Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Hotel Rosas
GUESTHOUSE $$$
( 580088; hotelrosas@chile.com; Philippi 296; s/d CH$22,000/33,000; )
Eleven clean and
pleasant rooms offer heating and cable TV; some have wonderful views. Alberto, the
owner, knows heaps about the region and arranges tours to Circuito del Loro, a historical
mining site. The
restaurant
(daily special CH$5000)
, serves fresh seafood and more, and
gets crowded at meal times.
La Chispa
CAFE $
( 580054; Señoret 202; plato del día CH$4000)
Located in an old firehouse packed with
locals, who come for salmon dinners, lamb and potatoes, and other home-cooked fare.
It's a couple of blocks uphill from the water.
Club Croata
SEAFOOD $$$
( 580053; Señoret 542; mains CH$4000-10,000; 11am-4pm & 7-10:30pm Tue-Sun)
Formal
to the verge of stuffy, this restaurant serves good seafood at reasonable prices, in addition
to Croat specialties - pork chops with
chucrut
(sauerkraut). The pub is open to 3am.
Information
Banco de Estado
(cnr Philippi & Croacia)
Has a 24-hour ATM.
Hospital
( 580034; Wood, btwn Señoret & Guerrero)
Post Office
(Philippi 176)
Faces Plaza de Armas.
Tourist Office
( 580098, 580094;
www.muniporvenir.cl
;
Zavattaro 434; 9am-5pm Mon-Fri,
11am-5pm Sat & Sun)
Information is also available at the handicrafts shop on the
costanera
(seaside road) between Philippi and Schythe.
Getting There & Away
A good gravel road runs east along Bahía Inútil to the Argentine border at San Sebastián;
allow about four hours. From San Sebastián (where there's gas and a motel), northbound
motorists should avoid the heavily traveled and rutted truck route directly north and in-
stead take the route from Onaisín to the petroleum company town of Cerro Sombrero, en
route to the crossing of the Strait of Magellan at Punta Delgada-Puerto Espora.
(CH$29,000, 15 minutes) Monday to Saturday from November to March, with fewer
flights in low season. Also provides local transfer (CH$2000).
