Riohacha hotels

Pros: Everything, we were there another night, highly recommended

Pros: The hotel is cosy. Claudia and Glen the owners could not be nicer, delicious breakfast each day, fresh tropical fruit, eggs, toast or rolls, plus juice and coffee. Glen is a very good chef we had a nice lunch. Great location and great value!. Highly recommended.

Pros: Authentic, homely, privacy in a noisy city, tranquille but friendly with all the staff and digs and family attending to us.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Beautiful comfortable rooms, mine had a balcony with a swing chair. Beautiful courtyard. Early check in. Location was about a 5.min walk from beach and area felt safe.

Cons: Nothing!

Pros: The room was very spacious and even had a hair dryer. Good location just 3 minutes from Malecon and beach. Fantastic owners who were so attentive for anything I needed. Thank you

Cons: The room was just next the reception so it was a bit noisy. And also had a noise coming from the air con fan

Pros: the people and service were very helpful to us, we slept well and had a good breakfast

Cons: there werent many eating options close to the hotel

Pros: Staff are nice with good manners. Pleasured to be here with them.

Pros: Very kind people, good breakfast and very good value for money

Cons: The location was bit perfect but still close to the beach

Pros: Our stay at Casa Patio Bonita was good. The staff are friendly and helpful. There are a number of dogs in the property who are very friendly, but one of them pees on the floor a lot - if you don't like dogs it's worth knowing.But the hotel is in a great location - central for work meetings and near the beach for restaurants.

Cons: The wifi at the property doesn't work - we raised this with the owner and said it doesn't work for a lot of guests. So that was quite frustrating for us as we had to hotspot off our phones for multiple days.

Pros: The guesthouse is so pretty and very well run. The staff could not have been more helpful. The room was big and very comfortable beds. Great breakfast. It was also very secure. Couldn’t recommend highly enough.

Pros: Very comfortable and has great rooftop terrace!

Pros: Trip to Punta Gallinas is good.

Cons: Very hot in Riohacha so in an ideal world aircon would be good. Heat reduced from fans and window being open in room.

Pros: This is a bright and clean place, with very good kitchen, weekly acoustic live music (at least) and a helpful staff, including the owner whose presence on premises is always good in hostels.

Pros: Located in a residential neighborhood. Beatrice, the Italian owner, is very friendly and helpful. Muy recomendado!

Pros: The tour to Puntas Gallinas is great!

Cons: The room was really warm

Pros: It was an overall amazing stay. All of the staff is very friendly and helpful. They help me find a new Punta Gallinas tour as the one organized by them did not run the day I could go due to low demand. They also let me keep most of my stuff between my two stays before and after the tour. Facilities are beautiful including a terrace and a clean bathroom (including a bathtub) in the 8 person dorm.

Cons: Only improvement would be air conditioner and offering breakfast.

Pros: The Italian touch of the property makes the difference for guests: availability of kitchen with basic food (tea, herbal teas and coffee), cleanliness of all ambients shining on the whole white floors and walls, very nice staff with lots of suggestions and advices for visits and places where to eat or go. It was like being at a friend place

Cons: Nothing.

Pros: Great staff, super chill and quiet, clean and the tour they offer is amazing!

Pros: Lovely people especially Sasha and just a nice clean well functioning hostel in Riohacha and with the taxi prices being fixed (going anywhere in the city has a fixed price) the location of the hostel is not a big deal that it’s not next to the beach or whatever. Cool place

Pros: Very friendly helpful staff. The hostel is clean and has lovely common areas. Our private room was really comfortable and good value (its worth paying the extra for air con). Hostel is in a safe residential area near the stadium - there are some brilliant food trucks round the corner. Highly recommend.

Cons: We had a double room directly next the kitchen, therefore it was VERY noise, you could here every word or sound in the kitchen. When we stayed there, the staff has a little party and they were talking until late in the night so we were not really able to sleep. This was not the best start for an exhausting trip to Punta Gallinas.

Pros: It’s clean (someone seems to be mopping all the time) and central i Riohacha and gives lots of information of tours or if you want to organise own travel - although would be good for all the info to be in English too. Can leaves bags there for free. Good juices (that you pay extra for)

Cons: Maybe just me but I don’t get the high ratings. The pool was really murky so no one was swimming in it. The breakfast not great - pre packaged pancakes. The staff seem annoyed every time I wanted to ask a question. I speak simple Spanish and they would sigh if I ever asked them to repeat something. I saw one French girl (who speaks fluent Spanish) leave because she was unhappy with the service. I was meant to stay two nights but cut it to one and went somewhere much better.

