Excerpt from 2002/09 EastCoastDude - Living it up in Peru

Hotel and Casino Boulevard
Address: Av. Jose Pardo 771 Miraflores.
Phone number: 444-6562/63/64
Website: http://www.hotelboulevard.com.pe

Once again posted $89 and quoted $50 a night. Very nice place. Did not look at the rooms. Guests were acceptable but frowned upon. No reply about the guest fee. Right on the main drag in Miraflores. Traffic noise would be a problem.

Excerpt from 2002/10 Excat - Bare Eyes

Hotel Boulevard, 3-star or higher
Ave. Jose Pardo 771
511-444-6562
boulevard@amauta.rcp.net.pe
www.hotelboulevard.com.pe for $89 total

Hello. RT here.

I stayed at the Hotel Boulevard for 5 days last week. The hotel is OK -- the rooms are pretty much like the ones we have here in an Embassy Suites, just a little smaller. I paid $50 for my room (price quoted via email), including a free, but pretty lame, breakfast. I had no problem with street noise -- somehow, very few of the rooms faced the street. Chicas are OK with documento, they warn that you are charged a $10 guest fee, but I had a visitor every night and was only hit up once on the final bill.

It may have helped that I bought the desk staff sandwiches one night.

The minibar prices were through the roof, as were the price for calls to cell phones (numbers starting with '9'). Local calls were $0.22 plus taxes. However, the supermarket is right next door and open until 1:30 in the morning, so I just filled the refrigerator with my own stuff. A 10 Sole tip to the maid got me all the towels I wanted and my clothes that were laying around folded every day.

There was a business center in the lobby, and you can take the network cable out of their PC and put it in your laptop for internet access. This hotel was not a Speedy Wi-Fi location.

All in all, I would probably stay there again. The only real down side was the 5-10 minute walk to the Kennedy Park/Pizza Alley area, but it is a safe walk, and only $1 by taxi, if you're lazy.

Oh, and there's no casino there.

RT

(Message edited by rtgooch on July 12, 2005)

RT here. This just in.

So there I am in the business center, plugging in the cable wire from their PC to my laptop, and the girl from the front desk comes and asks if I want internet in my room.

"Sure," I say.

Well then, go upstairs, she tells me. The guy will be by with a network cable for you.

Sure enough, he shows up three minutes later, and here I am, typing away from my room. The connection is even in a convienent place. I don't know what, if anything, I will be paying for the pivilege, but this hotel hasn't been all that greedy, so I'm not counting on getting hurt all that much. I will report back when I get the bill.

OK, I'm home and have a copy of my bill.

I was charged $10 once for a guest (I had two -- one each night). I was also charged $8.80 for something, but I can't figure out what. Also there was a $9 charge for the network cable, which was reversed when I gave it back.

But I don't think I paid any of that stuff. My final tab for the two nights was $118.80. Here's the breakdown:

2 Nights @$50 = $100.00
8% credit card fee = $8.00
Subtotal = $108.00
10% Service = $10.80
Total = $118.80

I don't quite get it, but I paid and they thanked me and asked me to come back again. I will, I guess.

RT here.

Upon checkout this morning, my bill for the five nights came to an even $250. The detail of the bill had a 10% service charge, so I was 'only' charged $45.45 per night, plus service charges.

So the moral here is to ask what the $50 includes when you are quoted the price.

The staff there also made no snotty comments that I had a 19-year-old checking in and living with me for the entire week. One of the bellman even helped me look for her at the supermarket next door when she disappeared with the room key.

I suppose that it doesn't hurt that once per trip I bring in something to eat for the night staff when I get in at night. Eats for five runs something like $10 and gets a whole lot more than that in good will.