Author Topic: Finding a Hot Shower in Cartagena (Read 4837 times)

OrlandoGringo · « **on:** April 19, 2011, 05:20:06 AM »

Short of staying at a hotel that has hot water does anyone know of any places in Cartagena where one can go to take a freaking hot shower?

Researcher · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2011, 05:41:27 AM »

hehehe, OrlandoGringo are there many places anywhere in Colombia to find a hot shower? Last year I stayed with my wife's family in Bogota and it took a fews days to thaw out when we returned. Hot water is pretty much a luxury there.

Researcher

raycjs · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2011, 06:58:46 AM »

HOT WATER........ I thought that was what the 55 gal drum in the shower filled with water was for..... jajajajaja oh that's right.... that's is to keep it room temperature... the only place i was able to take a hot shower was at the Dann Carlton Hotel...

good luck with finding hot water

Ray

Planet-Love.com · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2011, 06:58:46 AM »

utopiacowboy · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2011, 04:59:45 PM »

For a while I thought that everyone in Colombia had hot water - it wasn't until much later that I discovered this was far from the case.

robert angel · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2011, 05:06:42 PM »

Yet another thing the Philippines has in common with S.A. apparently. In most places in the Philippines, hot showers aren't found. Even in mid range hotels in the bigger cities, you may have to sometimes tell them to 'fire up' an auxiliary water heater, because you want to take what might be a warm more than truly hot shower and a short one at that.

Then again, those early morning, ice cold showers out in there in the boondocks really wake you up more than any hot cup of coffee ever could!

Colgando · « **Reply #5 on:** April 19, 2011, 05:29:34 PM »

The hot shower I took when I got back home from Colombia was heaven!

Interesting and good to know that hot water is a luxury in Colombia, have proper expectations. Good thing is my body adjusted to the colder water after a few minutes in the shower. Probably a little more than anyone cared to know about my shower experience.....jejejeje

The shower I had in Colombia was warm at best.

euforia51 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 19, 2011, 09:01:08 PM »

Man, I guess for those staying in and around Cartagena and BAQ where its already hotter than hell anyway, maybe don't need the hot water? **shrug** When I started looking at places to stay for my first trip to Medellin, I found agua caliente to be an advertising point in a few of the hotels. I thought that was kind of humorous. So I asked Glory to make sure the place she reserved for me had it. Turns out the apartamento in Laureles for my first trip had one of those cool tankless water heaters; and it worked great.

OrlandoGringo · « **Reply #7 on:** April 20, 2011, 06:59:48 AM »

Thanks guys. Maybe I should build some showers and rent them out to tourists!

I guess I'm your typical gringo capitalist.

CalifSur · « **Reply #8 on:** April 20, 2011, 08:46:53 AM »

I stayed two nights at a hotel in Cartagena earlier this month. The shower was lukewarm at best.

fathertime · « **Reply #9 on:** April 20, 2011, 10:04:05 AM »

i reaally don't enjoy cold showers and will probably never get used to them so even if the weather is warm i want the shower to be at a minimum luke-warm...

Fathertime!

OrlandoGringo · « **Reply #10 on:** April 20, 2011, 10:56:11 AM »

My fiance laughs at me for acting like such a panzy when it comes to the "cold" water from the shower. She says it's normal. I say it's freaking cold! I guess that's the trade off for staying in a cheap hotel.

I'm going down in June for a week and am taking my eight year-old son with me. We're staying at the Hilton for that one! Their showers are toasty hot!

no comment · « **Reply #11 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:04:56 AM »

They're raised to be tough in SA, at least in regards to cold showers. My Peruvian wife can handle it because she's used to it. She didn't grow up with a hot water heater, and in fact the water service in her part of the city is only for part of the day. You just have to get psyched before you step under the water.

fathertime · « **Reply #12 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:38:02 AM »

i think my woman also thinks i'm a wuss with the warm water...with our little infant boy, she was using water that I thought was too cold for him when we bathed him...so i've been gradually warming it up little by little...his little chubby face is quite adorable in his warm water bath, but he also seemed happy when the water was barely luke-warm too.

Fathertime!

Planet-Love.com · « **Reply #12 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:38:02 AM »

Researcher · « **Reply #13 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:49:57 AM »

So I guess it would be safe to assume that women in SA know about shrinkage...hehehe..I was in the pool! I was in the pool!

Researcher

fathertime · « **Reply #14 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:53:47 AM »

Quote from: no comment on April 20, 2011, 11:04:56 AM

They're raised to be tough in SA, at least in regards to cold showers. My Peruvian wife can handle it because she's used to it. She didn't grow up with a hot water heater, and in fact the water service in her part of the city is only for part of the day. You just have to get psyched before you step under the water.

hey nc, there may come a time when her cold shower coping skills willl be necessary here in the USA as well, I would think that hot showers would be a part of the cuts our society will need to make someday in the distant future, just like most of the rest of the world...but I sure hope not!

Fathertime!

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