El Pital, Chocolate Paradise

El Pital, Chocolate Paradise Hostel in Nicaragua

4.0 / 5.0

Good(488 Ratings)

Hostel in Nicaragua

Reasons to book

Great price for your budgetOne of the lowest cost properties in the area

Includes essentialsGarden, Internet / Wifi, Beachfront or waterfront and more

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About this hostel

El Pital, Chocolate Paradise has a garden, private beach area, a terrace and restaurant in Balgue. Featuring a bar, the property is located within 3 km of Santo Domingo Beach. The accommodation features evening entertainment and a 24-hour front desk..

Amenities

Internet / Wifi

Fireplace

Smoking allowed

Parking

Laundry

Balcony or Patio

Beachfront or waterfront

Gym or Fitness Center

Garden

Map of Nicaragua

Nearby attractions

Cerro Musun

168.7 mi

Circunvalacion Rio Blanco

162.8 mi

Salto Mulukukú

195.8 mi

Cascada La Golondrina

168.9 mi

Available Rooms

1 King

Sleeps 2

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1 King

Sleeps 2

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1 Queen

Sleeps 2

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1 King

Sleeps 2

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1 King

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El Pital, Chocolate Paradise

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4.0 / 5.0

Good(488 Ratings)

Hostel in Nicaragua

Reasons to book

Great price for your budgetOne of the lowest cost properties in the area

Includes essentialsGarden, Internet / Wifi, Beachfront or waterfront and more

Book with confidenceWe partner with the top travel sites so you know you're getting a great deal on the perfect rental

About this hostel

Amenities

Internet / Wifi

Fireplace

Smoking allowed

Parking

Laundry

Balcony or Patio

Beachfront or waterfront

Gym or Fitness Center

Garden

Map of Nicaragua

Nearby attractions

Cerro Musun

168.7 mi

Circunvalacion Rio Blanco

162.8 mi

Salto Mulukukú

195.8 mi

Cascada La Golondrina

168.9 mi

Available Rooms

1 King

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 King

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Queen

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 King

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 King

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

Ratings and reviews

4.0 / 5.0

Good(488 Ratings)

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4.0 / 5.0

Jul 2024

Regular

Las vistas.

La limpieza

5.0 / 5.0

Jul 2024

Super mooi

Prachtig verblijf (glas house)

1.0 / 5.0

Jul 2024

Great picture of a hamburger not what you will eat

Location fabulous. Rainforest.

List too long. Horrible cabins w steep wooden stairs to bathroom, another on ground level, long confusing walk to toilets. Prices for food a bit steep, only vegan options. Noise level high, upstairs wooden floor light drums for downstairs. Nets not well placed, fan blows them away. Reception lied to me regarding availabilty of other bunk, with smiles of course. Most rent motos to get there but no covered parking for them, and distance from main entrance. Bottom line, design of whoever thought these accomodations up was not really thinking of guests' comfort. 2nd night I cancelled and found a much better more peaceful accomodation nearby. Had private room w bathroom, private lake beach included for same price as the sloppy dormitories here

3.5 / 5.0

Jun 2024

Unieke locatie, schoon, toiletvoorzieningen ver lopen. Voor een tent wel wat aan de prijs.

Uniek verblijf

Toiletvoorzieningen erg ver lopen

3.0 / 5.0

May 2024

I recommend staying here for the sake of the brownies

It is remotely in the jungle and very chill. I liked the vibe, the food and the yoga classes

The rooms are a bit dirty and they charge you quite a lot for drinks and food since you are remote I guess

5.0 / 5.0

Feb 2024

Lo más seguro que vuelvo!!

Es ambiente es una buena combinación de naturaleza y al mismo tiempo moderno y tranquilo. El personal en el bar y la recepción muy amable!

La limpieza de los baños siempre se realizó por la mañana cuando muchas huéspedes iban a usar las instalaciones. Sería mejor a otro momento en el día. El colchón duele en la espalda, pero puede ser que a otros les gusta el colchón asi.

