Hotel La Amistad Inn
Bed & Breakfast (Garni)
Best value for the money, German owned and operated
| Our nice and cozy mansion is situated in Barrio Amon and Otoya, the only polution and noise free hotel and tourism area in central San Jose. It is just a 7 minute walk from the "Plaza de la Cultura", the Center of San Jose. |
| This remodelled and expanded mansion contains 32 rooms in three different sizes and categories. All 32 rooms have private bathrooms with hot water, queen-size bed with orthopedic mattress, telephone, ceiling fan, and Cable-TV with HBO, CNN, ESPN etc. Some rooms have additional writing desks and the 3 suites have a refrigerator. We have 7 rooms with 2 queen-size beds! |  |
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| New Features: As part of an extensive remodeling, we have converted to Card Key door locks and have added new electronic-coded, in-room safes. While most hotels charge extra for an in-room safe, at La Amistad there is no additional charge along with the advantage of not having to carry a key. |  |
| Internet Access: We have also created an Internet Cafe, where guests can rent a computer with E-Mail and Internet access for $6 for the first hour or less and $3 for each additional half hour. |  |
| Tour Information: The hotel owner runs the hotel himself and gives qualified tour information to his guests. What ever your travel needs are, we can help you in planning your trips and help you get there. Best of all, we give you a 10% discount on most of the organized tours. All tours start right at our door step, so you don t have to worry about anything. |  |
| Rent A Car: We work with all major Rent a Car companies and can quickly arrange your car. All companies will deliver the car to the hotel or pick you up at the hotel and take you to their car pool. For your safty we strongly advise booking only 4 wheel drive cars. Roads are extremely bad and there is a deductable on all Rent a Cars of about $800 - to $1.000! |
| New B & B Makes Guests Feel 'At Home' By John Liang
A new bed & breakfast, Hotel La Amistad Inn, joins the list of B&B's in the area around the new National Arts and Culture Center in downtown San José. The center's opening spearheads changes to the landscape around Morazán Park, with plans in the works to put all telephone and power lines underground and to shunt noisy buses to the Uruca road northwest of San José. The neighborhood will offer people a more relaxed, less noisy area. Wolfgang Hilbich decided to buy the B&B two years ago to take advantage of the area's changing atmosphere. The original had only six rooms, so Hilbich invested $500,000 to buy the property and add another 16. The affable German developed the idea of acquiring a bed and breakfast during two years of travel following the divorce. A businessman for 18 years in Costa Del Sol, Spain, he sold his business interests there and traveled around Central and South America. Staying at B&B's with varying levels of quality. "During my travels, I always liked the intimacy of B&B's, and as I stayed in them, began to notice that some places lacked certain things, like reading lamps or other necessities," he said. "It was then that I began to think about starting my own B&B, a place where folks could feel comfortable and at home."
Hilbich, who speaks German, Spanish, English and Portuguese, feels that his customers should never feel alone, as one tends to feel in the bigger hotel chains. The "at home" feeling is enhanced by the camaraderie he shares with his six staff, who in turn, he says, share it with the customers. La Amistad Inn is in the neighborhood of Barrio Otoya, on Avenida 11 and Calle 15, near Morazán Park. Yellow columns gird the entrance and the reception area has a covered patio. Red ceramic tile lines the floors and the ceilings are made of wood. Breakfast is served in the patio German-country style, with a different hot dish everyday, fresh fruits, and unlimited coffee and bread. Rooms vary from standard singles at $25 a night to deluxe suites with kitchenettes and sitting areas at $60 a night. Every room has one or two queen-size beds with orthopedic mattresses, private bathrooms with hot water and 40-channel cable TV. The Inn offers safety deposit boxes, rent-a-car service and one-day laundry service. Courtesy of THE TICO TIMES; May 6, 1994 |
| Address: We are located at Calle 15, Avenida 11 Taxi Directions: 100 metros al Oeste del Hospital Calderon Guardia, Entrada de Emergencia. Show this to the taxi driver! Cancellation Policy: One week before - No charge Less than one week or no show, one night will be charged. Please make all cancellations only by E-Mail or Fax, so we can reconfirm them to you and avoid any inconvenience to our Guests! |
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