Hostal Casa Buho

Très bonnes personnes toujours la pour aider et m accommoder très bon service très propre très bien situé

Peter and the staff are fantastic. The main building with individual rooms is great-real charming property. The "hostel" is located with small rooms, group rooms and shared restrooms is another issue. It's tidy and clean. But, the noise is very problematic. The road noise is VERY LOUD dogs from neighboring property barking a great deal. Other guests, with ZERO self awareness, have no issue leaving fans on stomping on the second floor, talking loudly etc. needless to say after an hour my first night I called for an Uber at midnight and ended up driving an hour to Guatemala City because hotels in town were $300 per night. Again, the main hotel is fine, avoid the hostel completely.

The staff was exceptionally wonderful, they helped me with everything. I booked all my tours through the staff, they gave me tips on what to do in Antigua on my own, they were ready to help in everything 24/7. As a Finn I was especially happy as the owner of this hotel+hostel is Swedish - almost my countryman :). We had good talks in Swedish, he also upgraded me to better room with no extra costs :). The premises are green, lush, beautiful, paradise-like.

Lights in the hostel side could have been better, especially in the second floor rooms and in first floor’s sink/tap/mirror area. The rooms could need some hooks on the walls as well, as now there were no places to hang things.

Beautiful gardens and grounds. Beautiful trees and flowers and peacocks roaming the property. Impressive natural setting.

I booked a private room and found myself in what is really a dormitory of beds with bamboo enclosures. Every sound of everyone in the space is audible, including from the floor below. No actual privacy. Rooms accommodate the bed and nothing more; no room for luggage or anywhere to put clothes. As a dorm bed it’s fine. Sold as a private room it’s a fraud.

Grounds were beautiful.

The room was not a room but a cubicle, no ceiling, walls were see through.

The room right next to the street. I could not sleep.

Beautiful garden

Infrastructure, the rooms had no independent ceiling, the walls did not provide any privacy, you could hear the person next room coughing as it was next to you, you could partially see into the room next to you and during the night people using a flashlight in their rooms would swing it and it could hit your face and wake you up which it did several times. It was very cold too. Overall a dorm might have been better.

Exceptional nice staff! Huge, peaceful garden in a quiet area. Everything was super clean and comfortable. Felt like I was at home.

I personally liked the location, however its like a 30min walk from the center of antigua, so maybe not the best choice if you want to return late or have to leave early in the morning.