like I said the staff is super friendly even though most don't speak English. They also held our bags during our 5 day trek and when we arrived after they had already placed them in our room for us. Great service!

3.5/5 stars

This is not a flash hotel but it has everything you need for a nice few nights and is perfectly acceptable for the price.
Great central location without being a noisy location. Near San Pedro markets and the Super mercado. A short walk from the central square. 5 min or less by taxi to the train station.
Reception staff were soooo super helpful and friendly despite not knowing much English. They used google translate to make sure they understood and so did I.
They gave good directions and booked early morning taxis.
Breakfast was not huge but there was a good variety and it was yummy.
The rooms at the front of the hotel have an interesting street view and once the businesses shut it is quiet. The room I stayed in was really large with room easily for 3-4 people with luggage.
The second time I stayed I got a room next to the stairs. This was half the size and would have been squeezy but not undoable if there was 2 people. The only window looked onto the stairwell so I kept the blinds closed. It was a little noisy late at night with guests chatting as they went up the stairs.

Reception staff so helpful and sweet. Central location

So this was our first time in Cusco, we arrived without securing a hotel to begin with. So that was our bad. Coming from visiting a virtually unknown town of chiclayo, we thought the hotels/ hostales to be of better quality due to the tourist attention it gets. At the airport there were two, reasonably priced, hotels kiosks. The other one was $600/night.  The representative from Panaka charged us about S/. 130 soles /night. We were planning to be there two nights. When my cousin arrived and spoke to them, they charged him S/ 100 soles / night. Anyway, pros: helped arranged tours and transportation. They had nice thick blankets For added warmth. Spacious beds. Everything was clean. Complimentary,tasty, breakfast and plenty of tea leaves.  Cons: at the airport, they told us the rooms would be ready upon arrival, we got there, we waited 2 hours, also, they had complementary "breakfast", we asked if we could go up, they said No. We waited. The bathroom in the lobby was clean, except they had a dirty mop with dirty water in the corner. The smell was horrendous to me( I had altitude sickness), fiancée said it wasn't that bad for him ( no altitude sickness). The bathroom in our bedroom had issues: it was small, I'm 5'4 and my kneels touched the wall when sitting on the toilet. If you're taller, may need to maneuver a bit.  Very smelly.   The shower divider was slanted, the shower curtain was too short;  it didn't prevent the water from spilling. The water spilled all over the tile floor and into the bedroom if you didn't place any towels on the floor. They had a shower mat, but it suctioned my flip flop so hard, I had trouble lifting it out place.  Overall, I would have given it a better rating, except they were judicious as who gets oxygen. My cousin asked to get oxygen, but was was denied. The receptionist said he didn't look sick, turns out he had a heart attack a few years back, and felt like it would have helped. Also, no theres  elevator for people with mobility issues. 
FYI: altitude sickness feels like you're super hungover while trying to breathe while running. Tea tree essential oil helps with the smelly bathrooms.

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