Hotel Finca Lerida

So, our stay was a mix of good and not so good. The location of Finca Lerida is lovely. The walks are good and the wildlife plentiful. The coffee tour is fantastic - the whole process and explanation really interesting. The place lets itself down is a coue of ways. First is the restaurant - the only place to have a meal on site (there is a place for coffee and cake and the "Gastropub" which is supposed to open 3 or 4 nights a week but only opened once during our stay and they weren't serving any food). The main restaurant is cold in the evening and yet they left both doors open to the outside. There were customers sitting in the restaurant, wearing their cold weather jackets!! That might have been a clue. The food was generally good - the kitchen do a good job - but if you're planning to eat with children (we weren't), you'll struggle to find much and it will be expensive. Finally, although we expected it to be cold at altitude, the rooms were also cold and there was no way to add a bit of heat. They were àlso noisy - no sound proofing between the rooms and the plumbing is noisy. So, there were good bits and not so good bits. Overall, for the price being charged, we felt it could have been so much better with a little thought and focus on what the customer might want.

This is a beautiful Coffee Farm with flowers everywhere and trails for hiking around. We stayed for 5 nights, two of which we were upgraded to a junior suite that has a jacuzzi and 2 fireplaces. The regular rooms are comfortable with a wonderful view from your porch and hammock. The walls are very thin so you hear everything from the neighbors, which in our case, was a screaming child having an endless tantrum that the mother seemed to ignore. We had to move to another room. The junior suites are large and very nice, but I don't recommend using the fireplace in your room as they are poorly designed and you you will have a room full of smoke and all of your clothing will reek like fire. Ask the staff to start your fire using the fireplace on your porch. The coffee tour is excellent, I recommend it. Lots of hummingbirds too and painted bird houses. The food in the restaurant was good, but the older breakfast waitress is a sourpuss when serving your complimentary breakfast. No coffee maker's in the room, but it is one of the few places that serves local coffee.