Casa Legado
Sunny side up
Neighbourly Quinta Camacho
Make yourself at home during your stay at family owned bed and breakfast Casa Legado in Bogotá’s Quinta Camacho neighbourhood. There are just seven rooms in this bright stay – each inspired by a different member of owner Helena’s family – and breakfasts are served around the long wooden dining table each morning. Feeling active? Borrow bikes to explore the city. Keen to kick back? Soak up the sun in the courtyard garden or cosy up with a book (and a glass of regional red) by the fireplace. We’re sure you’ll feel at home: snacks and drinks wait for you in the kitchen and toe-warming hot water bottles are tucked into the sheets at night to guard against the mountain air. Your favourite friend couldn't do better. ¡Bienvenido a la família!
Facilities
Rooms
Nine, including one suite.
Checkout
Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Check-in is from 3pm to 10pm.
More Details
Rates include buffet breakfasts of fresh fruit, granola, homemade coconut yoghurt, freshly baked bread, porridge, eggs, coffee and fruit juice. Rates also include 0% tax as foreign visitors are exempt from paying VAT.
Also
The common areas might be a bit tricky, but there is one accessible bedroom with an adapted bathroom on the ground floor.
Free Internet Access
Laundry
Pet Friendly
At the Hotel
WiFi, laundry service, umbrellas and bicycles to borrow, snacks and drinks from the open kitchen. In rooms: TV, free bottled water, hot water bottles and Loto del Sur bath products.
Our Favourite Rooms
All rooms have playful wallpaper and are named after members of Helena’s family. Suds soakers can sink into a tub in the Natalia or Lucho; the latter also has a private balcony with a bright blue hammock and a bijou breakfast table.
Packing Tips
Bring your stretchy yoga kit – mats and other gear are supplied for you – for in-house sessions, which can be arranged on request.
Also
Fruit and vegetable are grown in the courtyard garden, which is draped with climbing ivy and has twin indoor-outdoor terraces. On home-movie nights, films are projected on one of the garden’s walls and cosy blankets are handed out to guests.
Children
Littles Smiths aged four-and-up are welcome to join; there are toys for tots in the garden.
Gallery
Food & Drink
Top Table
Get to know your fellow guests at the communal dining table, or take to the terrace for alfresco morning brews.
Dress Code
Make yourself at home.
Hotel Restaurant
There’s no restaurant, but breakfast at Casa Legado is a bountiful buffet of fresh fruits and juices, granolas and oatmeal, homemade coconut yogurt, freshly baked bread, local egg dishes and rich coffee. Later in the day, picnic hampers can be put together on request.
Hotel Bar
There’s no bar, but you’re welcome to help yourself to the fully-stocked fridge in the sunny kitchen.
Last Orders
Breakfast is served from 7am to 10am.
Planes
Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado is 30 minutes away by car. Hotel transfers can be arranged for US$25 each way (you’ll get yours free as a Smith Extra).
Automobiles
There’s onsite parking at the hotel, but we’d ditch the self-drive route in favour of airport pick-up and the hotel’s upright bicycles.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
Borrow one of the hotel’s photogenic bikes and pedal your way around the neighbourhood, pour yourself a glass of wine and snuggle up by the fireplace, or relax with a movie night in the garden. Achy? Thai massages can be arranged on request. And if you fancy exploring further afield, the family also owns a bucolic farmhouse two hours outside Bogotá. Called Manqué in honour of Helena’s father, it's a cosy countryside cottage that’s well worth an overnight visit. A guide will whisk you away to the farm, stopping at local arepa shacks, markets and hidden gardens along the way.
Browse for bit of locally made bling – made from recycled silver – at Colombian-Pakistani jewellery shop Aysha Bilgrami or search through the tomes at Wilborada for something to read in the garden. Make your way to Italian-inspired ice cream shop Orso and grab a cinnamon ice cream cone, caramel cookie-dough milkshake or warm chocolate-chip cookie topped with a scoop; then if your sweet treat of choice is portable, you can ramble over to Plaza Bolivar, Bogotá’s main square.
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