Pros: What I liked most of all was the efficient way that check-in was handled.I forget the young lady;s name but,within 5 minutes of arriving at the Hostel,I had checked in,was shown to my room AND had organised a trip to Cabo de la Vela for the following day.The trip to Cabo de la Vela was the main reason for visiting Riohacha.I was very impressed.Added to that was the fact that my room was super clean and the staff were super friendly.Furthermore,on my first night there I met the lovely owner.He was SO friendly and had lots of time to talk to me.As a solo traveller this is important to me....All in all a great experience and worthy of 10 out of 10.

Cons: I LIKED EVERYTHING !!!

Pros: Breakfast Good bed Well furnished room Swimming pool

Pros: Best Hostel weve had in Colombia! Stayed twice. - Best WiFi in Colombia, Free printing (2 sheets), great rooftop terrace in their main location (where you eat breakfast and if you want dinner), very short walk between both locations so that having breakfast in the other one is totally fine, very fast laundry service!

Pros: This is a very well run and thought out hostel. The staff is friendly and helpful. There’s a book with what to see in town, tours to the far north, and how to get to the far north on your own in Spanish and English. The beds are comfortable and each has a curtain, a fan, a light and an outlet. The breakfast is excellent.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Perfect location. Helpful staffs. Good kitchen. Clean room and bathroom. Every bed has on their own light and outlet.

Cons: There is an small air condition which means it could not make cool. It’s a little bother to go to another hostel to have breakfast.

Pros: Nice staff, possibility to enjoy La Quinta Amentinites (pool and rooftop)

Cons: I would recommend to stay in La Quinta instead

Pros: Straight forward hostel, perfect place to start or end your Guajira tour (which you can book at the reception). Dorms have lockers, privacy curtains and personal light and fan, which is nice. Also there is a/c, which is much needed in Riohacha.

Cons: There is not a big area to chill, some chairs and couch at reception. You can visit the other Bona Vida hostel for free, there is a swimming pool. It’s three blocks away. If you stay for more than one night, I would recommend to stay at that one.

Cons: Thr room was great and the wifi was consistent.

Pros: The room was nice and clean, as well as the bathroom the staff was nice too, and the common parts are really cute, even though we had a 3 min walk to go were the bar and the pool are (the hostels is divided into two parts). The dinner was really cool, they cooked fajitas and we would just make our own burrito. It was a nice stay

Pros: Hotel was in good position between seafront and town plaza. Hotel was very modern and good sized very clean rooms. Breakfast was very good. Staff very helpful and friendly.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Great location

Cons: Poor facilities

Pros: Nice staff Spacious rooms Wifi, tasty breakfast Laundry service

Pros: good location and very friendly staff. also good price. and everything was very clean.

Cons: the room didn’t have a window, only a very small one in the bathroom.

Pros: Friendly hosts & very clean.

Pros: Staff was really nice and friendly. They waited for us until 1am for the check in as our bus was delayed. Really clean rooms, good breakfast

Pros: Close to the beach, good internet and nice breakfast. They also kept our luggage while we were away for a couple of days.

Cons: At arrival time they charged 15.000 additional VAT which was mentioned in the booking on the website. The room was quite small.

Pros: Location. Cozy environment, it looks like a family run hotel.

Cons: Small bathroom and no hot water.

Pros: No hot water in shower

Pros: For our family it was perfect to stay one night. Next day, first hour, we went to the northern part of La Guajira

Pros: Very good price Relaxing Convenient Frendly family

Pros: Beautiful hostel run by a family win lots of care and love. A friendly welcoming environment with a nice terrace to relax in the evening.

Pros: Everything was perfect, location, facilities and position. I strongly recommended the tour organised by Christian for La Guajira.

Pros: Great hostel with air condition and nice location.

Pros: Everything it’s very clean and organized. Family owned business. Very nice staff.

Pros: they have been so super friendly and helpful with everything. spotless place. near the beach. 100% recommendable.

Pros: Confortable

Pros: Amazing rooftop & location. Good price. Good bed, good WiFi.

Cons: There was no information about breakfast times (7-9am). We came 15 minutes late. The woman preferred to talk on the phone instead of talking to me telling me finally that booking provides this information...which it does not. I think it's possible to solve this problem in a friendlier way. We didn't have breakfast finally. The shower was a bit smelly due to humidity.