2.0 / 5.0

Feb 2024

Hätte mir mehr erwartet…

Lage, gute Auswahl im Restaurant (der Kakao war der Wahnsinn)

4 Toilettenkabinen für alle Dorms + Personal vor Ort ist definitiv zu wenig! Toiletten waren entweder besetzt, verstopft oder dreckig. Reinigungspersonal kam zu der Zeit, zu der die meisten morgens aufgestanden sind (wäre logisch früher oder später), sehr einfach eingerichtete Dorms mit kaum Ausstattung, unbequeme Matratzen, Führungen werden nur ein oder zweimal pro Woche angeboten, sodass man es bei kurzem Aufenthalt verpasst. Preise im Restaurant sind überdurchschnittlich.

5.0 / 5.0

Feb 2024

Awesome space with great activities

Beautiful space, spacious rooms in a beautiful garden. Daily activities and great food.

5.0 / 5.0

Feb 2024

Peaceful

Beautiful scenery, the cleaning ladies were nice and helpful

A waiter insisted in charging my friend and I together the bar bill when we told him we wanted our bills separately. We had to go back and forth with him until he accepted to charge us separately. It was weird.

3.5 / 5.0

Feb 2024

Hit and miss

Room is lovely, a jungle experience with an outdoor bathroom, the layout and design of the hotel is done well.

I would have given a higher score but due to a few factors I wouldn’t stay again. Customer service needs attention, we felt like an inconvenience at check in and the bar staff rolled their eyes at us for paying in US dollars. I understand it’s the jungle and the room is rustic and we knew there would be bugs, prices are fair for this, but the bathroom door was hard to open, some simple maintenance would help, we had to discard of a couple spiders before we went to sleep. I didn’t enjoy the chocolate cheesecake, it’s mostly bitter and cacao tasting.

5.0 / 5.0

Jan 2024

We will be back, maybe in an other casita.

The Place is incredible the view out of the room amazing. El Pital is the best pleace to eat for me in ometepe.

The Glasshouse was very noise during windy season. There is space between the glas and the bamboo so a lot of wind was coming in, which i can understand. It is so nice to be close to nature, but you have to consider that the water is loud when it is windy☺️

2.0 / 5.0

Jan 2024

Nice concept, but they need to fix some details.

The restaurant is located beautifully with a view on the lake and the vulcano. The accommodation was all the way in the back of the property, which made it nice and quiet.

During our stay, there were some constructions going on across our cabin. The van was not working, what made the cabin a comfortable spot for bug to chill. The bed is basically on the floor, and the pillow felt like it was 10 years old. In the morning (5:00 am) there was a ritual with drums on the property next to the cabin that woke us up. The parking was far away from the reception and it didn’t feel comfortable to leave the car there.

4.0 / 5.0

Dec 2023

Tolles Ambiente!

Ursprünglich, stylisch, außergewöhnlich, sehr schön angelegt , tolle Küche ! Seeehr freundliches Personal :)

4.0 / 5.0

Dec 2023

Super Service 👍

Wunderschöne, ruhige Lage am Wasser und zentral gelegen

2.5 / 5.0

Dec 2023

Beautiful place but not for staying the night!

El Pital is a lovely place and the staff is friendly!

The Glass house looks amazing on the pictures, but unfortunaly thats the only thing nice about it. We did not sleep at all for 2 nights: •The fan did not work. Shower only had 2 drops of water coming out. • Doors/windows are not fully closed • Insects and flies everywhere!! Its very windy on this side of the Island so in combination with the fact that you are sleeping on the edge of the water; it feels like a storm and remember the whole building is not fully closed! So it looked amazing but for us not something we would recommend!

