Thirteen apartments built for the people who travel together — families spilling between bedrooms, friends arguing over the pool table, the cousin who flew in late and wants the jacuzzi to themselves. We live in the neighborhood. Text us when you land.
We started with two apartments and a hunch — that travelers coming to El Poblado wanted more than a keycard at a front desk. They wanted a real place to stay. Honest pricing. Someone local to text when the hot water heater started blinking.
That was almost a decade ago. The neighborhood has changed. Lleras has gotten louder. Provenza has gotten more expensive. New towers have gone up where parking lots used to be. We've changed too — from two apartments to thirteen, all within a fifteen-minute walk of one another, all in buildings we know and trust.
“Visitors are not the problem. The problem is a hospitality industry that treats Medellín as content rather than as a place.”
We rent through Booking, VRBO, and Expedia like everyone else. But those platforms charge fees, and those fees come out of your pocket. When you book direct with us — through this site or over WhatsApp — you pay the rate the apartment is actually worth, not the rate after a foreign middleman has taken their cut. The difference goes either to a discount for you, or back into the apartments themselves.
We don't pretend to be a hotel. Hotels do hotels well. We do something different: small-batch hospitality, run by people who live in this city and are accountable for every detail of every stay. If your check-in is rough, you'll know who to text. If something breaks at eleven at night, you'll know who's coming to fix it. That sounds basic. In short-term rentals, it isn't.
A manifesto is just a list of promises you intend to keep. These are ours. We test every decision against them, and when we get it wrong — and we do — we tell the guest first.
What you see is the unit you get. We don't shoot wide-angle to make a studio look like a loft. If the kitchen is small, the photo shows it that way. There are no surprises on arrival because there's nothing to surprise you with.
No resort fee. No surprise cleaning charge halfway through checkout. No mandatory tip jar. Cleaning is included in the nightly rate you see on this site. The total at the bottom is what your card is charged.
If we're cheaper on Booking than on this site for the same dates, that's our bug to fix, not a deal we're proud of. Members get an automatic tier discount on top. Every promotion we run on the site stacks on top of that.
Not a chatbot. Not a help desk in another country. Someone who lives in El Poblado and knows whether the rooftop pool is being drained this week. The number doesn't change between bookings.
Short-term rentals get a bad reputation in residential buildings for good reasons — noise, parties, absentee owners. We screen guests, enforce quiet hours, and keep our buildings on our side. We'd rather lose the booking than lose a neighbor.
Every member of the team grew up — or has lived for the last decade — within a kilometer of an apartment they look after. The barrio beside each role is where they were the morning we wrote this page.
We've turned down offers from operators who wanted to scale us. Scaling, for a hospitality business, usually means hiring further from the door. We are not interested.
“We will never be the biggest. We aim to be the most missed when we leave.”
If you're planning a stay, a wedding, a sabbatical, or you're a journalist who'd like to argue with us — write. We prefer WhatsApp because we walk a lot, but the email is read by a person.