Posada la bonita/Yacutinga lodge
Aug 8th, 2006, 10:48 AM
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Posada la bonita/Yacutinga lodge
Has anyone been to either Posada La Bonita, or Yacutinga Lodge in Misiones? We're looking for a place to relax and enjoy nature for 4 day in December. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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Aug 8th, 2006, 12:28 PM
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I copied and pasted something I wrote in 2005 for you.
Author: connette
Date: 01/11/2005, 12:31 pm
We just returned at the end of December. The birding was fantastic. Accommodations, guides and food were very good too. It is young rain forest as they have reclaimed land that was used for cattle. Electricity only from 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.- but it is not a problem at all. You ride in on a flat bed truck with seats for 2 hours. Not uncomfortable, but you get covered with the reddest dirt I have ever seen. It is next to impossible to get out of your clothes. If you have a flight out and cannot shower before hand, take clothes to change in to at the airport. If you arrange different transfer times (their's are only at 2:00 p.m.) you could ride in something else. I think it would cost only a bit more. We arranged it thru Cintia at wow Argentina, recommended often on this board. She could check the different options for you. It was definitely worth it! I could not find any info except the website before we went. They also have night hikes and had just finished filming a dutch survivor show a few days prior to our arrival. We saw some of the "sets".
Author: connette
Date: 01/11/2005, 12:31 pm
We just returned at the end of December. The birding was fantastic. Accommodations, guides and food were very good too. It is young rain forest as they have reclaimed land that was used for cattle. Electricity only from 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.- but it is not a problem at all. You ride in on a flat bed truck with seats for 2 hours. Not uncomfortable, but you get covered with the reddest dirt I have ever seen. It is next to impossible to get out of your clothes. If you have a flight out and cannot shower before hand, take clothes to change in to at the airport. If you arrange different transfer times (their's are only at 2:00 p.m.) you could ride in something else. I think it would cost only a bit more. We arranged it thru Cintia at wow Argentina, recommended often on this board. She could check the different options for you. It was definitely worth it! I could not find any info except the website before we went. They also have night hikes and had just finished filming a dutch survivor show a few days prior to our arrival. We saw some of the "sets".
Aug 8th, 2006, 03:26 PM
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Sorry, what a bonehead. I didn't realize that I left off the topic from the post in 2005. No, actually I was referring to Yucatinga. That is the only one of the 3 you mentioned that we have stayed at. We have stayed at about 10 ecolodges over the years and I would say that Yucatinga was really special. Primarily because of the accommodations, food and unbelievable birding.
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Yacutinga is quite near Iguazu falls.
It is a very expensive place where you can live the jungle experience.
La Bonita, Enrique and Mision are the best lodges in the Mocona area. Prices are much lower than those in Yacutinga where there is only 1 lodge.
The distance between Iguazu and Mocona is of about 4 hours. The 3 places are to be recommended.
It is a very expensive place where you can live the jungle experience.
La Bonita, Enrique and Mision are the best lodges in the Mocona area. Prices are much lower than those in Yacutinga where there is only 1 lodge.
The distance between Iguazu and Mocona is of about 4 hours. The 3 places are to be recommended.
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I just returned this morning from a two-week trip to Argentina with my husband.
We, too, wanted to spend a few days "communing" with nature and, having stayed at a wonderful rainforest lodge in Costa Rica, we decided to spend three nights at La Bonita as it seemed to be very similar.
We arrived with a private transfer from P. Iguazu after dark and were shown directly to our cabin (one of the cabanas del cerro, on top of the hill).
The cabin was lovely (except for the fact that the toilet was pretty much right there in the room, which became an issue for us as you will read further on) and the view was wonderful.
But, I was immediately struck that no one from La Bonita came over to greet us or welcome us (they directed our driver to the cabin), to introduce us to the lodge and to show us where we could find the things we might need.
After dinner the night of our arrival, my husband became ill (not from the dinner at La Bonita, but a bad case of traveller's diarrhea picked up somewhere before hand).
By morning he was violently ill and I started to panic. La Bonita is far from any mid-sized town (four hours from P. Iguazu and five hours from Posadas). Plus, the last stretch of road is, muddy, tortuous, long, and very bumpy.
