We stayed at Casa Medina for 4 days, and cannot criticize anything. The room was large and very comfortable, staff were friendly and helpful, breakfast was excellent. Although not located in an area of many tourist destinations, there are a large number of decent to excellent restaurants within a (safe) 5 minute walk. Astrid y Garcon, a Peruvian restaurant, was our favourite. We stayed over a weekend, and the hotel was surprisingly quiet. Perhaps it has more guests during the week, who are in Bogota for business.

The hotel was recommended as the place to stay for our business meetings as the central location to our client meetings. The hotel has beautiful flowers and the overall beauty of the hotel grew on me during my three day stay. My room on first impression seemed to me to be average. Not sure why they don't stock a iron for business travelers, had to get the hotel maid to press my clothes. The bed was average but comfortable.
My room was second floor street side. I heard all the traffic noise, car alarms, people working on cars next door. While I am from the NYC area and have a high tolerance a reasonable level of noise the hotel allowed too much to creep in my opinion - they should invest in better windows.
The area is nice, many varied food options within walking distance. I allocated too many meals to Harry's bar and grill around the corner - it was a very good place to go for casual food with a excellent wine list.
The staff overall I thought was helpful, if you engage a staff member walking down the hallways they don't speak or smile, local custom thing??
They only strong negative is the internet service - it's a fast wireless network. You have to buy time in blocks of time and you must retain the password they give you. The password does not retain in the browser and its annoying to have to keep going to the home page to type in the password. My next trip i will stay in the sister hotel the located downtown or a american global chain hotel but the medina will not be revisited, just not my preference. I would recommend this hotel just not for the business traveler.

I was recommended this hotel by locals as the "best" hotel in Santiago and certainly one of the most expensive ones. My expectations were high and since I travel often to Bogota I decided to check it out. I work in the travel industry so I am used to being in Hotels worldwide.

The title of my review says it all, yes it is a great old colonial building and the location in the District "G" (the restaurant meca of Bogota) is superb if you like your food. However, you would expect much more from a 5 star hotel with these prices (high even by internatioonal standards). Here are some items for you to consider:
- Rooms: are good, well lit, quite and spacious. I had one overlooking the interior patio, so quiet (expect for the painting work they decided to carry out throught the weekend!)
-If your rate does not include Breakfast, you will shell out 35 USD. We are in Colombia where a taxi ride is 2 dollars (just for comparisson purposes).
-WIFI: They charge 55,000 Bolivars per 24 hours, around 25 USD per day!! I beleive it should be included with the high room rates and being 5 stars, but not. Again to make the comparisson: a monthly bill in Colombia for WIFI at home will cost you 50,000 Bolivars, for a whole month!
- Water in the room: EVIAN 1 liter: 19,000 Bolivars or 8 USD per bottle
-Service: Everyone smiles here and that is appreciated but they take forever to answer anything. Room service closes at 11:00 PM. The only hotel bar is not open on Sundays. Again we are talking 5 stars here.
- Check your bill: on top of your rate they will add severeal lines with other charges that will really confusse you like DAILY service charges, plus hotel insurance plus tax, hence making your rate much higher than advertised.
-GYM: it is a cubby hole about 200 sq ft. Literally 4 machines, that is all. No more than 2 people could be at teh same time and only one treadmill, so forget it.

Besides all this, during my week there they decided to paint some parts of the hotel. They never told me at reservation time or even at check-in time. One day I tried to have lunch at their restaurant , but although it was open it smelled strognly of paint. They were repainting their bar or some other parts at Lunch time!! And they thought it was OK to eat while smelling paint.! Again this is a 5 star expensive hotel.

So all in all, if you are in Bogota for pleasure, maybe this will be a romantic place to stay because of the colonial style and location, but if you are in business you should forget it. It really is not worth your while.

A world traveller

This hotel is centrally located and offers everything you require of a 5* boutique hotel: the reception area is small and charming (coffee and cookies on offer), the staff friendly, the interiour design very stylish and comfortable.

The room I had (Junior Suite) was of good size with a beautiful bathroom and great furniture. Internet (WiFi) is free and fast.

Next time I'll stay at the Casa Medina again.