Hostal El Gobernador

My friend and I booked that morning because the price and central Arequipa location seemed convenient. Within five minutes, we knew we'd made a bad choice. I would have given it zero stars if that had been an option. The room looked clean at first, but the floors under the bed seemed untouched for months, and there were rubbish bags tucked on the floor. There weren't even trash cans in the room. The toilet was leaking, leaving a huge puddle on the floor. When we told the staff, they mopped it, looked at the tank, and walked away after saying to wait a minute. They didn't explain that their fix was to turn off the flush. The next morning I used the toilet and it wouldn't flush. At that point, the sink was the only thing working, and honestly it would have been more hygienic to use that. The internet was awful too. Concrete walls around the hostel meant my mobile data managed only 1 Mb/s, or 3 Mb/s on a good stretch, and it kept dropping. The Wi-Fi sometimes reached 3-5 Mb/s, but was often down at 0.1 Mb/s, so slow I couldn't even run a speed test or look up ways to improve the connection. After all that, we wanted to switch hostels and get our money back, but the owner refused. We stayed the night, knowing we'd only have to put up with one night there.