Akwadup Lodge

3.0 star property
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On the beach
Breakfast, lunch, dinner served; Regional cuisine
Aerial view
Exterior
Traditional Cabin, 1 Bedroom, Ocean View

Reviews

5.0 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • 24/7 front desk
    24/7 front desk
  • Breakfast available
    Breakfast available
  • Room service
    Room service
  • Pet-friendly
    Pet-friendly
  • Housekeeping
    Housekeeping
  • Restaurant
    Restaurant

Explore the area

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Akwadup, Comunidad de Achutupu, Panama City, Guna Yala
  • Metropolitan Cathedral of Panama
    2 min walk
  • Avenida Balboa
    11 min walk
  • Cinta Costera
    13 min walk
  • Panama City (PAC-Marcos A. Gelabert Intl.)
    12 min drive

Room options

Traditional Cabin, 1 Bedroom, Ocean View

  • 10 sq m
  • Ocean view
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Double Beds

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About the area

Panama City

Located in Panama City (Casco Viejo), Akwadup Lodge is within a 15-minute walk of Avenida Balboa and Cinta Costera. .This beach lodge is 3 mi (4.8 km) from Albrook Shopping Mall and 3.8 mi (6.2 km) from Multiplaza Pacific Mall.

What's nearby

  • Metropolitan Cathedral of Panama - 2 min walk - 0.2 km
  • Avenida Balboa - 11 min walk - 1.0 km
  • Cinta Costera - 13 min walk - 1.1 km
  • Albrook Shopping Mall - 7 min drive - 4.8 km
  • Amador Causeway - 8 min drive - 4.9 km

Getting around

  • Estación Lotería - 7 min drive
  • Panama City Passenger Station - 16 min drive
  • Tocumen Intl. Airport (PTY) - 29 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪CasaCasco - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Terraza Casacasco - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Tantalo Hotel / Kitchen / Roofbar - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Café Unido - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪Bistro Central - ‬4 min walk

About this property

Akwadup Lodge

Sun and fun on the beach, near Cinta Costera
Akwadup Lodge offers 8 accommodations with ceiling fans. Bathrooms include showers and complimentary toiletries. Housekeeping is provided daily.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 8 guestrooms. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include desks and ceiling fans, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as concierge services. Additional amenities at this lodge include a picnic area and barbecue grills.
Satisfy your appetite for lunch or dinner at the lodge's restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the 24-hour room service. Breakfast is available for a fee.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk and multilingual staff.
Onsite venue - This restaurant specializes in Regional cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
24-hour room service is available.

Property amenities

Food and drink

  • Breakfast available for a fee: USD 6 for adults and USD 6 for children
  • 1 restaurant
  • 24-hour room service

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Concierge services
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Multilingual staff
  • Tour/ticket assistance

Business services

  • Meeting rooms

Outdoors

  • BBQ grill(s)
  • Beachfront location
  • Garden
  • Picnic area
  • Terrace

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Ceiling fan

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower

More

  • Desk

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 7:00 AM
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 6:30 AM

Special check-in instructions

Guests must transfer to the property via Airplane and must arrange the transfers by contacting the property before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival
For more details, please contact the property using the information on the booking confirmation

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 15 per pet, per day
Restrictions apply; for more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Breakfast fee: approximately USD 6 for adults and USD 6 for children
  • Pet fee: USD 15 per pet, per day

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

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 and cash

We should mention

There is no hot water on site

Property is also known as

Akwadup Lodge San Blas Islands
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Akwadup San Blas Islands
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Akwadup Lodge Panama City
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Akwadup Lodge Reviews

Reviews

5.0
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5.0/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

4.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Customer

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
BED BUGS!!! Trash dump site with some extra stuff
What you get for $400 a night: BED BUGS!!! Some guest thought they were mosquito bites - look at the pattern of the bites - in the row, look closely at the mattresses - we found a few bugs after we suspected we were bitten by bed bugs. The worst of all - four fifth of this small island is a trash dump site, septic tank spilled and flooded most of the are you see in "beautiful" pictures posted on line. Stunk for the duration of our stay. There was no area to walk on clean surface- trash piles or sewer covered grass. Eating area is dirty, utensils appears to be not cleaned with water. Kitchen is filthy from the back with dog (poor animals living on site full of fleas) running in and out of it. Towels smelled like mold and were given to us only once on the first day, water bottles appeared to be refilled and sold to us as new. Scary! No running water at night. Beaches are trashed with everything from plastic, hazardous waste material, construction refuse, semi-burned plastic furniture. Included exertions were to another dump site beach that had no sand. There are dead reefs. Staff was trying to be friendly- some of the people were hard workers. 2 our of 6 exertions to nearby islands were decent. Daniel- owner or manager, has University degree. He takes advantage of tourists- $400 a night plus extra pay he demanded for water is an extortion. Keep in mind you are at their mercy - nobody can take you to the main land, but his boat. No cell service.

8/10 Good

heribert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Not five star holiday but authentic
First of all, we chose this place because of lack of transport options to the Northwestern part of San Blas. We got a direct flight to Achutupu runway, an experience in itself. We were picked up by Jeronimo, the 80year old owner of the lodge. The lodge is old but kept spic and span. We were a bit disapointed to be the only tourists, however, it had some charme to be the only visitors to the island. Unfortunately, the rest of the island that belonged to other people but uninhabited had lots of litter on its beaches. Still, there wer two very clean beaches with shady trees. One of the employees took us for two daytrips to very neat little islands to snorkel. Unfortunately, there were no canoos or other boats to rent that would have made us more independent. The trip to Achutupo was authentic, a wonderful village with 2000 inhabitants, and NO cars or motorcycles. Unfortunately, on its beaches lots of litter. Also, no place for animal/rights/people with pigs kept in minute cages...The downside of the place were the tiny moscitos smaller than the holes in the moscito net provided. Bring your own moscito net, and aks the staff for smoke spirals that you also should use in the restaurant. Repellents to do not work. And be aware that you are not residing in a luxury cabin you may know from more famous tourist places. You are going to an authentic area where the Guna Yala live their more or less traditional lives. One further advice is to bring along drinking water.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2017