Pros: Location

Cons: No towels, no vibe

Pros: The place is nice, the room had AC, it is well located. Shared bathrooms were ok.

Pros: Very very clean (you could eat on the ground). The staff is super friendly and helpful. By mistake we booked a single room but it was no problem to change at the last minute. She helped us to book our trip to Cabo de la Vela and took care of everything, including keeping our bags and offering us to take a shower when we came back. She also arranged our trip to Valledupar.

Cons: The breakfast was rather basic.

Pros: The owner was very helpful and the staff very friendly

Pros: Very open-hearted welcome and great help to organize the flamingo trip. Surreal landscape, quite an experience. They just made us feel comfy. Plus we left with the feeling to have supported a bit the indigenous community and the natural resort.

Cons: A simple and beautiful place with solitude, if you like this there's nothing to complain about. But it is rather a poor region, one should be aware of this.

Pros: Excellent setting, great cuisine, particularly friendly people, very, very laid back!

Pros: good conversation with the locals.

Cons: it was really remote and we were told it wasn't safe to move round on your own. so you're kind of stuck there. Some of the Wayuu really are insistent on selling you tours and it was hard for me to explain I wasn't interested.

Pros: Beach is just in front of the remanso, the natural scenery is unique

Cons: Rooms are comfortable but don’t expect four stars amenities

Pros: Very clean, clam and confortable. Nice people works in the hotel.

Pros: Looks way better in reality than on the fotos Clean and spacious rooms

Pros: New facility owned and operated by a very nice family. Booking.com had the wrong address on their system. Pool was clean and the children really liked it.

Pros: The hotel has a large swimming pool and shaded cabana area. Great for families. A high wall surrounds the grounds and access is via a secured gate. That said, we enjoyed our wander to the Olympic super market - direct is a five minute walk. It’s a good location to pick up snacks, water, etc. There are few restaurants nearby so the hotel offers menus for a couple that deliver.

Pros: The hotel is outside of the center in a quiet neighborhood, a taxi will take you in 5 min to the Malecón, it’s new, very comfortable and has a nice swimming pool, very clean.

Pros: Lovely place. Really nice, welcoming staff. The hotel is like an oasis of tranquility in the busy noisy town. Big, clean rooms, with good AC, hot water, comfortable bed. Breakfast is one of the best I had in Colombia- fresh cold fruits, juice, coffee, cheese, eggs, fresh made arepas. They have pool and jacuzzi- didn't try them, but they looked clean and well maintained. I just liked to relax under the mango trees listening to the birds.

Cons: Can't think of anything.

Pros: The rooms are newly furnished and the breakfast was good. We also were allowed to park at the hotel for 2 days while in the Alta Guajira.

Cons: The pool is newly constructed. Perfect for kids. However, it should have been cleaner.

Pros: Nice swimming pool, beautiful garden, friendly staff. Rooms are new and spacious, aircon is silent and efficient.

Cons: Small breakfast. Still going on repairs and construction works, noise. One night the water in the shower was cold. Quite expensive for what you get. Far from the beach and no restaurants around - you need a taxi to get anywhere (and taxi drivers don't know this place).

Pros: Besides the fact that the neighborhood is not ok, the rest is great.

Cons: It is located in the middle of a low income neighborhood, far from the beach and all thw attractions.

Pros: The hotel is very modern and feels luxury. The pool and courtyard are very pleasant. Staff is very helpfull and friendly. It is a really nice place to relax for a few days. Quiet location. Hot shower is also nice. Taxis in town have a flat rate. Some taxi drivers I had to guide with my gps maps because hotel is not in the center.

Cons: There was no instruction for television. Complicated system

Pros: The mango trees everywhere, the friendliness of the staff

Cons: The location. It’s not so close to the centre and the surroundings when arriving from the airport are not so good

Pros: Wonderful family owned business - super friendly and helpful. Very convinient stay before or after a Puntas Galinas Tour. Wish we had more time to stay there!

Pros: Nice and clean

Cons: Far from centrum

Cons: The BREAKFAST, the host and her family.

Pros: Amazingly warm and friendly hosts.

Cons: Too far from anything of interest, including restaurants. Hard to get a taxi. Weak internet connection.

Pros: Staff really kind and helpful

Cons: Location was not the best, the neighborhood wasn't safe.

