Villavieja hotels

Pros: This is a very nice place to stay when visiting the desert. The room was clean and had good airconditioning, which is nice for the afternoon heat. The breakfast and the courtyard where you get the breakfast are also beautiful. The staff was friendly and very helpful.

Pros: A lovely place to stay in Villavieja. Enrique was an incredible host, and went far out of his way to make sure that we had a nice stay. The breakfast was also delicious!

Pros: Comfortable rooms with much needed aircon. Nice breakfast. Staff were really helpful with planning activities.

Cons: Nowhere to relax other than in your room.

Pros: Great service attitude

Cons: Should work on fixing the AC's

Pros: The room was clean, the staff were very nice and helped us plan our trip to the tatacoa desert.

Cons: There isnt much to do in villavieja the town and there are opn option for good food. However, its not the hostels problem.

Pros: The hotel is well situated at near the center of the little village of Villavieja. Stuff is very friendly and helpful, the place a really good equiped and clean. Good breakfast! Recommendation!

Pros: Booked it because of the good reviews here. Most expensive accomodation We had in Columbia. Comfy bed, clean bathroom With only cold water. WiFi.

Cons: Booked also the Tour With them because of the good reviews. The price changed the next morning before the Tour started. Suddenly the Observatorium Was Not included anymore (what i explicitly had asked for the evening before. But it Was denied in the morning). Wouldn't book a guide next time. Only tuktuk transportation for the Day. Floor in the room was dirty. No mosquito nets!

Pros: The hotel was new and comfortable. The air con worked well and the staff were friendly and helpful. I would return.

Cons: Only complaint was the breakfast. We were told it would be basic, and it was, that's fine, in most places in Colombia the breakfast is basic but my eggs were almost inedible. It won't stop me from going back

Pros: À really good hotel for villavieja. Everything was clean. They let us use their kitchen and the owner was really nice with us.

Cons: The bed a bit hard!

Pros: Friendly staff, small kitchen with fridge, tour guide / transportation around, nice garden

Pros: - Nice swimming pool - Good location - Very peaceful - Plenty of restaurants within walking distance

Cons: - No hot water available

Pros: Staff very nice and helpful. Swimming pool and bedrooms simple but clean and functional. Nice garden.

Cons: Cold water in the shower Fan too strong on the lowest position

Pros: Great attention by the staff, breakfast and dinner were good, the bed so new and comfortable, the room too clean. And allowed to check in before the exact time. :)

Cons: The cost is quite high. The lunch is about 24k cop

Pros: Position was great, right in the middle of the desert. The small houses are delicious and clean. The first night we saw a ant bear right on our patio. Wonderful.

Cons: The price was a little too high considering the overall services. For that price I’d expect to have the room cleaned every day. No English speaking but in Colombia is always like this.

Pros: The location is amazing, in the middle of the desert, really quiet. The equipments are great (especially the pool given the heat and the net to watch the stars). Overall, it’s a great place to stay, very welcoming and not something we are used to see.

Pros: Beautiful location! The pool. Good and much food. Very clean, notably the shared bathrooms and showers, probably due to the fact that there are many! Friendly staff.

Cons: Sometimes a little bit complicated to speak with the staff if your Spanish is limited.

Pros: Friendly and helpful staff. isolated from the nearest city, so you can spot the stars easily .

Pros: The people here are trying very hard. Due to airline woes we arrived much later than expected and they were fine with that. The location is pleasantish although a long hike from the main road. There's kind of a shortcut trail to the observatory, which is useful, but don't try it at night.

Cons: A lot about this place is quite unprofessional. You can't have dogs with fleas running in and out of the kitchen and scraping their butts on the floor of the restaurant. It's madness to make people walk past your stinky chicken coop just to get to the pool. It's darn inconvenient to have an access road that is impassable when it rains because it turns into a bog. It's weird to have bathrooms that are so small you can't even turn around in them.

Pros: Stay in the dessert with some more comfort. Really nice swimmingpool, where you definitely want to cool down from the heat of the dessert. Staff is friendly.

Cons: You're in the middle of the dessert and the rooms are not totally closed. There might be soms small insects or animals in your room. But there are mosquito nets.

Pros: Staf was very friendly and helpful! They brought us to another breakfast place when next door was too busy. It’s well worth paying a bit extra for air conditioning.

Cons: It’s expensive for what it was.

Pros: Extremely helpful and competent staff. Organised us our trip to the desert and back to Neiva. Room was clean and the food in the Hotel Restaurant was good too.

Pros: Very warm attention from the staff. Nice breakfast

Cons: There was no place to put stuff in the bedroom

Pros: The hospitality was really really nice. I would love to be there again. On the very last day we had to do a partial cancellation, the manger was kind enough to do so without any charge. Bed was comfortable and room was very clear.

Pros: Staff members were great. Daniel was very attentive and helpful. Staff lent me a phone charger!

