A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Cartagena, Colombia by TravelPod blogger Yoni titled “Cartagena” Yoni’s travel blog entry: “June 4, 2008 Cartagena, Colombia We arrived in Cartagena about 7 AM and got a room at the Casa Viena for 38000 pesos per night. We chose this place because it is supposed to be the best place to connect with sail boats headed to Panama. They gave us their best room on the second floor overlooking the street. We can’t complain but the staff and the ambience is a little weird here. For instance there is a sign saying that if you don’t check out by noon you will have to pay for another whole day “like everywhere else in the world”. Not only is the last phrase unnecessary and condescending, it is untrue. All through South America we have arranged to check out late for no more than ½ day extra or less. We have not decided if we will actually take a sail boat to Panama or just fly. Most of what we’ve read on line about the boat trips has been negative. Some have been horror stories; the trip is dangerous, the boats are uncomfortable, and the captains are psycho. There is a sail boat leaving on Monday so we have to decide soon if we want to get a place on it. Otherwise we may have to wait a week for another boat. Om lime we found an airline that has a flight from here to Panama for only 1 but with taxes and fees the price goes up to 4. We go out to the airport to buy tickets and find that we have to pay 0 each. The boat would …

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