5.0 / 5.0

Jul 2023

The place feels like heaven. Those how looking for relaxation, good food and a beautiful view, this is for you

The place was very special, beautiful and very authentic. The staff were lovely and took care of all our needs. In the restaurant the vegan food was very tasty. I would especially like to mention Angel, the manager of the place, who was kind and gave us personal attention

The toilets were organic, and there are a lot of mosquitoes in the place, pay attention to prepare accordingly

2.5 / 5.0

Jul 2023

full of bugs that you’ve probably never seen before

beautiful place but must be willing to live with big bugs. We had the king-size deluxe room and the first night we found 2 big 4x4 inches spider in our room. There were also many big bugs that we’ve never seen before and we woke up with many many mosquitoes bites. We’ve been told that they didn’t know if the spiders were venomous or not so we ask to change room. They change us in a beautiful new room, which we appreciated but we found a scorpion crowding on the floor. It’s only later that we’ve been told that the scorpion was in fact venomous. We’ve woken up from our last night there with thousands of ants in the room, on the floor, in the bed and in our personal things.

4.5 / 5.0

Jul 2023

Superb

Really beautiful rooms and a lovely restaurant with great food.

The hot water was not working when we stayed there and the driveway seemed like it could be a bit tricky to manoeuvre, but we had a four wheeler so that was fine. Might be hard on a scooter.

5.0 / 5.0

Jul 2023

Peaceful, felt like home

Location, lake was lovely. Staff! Angal at front desk, Allan at cafe and Marie-lee… the staff at a whole were amazing but certainly made some lovely connections.

Nothing

3.5 / 5.0

Jun 2023

Come for amazing chocolate but not luxury living

The chocolate, the yoga, the showers were very clean

The ants on our bags in the morning. The room was also very dated and dark

4.5 / 5.0

Jun 2023

Had a lovely, relaxing and peaceful stay at El Pital. Would definitely return!

Location and setting were gorgeous. All the food and drinks served at the onsite cafe/restaurant were delicious. Overall the vibe was wonderful! Yoga classes in the morning were also lovely.

Food and drinks were more expensive than we would have anticipated beforehand.

0.5 / 5.0

Jun 2023

Horrific I couldn’t wait to leave

The beautiful lakeside location

The cleanliness !!!!!! - Had 1000s of bugs everywhere ! I’ve never felt more uncomfortable in my life. I had to stay in another hostel and recieved no refund despite not staying. The picture shows hundred of dead bug on the bed I was expected to sleep in.

4.0 / 5.0

May 2023

Very good

the location itself is scenic, very well located next to the town, restaurants and other activities. the staff are nice and helpful, they do their best to help with your questions. the yoga session was great fun as well

the room could use a bit more fan, especially the upper bunk is quite hot. internet coverage is not strong enough which could be an issue for digital nomads

5.0 / 5.0

May 2023

Exceptional

magical place on the island of ometepe the staff are so friendly and the food is amazing .. highly recommended staying here for a wonderful experience.

5.0 / 5.0

May 2023

If I’m ever going back to Ometepe, El Pital is the place where I will want to stay again. I had a fantastic experience t

Everything is amazing! The location, the staff, the food, the events… It felt like paradise! It had very luxurious vibe to it which I really enjoyed. Definitely would recommend! <3

4.0 / 5.0

May 2023

Great place for a day hang out, would reconsider staying here overnight

Location, environment, lakeside. Kitchen / cafe staff was helpful

reception staff was not very helpful

4.0 / 5.0

May 2023

Very good

Great Staff! Beautiful place, and really nice place to relax.

Even though everything was great. The Showers, everyone can see you while showering. Besides that, everything else was quite good.

5.0 / 5.0

Apr 2023

Deep relaxation combined with spectacular food!

My favourite part of staying at El Pital was drinking their chocolate superpower smoothie for breakfast - it's so good! The food overall is really good. The atmosphere is very casual and laidback. My cabin was oceanfront so I could hear the waves crashing the whole time and it made me relax so much; I could feel my body becoming less tense during my stay. Make sure to bring cash, el Pital doesn't accept card payments. Bring bug spray too.

4.0 / 5.0

Apr 2023

Beautiful, pricey restaurant.

