Where to stay in Medellín

El Poblado and Provenza: the easy option

Where most travellers stay, and for good reasons: restaurants, bars, specialty coffee, all walkable. It is also the most expensive, the most touristy and, in Provenza, the loudest at night. If it is your first time and you want zero friction, this is the obvious choice.

Laureles: the real city

A flat, tree-lined residential neighbourhood, with La Setenta for going out and a street life El Poblado has lost. More reasonable prices, local people, and an excellent metro connection. This is what we recommend to repeat visitors, or to anyone who wants the city rather than the tourist circuit.

Envigado: quiet and paisa

To the south, with a square, a church and a small-town feel inside the metropolitan area. Quieter and more family-oriented, with very good traditional food. It is a bit further from the centre, but for private tours that makes no difference: pickup is included.

The centre: better by day than by night

It concentrates what you will visit — Botero Plaza, the Cathedral, the Palacio Nacional — but it is not where you sleep comfortably: after dark it changes character and the hotels there are aimed at a different kind of trip. Walk it by day and sleep elsewhere.

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