MARILU'S BED AND BREAKFAST

Close to Providencia Avenue and Salvador Metro Station, Marilu`s Bed & Breakfast offers you privacy and convenience in a chilean home-like atmosphere. The Providencia area is the perfect destination to stay in Santiago; guests will enjoy browsing through the nearby shops. A few minutes away you will find SERNATUR (Chilean Tourist Information Board), the Bellavista neighborhood, a Chilean craft shop and Parque Metropolitano (San Cristobal hill). Nearby are restaurants, the Downtown area and Suecia Street, famous for its Pubs and night entertainment. We are very close to "Las Torres de Tajamar", from where some bus-lines go out to the North & South of Chile We offer quiet simplicity, where quality service and friendship are valued. We offer charming and comfortable guestrooms (with private bathroom or shared bathroom with one room). View our CNN video interview in order to meet us in person.

"Helped along the way in Chile" by LYNDA HOWLAND
Pittsford, NY. INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL NEWS, September 1999
"I found myself traveling alone in Chile in May '99, and my extremely limited command of Spanish proved to be a significant barrier to getting around and joining tour groups in Patagonia. The B&B in which I stayed in Providencia section of Santiago was excellent. It is owned by Marilu Cerda, a friendly and helpful woman who speaks excellent English.... The off season rate for an immaculately clean and nicely furnished room was $25 ( dollars ) And this included a substantial breakfast. ...Marilu showed me around the neighborhood, accompanied me on a bus ride to teach me how to navigate around Santiago, and arranged inexpensive transportation to the airport.

Even if it is a litle late we wantet to say thank you so much for all your help, while we were staying in Chile. You made our trip a lot more easy, and your home felt like the home of our own family. We are now back i Denmark, back to study and work, back to a really cold winther and back to not always a pleasent reallity. Besides that...... everything is going just fine and the time is running. You gave us a very pleasent stay, we won´t forget Thank you so much
Hugs from Denmark Charlotte& Charlotte (and also a hello from our two danish friends you met) We have send two pictures with this email. One with the two of us and Anthony, and one with the red hair...

Hi, My stay at Marilu's B&B couldn't have been better. I found the rooms very clean and comfortable. From the moment I arrived, I felt like a part of the family instead of a guest, Marilu speaks very good English. The breakfast was very Chilean, and very good. The location is quiet and convenient, close to the metro and micro travel. I would recommend this hostel to anyone visiting Santiago, it was GREAT! Thank You! Gene

We are finally home and feeling settled again in Alaska. I don't know how to thank you for everything you did for us during our stay in Santiago. I will, of course, place very positive reviews on Web sites where your B&B is mentioned.
Although I have not written a tourism oriented travel story yet, here is a different kind of travel story where I do mention you: http://www.hitchedmag.com/article.php?id=144
Here is the section:
DAY 18
Situation: We had arranged a babysitter to take care of Noa at our bed and breakfast in Chile so we could attend a conference. The babysitter calls in sick a few hours before the conference's opening event.

Response: We explain our predicament to Marilu, the owner of Marilu's Bed and Breakfast in Santiago where we are staying. She immediately makes calls and finds us a sitter. Although she can't find one person to cover all four days of the conference, she arranges three different sitters to handle the entire job. We, in turn, realize we have to trust total strangers in a foreign country with our baby. At times like this, trusting one another is just as important as trusting others. We trusted that we were making the right decision given the circumstances, and we made the decision jointly. Everything worked out well. Noa learned how to be with new people and we learned that we could be adaptable to new situations. Thanks to you, Marilu, we made it through an entire conference!
All the best to you and best wishes for a happy holiday and new year, Aliza