Usually, my Spanish is enough to get me by, but when the panic set in, out went all the Spanish I thought I knew.
Although the website is bilingual and all the e-mails I received were in English, the couple living and working on site didn't speak a word of English. It made for a very overwhelming situation.
I was able to reach my wonderful travel agent, Isabel (from Buenos Aires Tours) although the phone connection was pretty bad. She immediately researched what our options were and phoned us several times at the lodge to check up on us and update us on our options.
In contrast, the couple on site was no help whatsoever! Had it been a more serious emergency requiring medical attention, I shudder at the thought of what would have happened.
By the next day, while my husband was still sick, I came down with the same thing! Now, neither of us could eat (what a bargain we were for them! We paid over $100 a night and barely ate a bowl of rice between the two of us in three days!) and we could barely leave the cabin. (At that point, my husband was feeling slightly better than me and took over phone duties to make arrangements with Isabel.)
I think the woman who worked there even told Isabel that we simply didn't feel like leaving our cabins!
We would have left much sooner, but neither of us could make the long journey back, especially on the bumpy mud road. So, we stewed in the cabin for three very long days and nights alone.
The trip to Mocona Falls sounded wonderful, but as for hiking trails on site, there only seemed to be the continuation of that dirt road that winds down the mountain for 3km.
There are lots of pictures of paths and waterfalls on their website, but I never saw them.
I am sure I would have felt differently if things hadn't taken such a bad turn (other guests we met seemed content), but I was really, really disappointed with the service and hospitality (or lack thereof).
For that reason, I don't think I could recommend this place.
We, too, wanted to spend a few days "communing" with nature and, having stayed at a wonderful rainforest lodge in Costa Rica, we decided to spend three nights at La Bonita as it seemed to be very similar.
We arrived with a private transfer from P. Iguazu after dark and were shown directly to our cabin (one of the cabanas del cerro, on top of the hill).
The cabin was lovely (except for the fact that the toilet was pretty much right there in the room, which became an issue for us as you will read further on) and the view was wonderful.
But, I was immediately struck that no one from La Bonita came over to greet us or welcome us (they directed our driver to the cabin), to introduce us to the lodge and to show us where we could find the things we might need.
After dinner the night of our arrival, my husband became ill (not from the dinner at La Bonita, but a bad case of traveller's diarrhea picked up somewhere before hand).
By morning he was violently ill and I started to panic. La Bonita is far from any mid-sized town (four hours from P. Iguazu and five hours from Posadas). Plus, the last stretch of road is, muddy, tortuous, long, and very bumpy.
Usually, my Spanish is enough to get me by, but when the panic set in, out went all the Spanish I thought I knew.
Although the website is bilingual and all the e-mails I received were in English, the couple living and working on site didn't speak a word of English. It made for a very overwhelming situation.
I was able to reach my wonderful travel agent, Isabel (from Buenos Aires Tours) although the phone connection was pretty bad. She immediately researched what our options were and phoned us several times at the lodge to check up on us and update us on our options.
In contrast, the couple on site was no help whatsoever! Had it been a more serious emergency requiring medical attention, I shudder at the thought of what would have happened.
By the next day, while my husband was still sick, I came down with the same thing! Now, neither of us could eat (what a bargain we were for them! We paid over $100 a night and barely ate a bowl of rice between the two of us in three days!) and we could barely leave the cabin. (At that point, my husband was feeling slightly better than me and took over phone duties to make arrangements with Isabel.)
I think the woman who worked there even told Isabel that we simply didn't feel like leaving our cabins!
We would have left much sooner, but neither of us could make the long journey back, especially on the bumpy mud road. So, we stewed in the cabin for three very long days and nights alone.
The trip to Mocona Falls sounded wonderful, but as for hiking trails on site, there only seemed to be the continuation of that dirt road that winds down the mountain for 3km.
There are lots of pictures of paths and waterfalls on their website, but I never saw them.
I am sure I would have felt differently if things hadn't taken such a bad turn (other guests we met seemed content), but I was really, really disappointed with the service and hospitality (or lack thereof).
For that reason, I don't think I could recommend this place.
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