Pros: Slept well, had a quiet room, always a staff member around and great TV. Room sorted every day. Staff friendly and helpful.

Cons: Shower curtain needed to be longer, the whole floor got soaked, Needed a toilet seat and cover, was worried about dropping things down the pan. Toilet flush handle didn't work, we took the box lid off to flush it.

Pros: The hotel is pretty close to the place where I had to catch the transport to Macao next morning.

Cons: There was no eating facilities that night.

Pros: Lovely staff

Cons: No kitchen or sitting area

Pros: Very nice staff that explained to me how to make a trip to Cabo de la Vela and kept my big backpack during that trip

Pros: Staff were excellent. Manager was super friendly and helpful.

Cons: Location was horrible. The street stank and as I was a lone female traveller I felt a little unsafe walking down the hotel road in the evening.

Pros: Iván and his family are great hosts. Very friendly and helpful.

Pros: Very friendly hosts, good location on the way to Cabo de la Vela (shared transport leaves right from the corner), however there is only 20 min walking to the beach. Room is clean, spacious. You can leave your luggage for a couple of days.

Pros: Hotel was very close to the collectivos to Uribia. Staff was very nice and helpfull. Room was clean.

Cons: Nothing, we were there just for two nights (one night before and one night after our trip to Cabo de la Vela and Punta Gallinas). For that, it's perfect.

Pros: Nice and flexible staff. We could use the kitchen for 3-4 days. Very central for the city Riohacha itself (but not much if you just want to go to the beach or the plaza mayor), and just in front (10 meters) of the main road and the « taxis » going up North to Alta Guajira (Uribia, Cabo, Punta Gallina). 10-15m walk from the beach, 20min from the main mall/supermarkets. Anyway you might reach those locations in couple of minutes with moto-taxis (1000-2000 COP per moto per way)

Cons: A bit far from beach and plaza mayor. And the continuous noise due to main road, might be annoying...

Pros: We liked the cleanliness of the room and the staff was nice (they tried to search a tour for us and helped us with the transport to our next destination)

Cons: It was sometimes a little hard to communicate with the staff; a reason could be the language barriers.

Pros: The hosts were friendly and the room was very clean. It’s not far from the bus terminal and the collectivos to Uribia (where you change for Cabo) leave right in front of the hostel

Cons: The hostel does not offer food or drinks and there is no common area

Pros: We came to stay for a night on our way up to Punta Gallinas and ended up staying for four as my partner became ill. The staff went above and beyond to help us, taking me to the chemist to buy medication, and constantly checking he was OK. The room we stayed in was fantastic – very new with a private bathroom, air conditioning and loads of space. The staff advised us on the best way to get to Punta Gallinas (you can get a collectivo right outside the hostel to Uribia, from there you take another car to Cabo de la Vela). Thank you for everything!

Pros: Staff , comfort, clean, location!

Cons: Nothing!

Pros: Economic option in good location.

Cons: Noisy, especially in the (early) mornings, window is to the corridor.

Pros: The staff is very nice and helpfull. Room is clean and the departure for Cabo de la vela is just in front

Pros: The staff has been very kind and helpful

Pros: Stayed there before and after the trip to Punta Gallinas - the friendly young lady at the reception even organised us the transport etc. Highly recommended!!

Pros: Nice and helpful staff

Cons: Wifi was weak in my room

Pros: I liked the room temperature, the service from the staff and the cleanliness of the room

Cons: I didn't like the breakfast, it was quite simple, also the internet connection was not good at my room, it was too far away for my computer.

Pros: Nice service and treatment.

Cons: Their wasn't anything. The treatment was verry kind and helpfull.

Pros: It was a nice hostel with a good vibe, friendly staff, nice chillout place. It is next to the beach so ideal for kiting.

Cons: Catch is that there is a lot of noise in the night, I believe there is a partyplace next door.

Pros: Cheap for 15k

Cons: Check-in took 45min, dorms are in steel containers

Pros: There is a Kite school in the hostel. The staff is very helpful and can help organized a tour to capo de la vela

Pros: The location is perfect. Amazing view from the roof terrace over the beach, sunsets and chillout in the hammocks. The staff is very friendly and helps you to organize trips around here and to cabo de la vela. I really liked this hostel. Great vibe.

Pros: Staff is very nice and welcoming

Cons: Cleanliness of the room could be improved