Cosmopolitano Hotel Boutique

A highlight of surprising Santa Cruz was our accommodation ... the Cosmopolitan Boutique Hotel, where the word boutique is deserved. Our three course designer breakfast was beautiful, the room was chic, the lobby is also the popular cafe, Doble Chocolate, the staff are a joy, especially Franklin on his first day. The murals are gorgeous and special, as is the entire property, which spans a city street.

When you enter in the hotel you don’t find the reception, because it doesn’t exist. You are in a bar and the check in happens with the bar cashier. There is no elevator, so you climb with your luggage on the open air staircase. As it’s raining you reach your room already wet. Convenient, as you can skip the shower now. The room has no windows and receives light from a hole in the wall beside the door. Which must be kept screened all the time as every body passes by on the other side of the glass. The screen saves you from the people but not from the noise coming from the very frequented bar downstairs, that helps you improve your culture by keeping you awake and reading. You are helped waking up if you forget to set up the alarm by the conversations of others guests as they are having their early morning, 6 am, breakfast four meters under you in the open air space beside the staircase. The worst accommodation I experienced in the last thirty years of touristic traveling.

Hotel bello, comodo, pulito e molto accogliente. Personale gentilissimo. Abbiamo richiesto un late check out, che è stato veramente comodo, perchè avevamo l'aereo la sera. Si poteva anche mangiare al piano base dell'hotel, senza bisogno di andare a cercare un ristorante, peccato che avessero sempre poche porzioni di quello che potevo mangiare. Comunque molto consigliato, ci torneremmo sicuramente.