Dirty, very basic, Chinese-run, as is the restaurant downstairs. F Ferdan , Francisco Henr quez 107 y Carvajal, T2217710, just off Av Duarte. Buses to Boca Chica and to airport 2 blocks away, large clean rooms with bath, foreigners given rooms with windows, large discounts for long stays but you will be given room on top floors where generator does not reach and suffer power cuts. For cheap rooms in hotels or casas de pensi n, or for apartments for rent for longer stays in or outside the capital, look in the classified section of daily paper, List n Diario. Rooms in the private house of Do a Hilkka, Abreu 7, near Iglesia San Carlos, central, cheap, charming.
Business travellers can often get cheaper rates than posted by requesting la tarifa comercial .
B-C Apartahotel Delta , Av Sarasota 53, T5350800. B-C Plaza Colonial , Julio Verne 4, T6879111, F6850054. Big, bare apartments, close to Zona Colonial, pool. Casa de Hu spedes Sterling , Av Bol var 5 y Parque Independencia, T6885773, next to Codetel office. C-D Aladino , H Pieter 34, T5670144.