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Hotel California Panama

3.0 star property
your current months are December, 2024 and January, 2025.
December 2024
January 2025

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Outdoor pool
Terrace/patio
Restaurant
Exterior
Reception

Reviews

7.8 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
    Bar
  • Gym
    Gym
  • Pool
    Pool
  • Room service
    Room service
  • Parking included
    Parking included
  • 24/7 front desk
    24/7 front desk

Explore the area

Map
VIA ESPANA & CALLE 43, Panama City, Panama
  • Avenida Central
    1 min walk
  • Calle 50
    4 min walk
  • Avenida Balboa
    9 min walk
  • Panama City (PAC-Marcos A. Gelabert Intl.)
    9 min drive

Room options

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Free WiFi, bed sheets

Deluxe Triple Room

  • City view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 3 Twin Beds

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Classic Triple Room (Studio)

Classic Triple Room (Studio)

  • City view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 3 Twin Beds

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Deluxe Single Room

Deluxe Single Room

  • City view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Superior Double Room

  • Bay view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Deluxe Studio

Deluxe Studio

  • City view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Classic Double Room

Classic Double Room

  • City view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Twin Bed and 1 Double Bed

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About the area

Panama City

A stay at Hotel California Panama places you in the heart of Panama City, within a 15-minute walk of Avenida Balboa and Cinta Costera. .This hotel is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) from Via Espana and 3.3 mi (5.4 km) from Albrook Shopping Mall.

What's nearby

  • Avenida Balboa - 9 min walk - 0.8 km
  • Cinta Costera - 11 min walk - 1.0 km
  • Via Espana - 15 min walk - 1.3 km
  • Multiplaza Pacific Mall - 4 min drive - 3.6 km
  • Albrook Shopping Mall - 7 min drive - 5.4 km

Getting around

  • Santo Tomas Station - 7 min walk
  • Panama City Passenger Station - 13 min drive
  • Panama City (PAC-Marcos A. Gelabert Intl.) - 9 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Masala Indian Cuisine - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪Café Santé - ‬9 min walk
  • ‪Piso 5 Café - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪Pío Pío - ‬6 min walk
  • ‪Subway - ‬9 min walk

About this property

Hotel California Panama

Hotel with free parking, a short walk to Avenida Balboa
Hotel California Panama offers 60 accommodations with air conditioning. 23-inch flat-screen televisions come with cable channels.

Bathrooms include showers. This Panama City hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a fitness center.
Make yourself at home in one of the 60 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms with showers are provided.
Be sure to enjoy recreational amenities including an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless internet access and tour/ticket assistance.
Grab a bite from the snack bar/deli, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Free self parking is available onsite.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Languages

English, Spanish

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site
  • Free off-site parking

Food and drink

  • 1 bar
  • Room service available

Things to do

  • Fitness centre
  • Outdoor pool

Family friendly

  • Outdoor pool
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • Lift
  • Front-desk safe

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Luggage storage
  • Tour/ticket assistance

Outdoors

  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have any requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Lift
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible (may have limits)

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning
  • Bed sheets

Bathroom

  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels

Entertainment

  • 23-inch flat-screen TV
  • TV channels

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: noon; Check-in end time: 11:30 PM
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

No pets or service animals allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash

We should mention

The seasonal pool will be open from January to December
Pool access available from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM
No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property

Property is also known as

Hotel California Panama Hotel
Hotel California Panama Panama City
Hotel California Panama Hotel Panama City

Hotel California Panama Reviews

Reviews

7.8

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 25 out of 76 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 29 out of 76 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 11 out of 76 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 4 out of 76 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 7 out of 76 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

7.4/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Rose Marie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I wish I had a refrigerator in my room. The restaurant was closed. It was very disappointed.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

sylvia

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Comfortable enough for a business stay. Clean and friendly place.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2024

6/10 Okay

Alexie

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Did not tell me any information or orientation especially accessing WiFi. I used my cellular data all throughout my stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tashika

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tashika

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Ok
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

PETRUS

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
This hotel is on the Via España which is a big plus and still only five minutes walk from the main stretch of the Via España popular with visitors and locals starting at Iglesia Carmen. It is also only two blocks from the Riba Smith supermarket, the highest-end local supermarket. The hotel is clean but rooms of the same price vary in what they offer, one we had had a fridge but no chair, another a chair but no fridge. This hotel is very good value for the money but the rooms are tiny and you need to bring an extension cord to get to the outlet in the smaller rooms behind one bed. Internet is quick but drops out a lot. You can get hotels for less money but you also get less and the locations worsen quickly. Be careful to check your online booking to ensure that you get the room you were promised. Overall? Great value for money if location is important and very good value for money in the $35-40 range for a room. Note they do not provide shampoo or conditioner or facial tissues.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

2/10 Terrible

Tashika

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Ok
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Christopher, honolulu

This is a nice low cost hotel, friendly staff, walking distance to a 24 hour store, bakery, supermarket and a good taco place. WiFi worked fine, coffee in room.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Edwin

Travelled with family
Very clean. Maybe a little oversold but comes at a very reasonable price. Good choice for a low budget traveller.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Patricia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Its is the centre of the city, and easy access to public transportation, shopping, just a 6 minutes drive to multi plaza and albrook mall.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Jose, Panama

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Its pretty good. Overall quiet. One thing I didnt expect was to be asked for my room keys whenever I leave the hotel but I guess they have their reasons.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Yamini

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It is very conveniently located and within walking distance of Cinta Costera, Avenida Bulboa and public transport. Economical, affordable and very pleasant staff.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2022

6/10 Okay

Duncan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Amenities advertised were not available, restaurant and bar folded up
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

6/10 Okay

Richard R.

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
OK for a budget hotel
The equipment in the "fitness center" did not work. Pool looked much bigger in the pictures.
Stayed 5 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Amy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Our family had a great stay at Hotel California. It was clean, in a good location, and had everything we needed.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2022

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Hotel without California feeling
I feel indifferent about this hotel -Wifi unstable or not working and the air condition device was extremly loud. Bathrooms are nice though.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022

10/10 Excellent

Royal

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 13 nights in Dec 2021

8/10 Good

justin h

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
best air conditioning ever. It blows directly across my body. Ive been sleeping like a baby
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

4/10 Poor

Tracey

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Hotel California.
Not a lovely place. Not a lovely place. I was woken up by the cleaners banging on my door like there was an evacuation even though I told the front desk not to disturb me. Then again I told them not to do that the next day, to two people. So they woke me up by calling me over again. The owner is so cheap that he is terrified of not getting paid so harasses the guests. Where would one go with 5 suitcases. The pool is jacuzzi size without the bubbles. The WiFi doesnt work. There are better places to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

8/10 Good

carlos

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good location for the price
Nice experience for the price, quiet area, got a tub in the balcony y a basic gym if you like to sweat a little nit more, close to metro station, just be careful crossing the streets, you need to calculate and take a run, if not , you stay there the whole day
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

2/10 Terrible

Samson

Disliked: Staff & service
Stayed 8 nights in Jan 2021

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2020

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 26 nights in Nov 2020

8/10 Good

Dorca, Bronx, New York

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
It is close to everything! Walking distance to major attractions & Santo Thomas Train Station. There is a nice bar/restaurant, The Blue Note, which is really nice as well
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2020