La Casona de Getsemani, Cartagena, November 2022 The staff were great, friendly, knowledgeable. 24 hour desk clerk. The cleaning and maintenance staff worked harder than any I have ever seen. There is huge construction going on at the back of the hotel. Looks like that will be quite awhile. Seem to work regular business hours. There was not-before-see amount of flooding the day I arrived, and for two days after. The water was more than 12" in the street in front of the hotel, just lapping at the hotel floor. When the power went out the staff had a generator going within a few hours. The room given to me when I arrived was up one flight of stairs. It was very small, the bed touched walls on three sides. I rechecked the photos on the website, this room was not in any of the pictures. The noise in the hostel was unending. The partying in the street ends around 2-3am. The noise from inside the hostel did not end, but did quiet down around 5:00am. The families with children were up by 6:00am, the cleaning staff starts at 6:30. So there was a good hour, 1.5 hours for sleep. I asked for a got a quieter room the next day. That room is also not in the pictures. It was on the third floor, right outside the gathering area. Three nights running I had to ask the people socializing to go to bed, 2am, 1am, 11:30 (4 nights on short sleep was making me react faster). No enforcement on quiet hours, I did ask. Great location to be in the thick of it, but as a solo woman traveller I was not comfortable going for a walk after dark. Taxis could solve that concern. Pros: right in the walled city. Staff were lovely. Cons: there is no quiet place to sleep. While the third floor is quieter, there is still enough noise through the dark hours to wake a dead-to-the-world sleeper like me. Some solo women travelers may need taxis in and out of the area after dark.
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