Boynton wrote:
Netgems wrote:
Taormina .....
It very well may be the least desirable of the hotels, room wise.
Both SL and Castillo have some amazing rooms.
Technically Castillo is in the middle of SL and Taormina, and if all your activities were day time, that's a good choice, easy quick walk to either one, and SL is also an excellent choice, but if you're going to be looking for action at night, why run from hotel to hotel?
Also, at night, newbies shouldn't be taking that walk between them, so you have to take taxi's.
I always stayed at HDR back in the wonder years, before retiring here.
Many a night I took the elevator down, made my selection and was in the shower with a hottie 10 minutes later, and they had an excellent morning crew as well, but HDR is probably your least desirable choice now.
When you're at Taormina...Get the steak sammich !!!
1. You use your room to sleep and Phuck. Why pick a place that "very well be the least desirable of the hotels, room wise"?
2. You don't ride around town in taxis or even repeatedly go back and forth between the hotels in them. You load Uber on your phone and use one to take you door-to-door for less than $2. You don't need to speak Spanish or even have cólones if you charge it to your Credit Card in the app. You start at one hotel, and if after an hour or so you don't see anything you like, you Uber to the next hotel. This happens no matter which hotel you sleep/play at.
3. The steak sandwich at the Taormina is good
by Costa Rica standards. The beef here sucks. Don't choose your hotel based on Netgems' belly.
Stay where you like, enjoy your trip.
We'll agree to disagree. I'm told the rooms at Taormina are adequate, not dissimilar to standard modern hotels in America, clean, decent size, good bathrooms, plenty of room, just nothing amazing like the pricier rooms at SL and Castillo.
Th thing is taxi's are all around these hotels, sometimes it's faster and no more expensive to hop in one right outside the hotel. They always say 2 mil to get from one of these hotels to another, I say 1 mil and not a tiddlywink silver colone more and they all bite. No Spanish needed, they know where these places are.
Remember I'm a gourmet chef, and a world renown expert in exquisite elegant dining, and owned my own restaurant, well my parent's restaurant, where I did everything and even cooked...
The steak at Taormina isn't going to ever challenge Ruth Chris, but on a scale relating to Philly style steak sammiches, even in America, it's excellent, and pre cooked into thick juicy bite size chunks, no fat or gristle.
Now things may have changed as they often do here on a dime, but my last couple forays into downtown at night, SL and Castillo were less exciting than that grave yard off Paseo Colon and Taormina was hopping, so why travel to dead spots with only one 45 year old provider each?
If anyone has been staying at Castillo or SL recently, and found anything diff, it's been about a month since I was downtown, let us know, that may change the dynamics, but I feel for these guys spending a couple g's and staying at a place with one 45 y/o granny staring them down when we enjoyed a plethora of dozens, nay, hundreds at our disposal at any time in the glory years of wonderment and greatness when every man was a king...