GRAN MELIA CARACAS

Dangerous Location

This is a great big, beautiful hotel with all the amenities you would expect from a 5 star hotel. The problem is safety. The area that the Gran Melia is in was once a clean, beautiful area where people shopped and played chess outdoors. It is now a somewhat dangerous area of town where you really are better off if you "dress down", do not carry a purse or a camera or other valuables, and do not ever let down your guard. Yes, you can still go there and be perfectly safe doing so....but you never want to forget your surroundings or flaunt wealth.
The location limits things a bit because you really cannot walk from the hotel to any place--it isn't safe. You will have to get your car brought to you each time and drive.

Unique Quality: Wonderful Tapas bar in the hotel with Flamenco dancing shows.

Caracas' great big hotel

Terrible sorroundings...

This is a 5 ***** hotel with all the facilities, restaurants, night life, everything you can think of, located (just one block away) in one of the most filthy, scary, dangerous and horrible avenues: huge boulevard of Sabana Grande. (Please check my warning pages and read all about the "buhoneros").

I would certanly arrive to this hotel only if I could stay inside all the time or come and leave on a taxi. NO WALKING AROUND in the streets near by.

Unique Quality: It has everything and I have been told they are great. I feel very sorry for the owners of the Meliá. When they builted it, the Sabana Grande was a huge, clean, beautiful boulevard full of cafés and shops. Not with our new governement who has promoted the "informal economy" and the streets are a nightmare (and smell horrible as well). Please go check the "buhoneros" issue in the dangers in Caracas.

Too bad.
Great hotel.

• Opinion of Price: more expensive than average

GRAN MELIA CARACAS Photo: Hotel Meli�� Caracas

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Nice, but expensive

Melia Caracas is a very nice hotel, it features a nice gym too with an indoor pool. No extra fee for guests. Rooms are spacious and comfortable. There is a surcharge for the broadband internet. In compare with the Embassy Suites in the same city where it is free, and food can be a bit pricey, a salmon sandwich, a cheese plate and a coke USD59,00 :-\ . Taxis out of the hotel are pricey too. Minimum charge is about 6.00USD which is a bit over venezuelan standards.

Unique Quality: Take your breakfast in the terrace, nice weather, or lunch in the pool. As I said before, gym is great. It is next to a mall so if you need something is just a few steps away. Complete set of in room amenities if you are traveling on business you'd find it useful. Jacuzzi tub.