In fairness I didn't stay here. I went in late night after a 16 hour trip and was prepared to pay just about anything...but having seen a room I wasn't prepared to spend it on such mediocrity. Bathroom small, beds dingy, no AC, sterile decor...and no number of pretty flags out the front and monogrammed sheets makes this worth 270 s/ for a triple. Around the corner was the Pillkay hostel that has better rooms for less than half of the price. And by the way if one is going to try and pass oneself off as an international hotel one simply cannot park one's Vespa in the hallway. It doesn't really look the part. Shame, as it's well positioned and accessible to the centre of Trujillo. It needs to be taken in hand.

This was a very interesting hotel. It took them three tries to get us a room that was inhabitable. The first was near where they were constructing the rooms (it's been in business since 2005, but there are many rooms that are still unfinished), and it smelled horribly of paint. The second room had a leak from the bathroom, and the water had gotten all over the floor and the bedding. The third room was OK, but was quite moldy (strange in a desert climate).

There was abundant hot water, an acceptable free breakfast, and the personnel were warm and patient with us. They gave us a complementary pisco sour on our arrival, secured our valuables and put them in the safe, gave us extra pillows, and let us store our luggage so that we could take one last walk around before we had to leave for our bus.

One word of warning: Trujillo is not for the faint of heart, apparently. As we were walking, not far from the center of the city, a thief took our camera right off the strap that my wife was holding it by. We ran after him, and fortunately a "sereno" (watchman) stopped him and we were able to recover the camera. Of course, we spent several hours in the comisaria (police station), and missed our bus. I will say that the police and the populace were extremely nice. The people were genuinely mortified and were very helpful, and the police helped us make alternate transportation plans. As we were riding in the police car, one of them pointed out which streets were just "dangerous" (most of them), and which were "superdangerous" (the rest of them). Trujillo has beautiful Plaza de Armas, excellent restaurants, and great archeological sites, but be careful.