We read the reviews on tripadvisor and felt this would be a nice hotel to stay in. This is more like a budget hotel, if you're ok with overpaying for a motel 6 or something cheaper quality this is for you.

The good ... Check in is late, but we arrived by bus at 5 am and requested early check-in. We waited about 30 minutes and they gave us a room. This is the only reason I've upgraded them to 2 stars.

The bad.... We were on the 9th floor and with the windows closed we can hear every little sound from the street. Trucks, horns, people. The bed was reallly soft, dirty and actually sticky - we didn't want to sleep in it. The bathroom was very small and actually in poor shape. We called the front desk to ask for a different room and being as it's still early they said they'll let us know when they have one available.

The windows leaked, the bed was sticky, the bathroom condition was horrible and even parts of the wall above the window seemed like it had something growing.

My friend took a bunch of pictures of this place - after a long overnight journey we just wanted a place to rest. We were so disgusted that we couldn't and found another hotel in a much better area and for only $2 more - with an upgraded room.

It seems to me that most of the positive reviews were written by staff or friends of staff. I would not recommend this place to anyone. I don't understand how they can charge the prices they charge with such horrible rooms. Oh and the hallway smelled - it looked like an old hospital converted into a hotel.

The bellhop who was standing outside when we arrived by cab didn't assist with the luggage or even open the door for us to wheel our luggage into the lobby.

So hopefully you're a little more informed. When we checked out, the front desk clerk kept looking at his watch and back at us, back at his watch and back at us, not believing we'd check out in 2 hours. We just couldn't stay here any longer.

In a neighbourhood that has been changing for worst; impossible to walk around after sunset. Clean but noisy because of the renovation in progress; it was impossible to get hot water. I didn't care so much because was going to stay there only for two days, but if the hotel were not already payed, for shure I would have changed it.

hotel soloy is a nice hotel located in kind of a bad neighborhood. there was a great supermarket across the block, and internet cafe with 2 blocks, and lots of interesting little local diners within a couple blocks, but i would not recommend walking very far away from the hotel, even during the day, and i would definitely only travel by cab or similar means at night. the hotel itself was clean, comfortable, and had a restaurant, casino, bar, and rooftop pool (none of which we used). the view from the rooftop was stunning, you could see all the sites of panama city from there. this hotel was about a $2-4 taxi ride away from casco viejo, balboa artisan market, and albrook airport, and $5-6 away from amador causeway - good location in that sense :)

Despite the bad critics that I read here I tried the Soloy for my trip to Panama, I was surprised because the rooms were exactly like they looked in the brochure and all the services promised were right there, the hotel's staff were willing to help, very good people.

I have no complaints and that's say something nowadays.
The zone around the hotel is very ugly, not the hotel location itself but 3 or 4 blocks from it really gets nasty, so I really don't recommend to wonder around, but no problem, taxi cabs are really cheap and you have no wait time to get one.