Hostal CASABLANCA

Hicimos la reservación día antes, y cuando llegamos nuestra habitación la dieron a otras personas, aunque nos explicaron que fue error del personal de turno, tuvimos que esperar hasta que nos alisten otra pieza, ademas de llegar tarde al almuerzo por el que viajamos.

Very unfriendly staff
Parking costs 15B per night
This was not announced when I asked for free parking
the money was just taken from us without communication (receptionist said she will bring the change later on and deducted money for parking independently then..)
We had only one towel in the room instead of one per bed as in other rooms. We were knocked at our room twice suspected to have taken another towel (and toilet paper… and taken away the towel that was in our room when we visited it later exchanged against a smaller towel)
We were served breakfast one after another so that we couldn’t eat together

Room was quite small. Bathroom wasn’t clean and the basin tap was broken so it leaked on the floor of used. Terrible bed. Wobbly frame and knackered mattress/springs which made it sag in the middle. Very echoey building so all noise is transferred to the room. I was lucky it wasn’t busy.

Breakfast took long before you git it. Paciencia...

Our room smelled like sewage. A very dark and basic room with a small window to the corridor. Far from the city centre with no restaurants or amenities nearby.

There's not much light in the room, so wouldn't recommend it for longer stays. The breakfast is not a buffet breakfast, so that should be corrected in the listing description.

I am not one to complain about small indiscretions, but I would like to warn other travellers what they are in for if they come here. The mattress of the bed was so old it had a huge dip in the middle and squeaked every time you moved, plus there were strands of hair all over the room, which I noticed immediately. Despite there being a nice looking bath tub in the bathroom, there was no plug and the hostel was meant to have a shared kitchen, but there was no such facility, although after I kicked up a fuss about being wrongly advised in the description of the place, the owner did let us cook there as an exception. Staff gave us the wrong instructions regarding timings of breakfast and the breakfast itself was very meagre, just a vegetable sandwich in stale white bread slices, with a kiddie’s yoghurt and a glass of pseudo orange juice, plus bags of the standard tea and coffee sachets. It was much too costly for what we got and our experience of Oruro was marred by this experience.

The girl who "welcomed" us barely said hello, she didn't even know where we could change dollars (just for your info, at the Campero Market from local people sitting in the corners and advertising their service). The room was claustrophobic small and the shower was full of hairs. Hairs were also in the bed sheet and pillows were too thick and hard.