I've flown into
STI twice arriving at the crappy early morning hours, great airfare prices beat the few hours of boredom! Last year I got a free ride with a local/expat to Boston area to the bus depot....he gave the guard some money to let me in the gates and watch over me. I had 3-5 hours (I forget) of time to kill which sort of sucked but they started serving beer at I think 6am.
This year I flew in at another crappy hour and spent most of the downtime at the bar on the second floor of
STI drinking. If you walk out the arrival door, go 50 yards ahead you will find an elevator and stairs that lead to the bar and a few shops. After being rather drunk and my girlfriend being all pissy about being tired we got a cheap (forget the rate but below the average) taxi to the bus area Metro/Caribe. We spent the next few long ass hours there trying to sleep on those hard ass stainless steel benches or chairs=sucks ass! In hide sight, I should of spend the money on a room at Zeus which has I think 50% off coupons all over the place.
@Robert, the Hotel Colonial is a fucking shithole, actually is redefines the term shithole. I've stayed there twice now and will prolly stay a couple more times but I would not suggest the place to anyone. The neighborhood is a hood, the rooms are not clean, the random cats scare the shit out of you if you stay on the 2nd or 3rd floor, the first floor has rooms but it's noisy and you can't sleep....oh and my tablet grew some legs there....
The only things I can think to add is:
1. Having a few drinks and waiting for all of the other arriving passengers to leave so you can attempt to name your own price for a taxi.
2. Bring wipes or something because neither bus terminals have toilet seats.
3.
The cunts working at the Metro terminal don't speak English and poke fun at bad Spanish....learn some Spanish.
4. Check out coupons for Zeus or another rent by the hour motel, it beats sitting on a hard ass bench for hours.
5. Don't bring a first world GF to a 3rd world country and expect her to roll with whatever....
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