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"In the new financial and commercial center of Bogotá, you will find one of Colombia's national monuments: Hotel Casa Medina - one of city's most exclusive and elegant hotels." [Kiwi Collection]
Last Update: February 23, 2010 | Created: February 11, 2010
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57 5 664 4445
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New boutique hotel in Cartagena's Old Town, by fashion designer Silvia Tcherrasi. Located in a 250-year old mansion, Tcherrasi Hotel & Spa features "rough concrete walls married with contemporary furniture and chandeliers. There's a pool on the roof, a bijou spa and a restaurant, Vera, that's all mirrored in low lighting." [How to spend it: Travelista, February 2010]
Last Update: February 17, 2010 | Created: February 17, 2010
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"Step inside the 400-year old walls of Hotel Quadrafolio in Cartagena, and experience the sophisticated simplicity of this intimate, eight-suite casa and its cool courtyard pool." [Kiwi Collection]
Last Update: February 11, 2010 | Created: February 11, 2010
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"Soak up the sun from beautiful Barrio San Diego at the Sofitel Cartagena Santa Clara, where a 17th-century monastery is making a new name as a luxury hotspot." [Kiwi Collection]
Last Update: February 11, 2010 | Created: February 11, 2010
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Slick boutique hotel in Bogotá, located in the city's northern sector, a few blocks from the financial and business districts. The area surrounding Hotel Charleston Bogotá is home to posh restaurants, galleries and nightclubs.
Last Update: January 20, 2010 | Created: January 11, 2010
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57 5 664 86 05
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Small, intimate boutique guest house of just 8 simple-chic rooms, located in a manor house in the heart of Cartagena's Old City. La Passion Hotel offers an amazing rooftop pool and rooms with balconies.
Last Update: January 19, 2010 | Created: January 11, 2010
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A 17th century convent, converted into a "stunning" hotel by the ocean in Cartagena. Harper's Bazaar's and DailyCandy's hotel pick for Cartagena, Colombia. Rooms at Convento Santa Clara from $350.
Last Update: November 18, 2009 | Created: May 19, 2008
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The FT "...enjoyed the comfort and efficiency of the boutiquey, business-oriented Hotel Rosales Plaza in the stylish Los Rosales quarter in the north of Bogotá. This is within easy walking distance of the Zonas T and G, where most of the nightlife is." Read all about Bogota in the attached FT article.
Last Update: November 11, 2008 | Created: November 08, 2008
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Tatler says, "[Casa Pestagua] is the flavor of old Cartagena; beautiful faded frescoes, stone staircases, ridiculously high ceilings and a pool in the shade of pencil-straight palms." Huge walk-in showers, great staff.
Last Update: August 14, 2008 | Created: August 08, 2008
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Tatler comments on this posh B&B in Cartagena, "The whole place is unashamedly French in design -- simple blue and white with croissants at breakfast, bikes you can borrow and a toucan in a cage eating papaya. Fresh. calm. "
Last Update: August 11, 2008 | Created: August 08, 2008
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Tatler calls Hotel Agua "the most stylish place to stay in the city (Cartagena). It's beautiful and cool -- an utter sanctuary.... The space has been used brilliantly -- the antiques, the paintings, the shutters and the marshmallow pillows are all dreamy." Five doubles, one double duplex.
Last Update: August 08, 2008 | Created: August 08, 2008
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Harper's Bazaar's hotel pick for Cartagena if you're "feeling flush." Bazaar calls Cartagena, "A playground for the rarefied literary set: writers and groupies descend on the beautiful walled city in January when the Hay Festival spins off there." Rooms at Hotel Charleston Cartagena start at $380 a night.
Last Update: June 02, 2008 | Created: May 19, 2008
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Stylish apartments, Bazaar's pick for boutique-like digs in Cartagena. "Cartagena is most famous as the birthplace of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and just drinking sour green jeijoa juice and watching the parakeets make magic realism seem realistic." [Bazaar]
Last Update: May 19, 2008 | Created: May 19, 2008
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In July 2010, The New York Times reports that "brunch" is gaining a foothold in Bogotá and "[a] fashionable favorite is La Bagatelle, in the Holiday Inn Express Hotel which serves fusion fare to young Colombians hiding hangovers behind sunglasses. The fried egg and chorizo comes in an iron skillet, with corn arepas. Breakfast for two, 45,000 pesos." Click here for cool Bogotá restaurant and shopping tips from the NY Times article, 36 hours in Bogotá. Last Update: July 06, 2010 | Created: July 02, 2010
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In the attached article, DailyCandy picks Cartagena, Colombia as one of its "Top Ten Destinations for 2010." In Cartagena, DailyCandy suggests dinner at Club de Pesca ("order the mahimahi").
Last Update: November 13, 2009 | Created: November 11, 2009
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New, organic-oriented restaurant in Rosales, Bogota's "coolest" neighborhood. Entryway on a plaza-style market selling fresh produce. "Diners sit at the terrace café downstairs, while upstairs the atmosphere is more formal." [Black Ink, AMEX Centurion Members, Fall 2008] Try the peasant chicken.
Last Update: November 20, 2008 | Created: November 08, 2008
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Bright, modern restaurant in Bogotá, popular with the city's smart, "impeccably-dressed" lunch crowd. Owned by Peruvian star-chef Rafael Osterling. Town & Country comments in the attached article, "...His 25-deep kitchen staff expertly prepared dishes like Chilean salmon sashimi with avocado tartar sauce, crispy shrimp tempura atop a mango and Cajun spiced nut salad, roasted sea grouper in squid ink and Spanish ham broth, and tender lomo saltado with pisco and black-beer perfume."
Last Update: September 15, 2008 | Created: September 10, 2008
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"Largely considered the city's [Bogotá's] most exclusive restaurant and run with much love by Cartagena-born chef Leonar Espinosa, known for her coastal home-cooked dishes." [Town & Country] Check out the YouTube video. Get other restaurant tips for Bogotá in the attached Town & Country article.
Last Update: September 10, 2008 | Created: September 10, 2008
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According to Tatler, La Vitrola is the "coolest" restaurant in Cartagena. "It's like Rick's Café in Casablanca meets the diner in Back to the Future -- timelessly, out-of-seasonally fabulous." Try the "dreamy" coconut cake. Foodies might want to check out two other top/trendy restaurants in Cartagena, Palma and 8-18. Click here for their details and to read an October 2008, New York Times article on Cartagena's burgeoning culinary scene. Click here for a May 2010 NYT article with more cool Cartagena travel tips. Last Update: August 15, 2008 | Created: August 08, 2008
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