Cons: When I checked out they charged me $130.000 for some unknown reason (booking fees) even though I had already paid online

Pros: Daniel was very helpful and organised our trip into the Tatacoa Desert, both quickly and well. Daniel and the other staff were very friendly and welcoming. Our room had air conditioning and was very quiet. Our beds were comfortable. Villa Vieja was a delightful town. Our trip to the desert was fabulous and our yuk yuk driver was very interesting and very obliging. The cafe next door where we had our breakfast was very good. Internet was good.

Cons: No hot water available but it didn’t matter because of the high outside temperature, so a cold shower was in fact ok but it would be nice to have the choice.

Pros: The welcoming and the fact that the staff is very helpful. The room is clean and comfortable with air conditioning.

Cons: The Price is a little bit expensive. Wifi was poor in the room.

Pros: The room is simple, but clean, perhaps it would have been nice to have it cleaned daily, or at least the toilet bin emptied. The swimming pool is very pleasant with a very nice area to sit, also an area with hammocks. WiFi off and on as usual.The nice manager and his wife only speak Spanish, so if food was available through them I did not really understand that.

Cons: I booked this place because I thought it was nearer to Villa Vieja and the desert. The property is in fact in a very small village, with only one place to eat that closes after lunch. There are a few tiny shops with a few basic items to buy. . The remote for the AC did not work, so it was either on and I was too cold, or off.

Pros: The hostel is in a cute tiny village, very simple, calm and green. The man who revieved us was very nice, trying to help with everything as good as he could. He organized us a tour to the desert (which in the end wouldn't really have been necessary as long as one has a car or can drive a moto, also they make it a bit pricey at first), was always there to show us a place where we could eat and answer all our questions. There is snacks and cold drinks in the hostel, breakfast is included and available in a tiny restaurant around the corner where one can also get dinner for a good price.

Cons: We arrived as the only guests friday afternoon. The pool however wasnt ready until Sunday morning, which in 35°C is rather uncomfortable. Also, the hostel was way further from the actual village then the distribution made it sound, it took us over an hour by car because of the shitty roads (motos are probanly way faster).

Pros: Staff were extremely helpful - we arrived very late and they still offered to cook food for us fresh!

Cons: No wifi and electricity often did not work - to be expected from staying in the desert though!

Pros: Everything is like one would expect it for that price and in the middle of the desert. Rooms are basic, the owners are very friendly, food is good and the pool can be used for free but looks very green so we didn't.

Cons: The location of the hospedaje is further away from the observatory than we thought as Google shows two different Villa Marquezes.

Pros: Great location in the desert. Swimming pool was a bonus in the desert heat. Cute cats at property. Guy at hotel was able to give us a ride on his motorbike to the grey desert (los hoyos) for 15,000 cop each way

Cons: Costs a lot for what you get. Although this is the same for all accommodation in the dessert. Not many places to eat or buy water.

Pros: Location is in the middle of nowhere. Hiking in the morning and watching stars in the night is possible at this place

Cons: Only cold water in the shower. Just take an early shower as temperatures rise above 35 degrees

Pros: Nice location and surroundings, swiming pool

Cons: The hotel staff helped us to book a tour while making sound like its necessary, but when we arrived it was obvious that we could have done it even without a guide (or a ride, because one dessert is quite close), so without giving a choice we were made to spend money. Also very hot in the room, but i guess you get what you pay for :)

Pros: Alder, the host was lovely. They have a pool and they didn’t charge to use it. We liked that there was lots of animals around. If you’re into birds you’ll find lots here. The food that was prepared for us was delicious , but make sure you’re there around meal time or you might miss out! and bring food with you as there really isn’t anywhere for you buy anything.

Cons: Unfortunately the cabin is pretty hot inside, there are no fans and the window allowed for poor airflow. There was a mosquito net over the bed but unfortunately there was a bunch of holes in it, We still got bitten by mosquitoes. There wasn’t any toilet paper provided... it would have been good to know this in advance and there isn’t any shops around to by such things. At times we felt like we were intruding on their personal space. If Alder wasn’t there then we felt fairly unwelcome. On the last night we weren’t able to eat dinner as everyone had left for the evening, we went to bed hungry after an afternoon of hiking. I’d recommend anyone to bring food as your meal isn’t a guarantee... but when we did eat it was great ! Lastly we were there during some renovations which made it feel like we were staying in a construction site, but I guess it is the shoulder season so it’s the perfect time to get things done!

Pros: Guesthouse run by a local family with clean and comfortable rooms including screens on the windows plus a swimming pool that was also very clean. We had most of our meals there freshly prepared anytime of the day and were delicious. Right in the middle of the desert. Fifteen to 30 minute walk to the main observatory and red desert. Nine km to the grey desert. Can get there many different ways: bicycle, horse, tuk-tuk or walk. As the owner would say, "very very tranquil here." So true!

Cons: The family doesn't speak English so you need to be patient communicating.

Pros: The pool is very refreshing, the owners are really friendly and the prices for drinks and food are reasonable

Cons: A fan would've been great, but since the hostel is in the desert it might not be possible.