Hostal El Balsamo

The people who run this place are very friendly and helpful

This whole hostel super dirty. The toilets are clean but the rest is bad. The fans over the beds are super dusty. The shower reminded me more of a prison shower and the room is full with spiderwebs. And a lot more…

Very close to the beach and had a kitchen, a comfortable bed en friendly owner (only spanish)

The shower is missing a showerhead. And it is just in general very hot there, some fans do not work and you dont have ac

The staff were very friendly, always happy to help and Patricia even fixed my flip flops!

Close the surf break

It wasn’t super clean. And the property is next to the main road. But there’s nothing they can do about that other than some acoustic sound barrier in the building.

Great location close to the beach, very chill environment, lovely staff and cats

Could do with some more pots to boil water and cook with

Very basic facilities but cheap and fine value for money taking the area into account (everything near El tunco is overpriced )

Animal sh**t in bed Think it was coming from the attic Very happy I had a mosquito net Only one toilet and shower to all guests

Cute little happy family that runs the hostal, makes you happy to just observe. Also, a bar where you can buy some snacks and beers. Cheap pizza place close by. Groceries shopping is a bit harder, but cheap as well.

They advertise with a airport shuttle, but did not respond to my questions about it. Since airport wifi was bad I could not order an Uber, and ended up paying a lot of money to some taxi driver. So, responding to new clients could be improved, they could get money from it and it would save me some money. Also, its close to a road that can be really noisy, also at night.