Name: Hostal Donde German
Address: Las Rosas 590, Pucon, Pucon, Pucon, 4920000, Chile
Rating: 8.8

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Hostal Donde German

Wonderful place to stay in Pucón. 

Not just that the hosts are just great, very welcoming, helpful and friendly, but also that the place itself is so nice: 
really spacious rooms, great & perfectly equipped shared kitchen (including fridge to deposit your food), swimmingpool in a lovely backyard, very clean, close to everything. 

They also help you out with tours if wished for.

Highly recommended!

Curious place, and very German. But in a good way. Spotlessly clean, elegantly decorated in subdued DIY Laura Ashley meets Ikea with regimented blades of grass in the garden looking like they wouldn't dare, ever step out of line. Not again. Not after what happened to Basil Blade and his whole family.
I was shown my own personal wicker basket drawer thing downstairs in which I was ordered to place my motorbike boots. No shoes are allowed upstairs. The hostal provides you little pantoffel things which make you look like you're walking on that baby white rabbit from the tampon ads to wear whilst your own footwear is held hostage.
It is though, sublimely peaceful considering it's in the heart of a bustling tourist town full of loud testosterone fuelled adventure wannabes and their concomitant hangers-on.
Highly recommended.

There are two 'german' hostels in Pucon which get confused by the online accommodation sites, e.g. Booking.com. The 'hostel de German' is closer to the centre - we stayed at 'donde German hostal' but did drive to both trying to find the right one. 

The whole hostal is fine and comfortable, but a little tired. The door of our room didn't shut easily and it got very warm in the sun but the rooms were spacious, and we could see the whole of Volcan Villarica from our bed.  The garden area is very pleasant and provides good shade, plus there is a good supermarket less than five minutes walk away. It's probably a 10-15 minute walk to the centre of town but that means it is quiet at night time. 

The common areas are also spacious and well equipped, if a bit dated. The kitchen is large (but needs a knife sharpener!) with several smaller dining tables. The communal sitting area is comfy with several sofas, a TV and a decent collection of books that are inexplicably locked away in a glass fronted cabinet. There is no off street parking but on street parking is plentiful and free.

We paid $126,000 (Chilean) for three nights (private bathroom) and it was excellent value for money. The owner is friendly but only speaks Spanish. 

A clean and good, comfortable hostel. Good bed. warm blankets for winter. Big kitchen with all the basics; microwave, hob, fridge. Two wood burning stoves which were lit at night by owner. No heating in bedrooms. Shower OK; not powerful

We stayed at the new Donde German on the city center.

Pros - absolutely beautiful place, spotlessly clean, Cecilia was very very sweet, lovely garden and pool, large well equipped kitchen, great central location  and a bonus - the cutest house cat!

Cons - at the beginning we stayed at a beautiful room right by the garden. Then we wanted to extend our stay for two more nights, and we were told that it's available. At the last minute don Herman said the room was booked and gave us only one alternative - larger but much worse and more expansive room!! With 4 beds which we didn't need, no curtains, low ceiling (kept bumping our heads) and very noisy (right on the street). We had to wake up very early in the morning so we didn't want to start looking for a new place, but it was very disappointing after the amazing first two nights and Don Herman wasn't flexible at all.

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Highly recommended!

Brilliantly surprising

Tired but comfortable; great value and amazing view. 

Beautiful place

Clean and comfortable

The cottage room we stayed for 2 nights was big and cozy. Decor of the room gave a countryside feel.  However, the heater in the room was difficult to operate. You have to use matchstick to light it up and the heater disconnect at 11PM which made the room very cold when you woke up in the middle of the night. Heater didn't come on at 7AM and we had to remind them.

Owner was far more interested in getting paid than giving us an orientation.

The shared living room and kitchen are nicely done up but after check out, if you want to use the common areas, you have to pay CH$3,000 though you could store your luggage for free with them.

The plus side is the hostel is located near centro (about 10 minutes walk). There are plenty of amenities such as supermarket, laundry, restaurants and shops nearby. The Turbus terminal (for those heading to Santiago) is a 5 minutes walk from the hostel.

Comfortable but not Hospital

We had a bad experience at this hostel
The bedroom was attached to the hostels bathroom, so all night you had the sound of the shower and people using the toilet. Highly would not recommend. The cooker didn't work. The heating is never on any where in the hostel. Even after asking it still didn't go on. We had our coats on during the stay. So much choice in the town, I wouldn't recommend this stay.

Never has heating on and noisy

Disclaimer: the picture that Tripadvisor is currently showing (12/2016) is from the owner's other, much better hostel, which I have already review and rated 5stars, period. In fact, if you look it up on Booking.com, you'll find that it gives you the location of the second hostel, not this one. It is strange, though I' ve been given the understanding that it is Booking's fault (go figure...)

This hostel is located further away from Pucon's downtown. It is still within walking from downtown, around 10-15 minutes by foot, with a huge supermarket 1 block away and several stores near it. It has beautiful private rooms with views to the beautiful garden and, of course, Villarrica Volcano. Nice rural atmosphere. Facilities are quite acceptable and well-kept, plus the owner and his family are very, very friendly people and a priceless source of information: German knows everything you want to know regarding your stay in Pucon, and many things that you dont know you want to know, yet.

Cons: besides the distance from downtown, staff was not so friendly and helpful as the staff in the other hostel, located in Brasil Street and Araucho, which made my stay less enjoyable. Standard rooms are average. 

All in all, nice place to stay.

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