The location is beautiful, right by the lake with the terrace and hammocks and places to hang out in the sun. Dorms were nice, each bed has a fan. Nice showers and organic toilets. They organise fun activities like yoga, movie nights, taco night, which is a good way of meeting people.

The restaurant was quite pricey and limited. Only vegan options and very healthy. For example the brownie didn’t taste like brownie, i’m guessing it had no sugar in it. If you like that, perfect, but i like myself a good ol brownie and that was a dissapoitment. Also, there is no kitchen, so you kind of have to buy food at the restaurant or go somewhere else.

2.0 / 5.0

Apr 2023

would not recommend- overpriced for what you get

pretty along the water

we had met travelers who came here before and told us not to come… but the pictures looked so nice. wish we hadn’t. the communication is Poor, they overcharged us (& they only accept cash), we arranged a tour with reception and the next morning were picked up for the wrong one, both of us got breakfast food poisoning, our “to-go” food for hiking was half eaten in the staff fridge the next day, & currently sitting at the airport with all my stuff and body covered in ants from the room in El Pital. oh and not to mention we paid extra for the nice room & bathroom, which is a porta-potty that they do not empty.

4.0 / 5.0

Apr 2023

Very good

Beautiful location and sunsets Good food Friendly staff

My bedsheet wouldn’t stay on so I ended up lying directly on the mattress and the pillow was extremely flat. There was also 4 power cuts every night.

1.0 / 5.0

Apr 2023

Worst check in ever

Good location

Hostel was full i wait 20 mins and they finally put bed on the floor. Its overrated. Cold water, bad wifi and overpriced pushy restaurant. Bed dirty, you cannot recharge your phone if you are in upper bed.

4.5 / 5.0

Apr 2023

Superb

Super nice location with nice vibe and good food. Make sure you rent a scooter in moyogalpa since it makes everything easier.

Food a bit pricey. BUT good value for money since amazing quality.

2.0 / 5.0

Mar 2023

started well but quickly went downhill.

Food was exceptional but slightly overpriced. Quick and easy moped rental and good views. A very chill and relaxed vibe.

As it was a bit of a walk to the nearest shop or restaurant we had no other option than to eat hostel food. Travelling on a budget made this not ideal. We were told it was cash only with no other way to pay and the nearest ATM is ten minute drive away. When we got to checking out they said we could paypal which we did however they gave us the wrong paypal name so we ended up paying 200$ to a random account. It took us two and a half hours to check out as we also had to work out our own tab and the amount we owed! They were very unhelpful with helping us check out and just left it all up to us. The dorm we were in had no curtains and the roof was falling apart so when the wind blew we were covered in dirt on top bunks. It was incredibly loud as the tarpaulin on the roof was flapping and we got little to no sleep.

FAQs

How much does this hostel cost compared to others in Nicaragua?

The average price for a rental in Nicaragua is R 1,419 per night. This rental is R 1,235 less expensive than the average.

Is parking included with this hostel?

Yes, parking is listed as an amenity at El Pital, Chocolate Paradise. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.

Is there a pool at this hostel?

We didn’t find pool listed as an amenity for this hostel. It may be worth double checking if a pool is important for your stay.

Is El Pital, Chocolate Paradise pet friendly?

Unfortunately, this hostel is not pet-friendly. Try searching again and filter for "Pets Allowed"

What amenities are available at El Pital, Chocolate Paradise?

We found 9 amenities for this rental. This includes internet / wifi, fireplace, smoking allowed, parking, and laundry.

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El Pital, Chocolate Paradise

Hostel in Nicaragua

Reasons to book

About this hostel

Amenities

Map of Nicaragua

Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

El Pital, Chocolate Paradise

Hostel in Nicaragua

Reasons to book

About this hostel

Amenities

Map of Nicaragua

Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

Ratings and reviews

FAQs

How much does this hostel cost compared to others in Nicaragua?

Is parking included with this hostel?

Is there a pool at this hostel?

Is El Pital, Chocolate Paradise pet friendly?

What amenities are available at El Pital, Chocolate Paradise?

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