Buena Vista Boquete

Pros: Room was clean and comfortable; hot shower; top floor has a nice area for seeing the town and includes refrigerator and gas stove, as well as coffee maker and tea kettle. Reasonable fee for host doing our laundry. Hosts are very nice. Convenient walk (2-7 blocks for most needs: pharmacy, groceries, restaurants) Con: Difficult to hunt down the owner to ask a question. It is not accessible To get to the top, requires 4 sets of stairs, not including the uphill sidewalk! Being in decent shape is a must!

I had a nice, spacious room at the hostel, and the rooftop really provides a good view, as the name already indicates. It’s beautifully located, about a 10 minutes walk away from the town center. The staff explaines you hiking trails and also organizes various tours. Only problem: The reception desk was mostly empty when I got there to ask something…

My wife and I have stayed at Buena Vista twice: in July 2021 and in February/March 2022. On each occasion, we stayed for several days. It's a 5 minute walk from a cluster of Boquete's best restaurants. To me, "best" implies great food at reasonable prices. Roughly half the rooms have superb views of the town, and the other half have gorgeous, green mountain views. Owned and operated by a friendly young couple (Kristhian is Panamanian and Elizabeth is American) they took care to offer some nice touches. The rooms are immaculate. One of the rooms (the studio) has its own kitchen. Otherwise, there's a superbly clean shared kitchen on the second floor, and they offer laundry services. We appreciated that the other guests were respectful to the extent that the kitchen was kept clean. The entire top floor is a lovely hang-out area. It has comfortable, high quality lounge chairs and a table from which you could eat. The outer deck is massive, and it also includes tables from which to eat. I used the outer deck to exercise every morning, surrounded by chirping birds and the gorgeous views of the mountains and the town. It would be amazing for yoga or morning meditation. This hotel does not attract a party clientele. We mingled with young, respectful backpackers and families (from Panama and beyond). Our room had a large bed and a bunkbed for children. I think most (if not all) of the rooms had the same. WiFi was very good throughout the hotel. If you're looking for something with a great view that's chill, clean, close to everything in town and has a cool vibe, Buena Vista is the place.