Here’s a view of the Hotel La Sin Ventura in Antigua. Looks colonial on the outside and feels like a 60s motel on the inside and sounds like a latino disco at night. It’s clean and had very friendly and helpful staff. All that for only $55 a night. I’d stay there again.
After wandering around Antigua for the morning, we took a shuttle to Panajacel and caught a boat to Santiago. One thing we learned is that we’re not good at refusing men who want to guide us and carry our bags (and want to be paid for it) and we’re absolute pushovers when bargaining on prices.
Late afternoon we arrived at Santiago and we’re quickly “hustled” along to a tuktuk who took us out of town to Dave and Mary’s house. Despite Mary’s map and clear instructions, we missed a key detail and had the tuktuk go too far. Then the young driver used his phone to call Vicky and quickly got his bearings and ended up carrying Angie’s bag through the cornfield to Vicki and Tom’s home. He was so kind and sweet and helpful, suddenly the inflated price (30 Q) seemed insufficient and Angie ended up giving him more.
Vicki showed us around and then made us supper and Tom has offered to take us to the market tomorrow. The house is beautiful -I’ll post a picture of our “bedroom on the roof” and our view.
Love the blog. This place looks just beautiful!