6 Best Hotels in Santiago Centro, Santiago

Across from Iglesia San Francisco, this sophisticated business hotel has everything traveling executives need: spacious rooms with large beds and double-paned windows to keep out the downtown noise, a sparkling indoor pool, a fitness club, and even an art gallery. With its wood paneling and brass details, the hotel has a more regal, traditional flavor than some of the other downtown hotels.

From the gorgeous baroque facade with balconies to the original ceiling medallion from which the chandelier in the giant salon and living room hangs, it's clear that Happy House Hostel is something special. Spacious and clean, the remodeled mansion with wooden floors has loads of comfortable common space and a pool in the back with a waterfall. Three dorm-style rooms have six and eight beds each, but the remaining 23 rooms, named for different parts of Chile, are private, with or without bathrooms. A dorm bed costs 12,600 pesos and a private room just 75,000. The real prize is the private double with private bathroom for just 40,500.

Staying in this seven-story hotel across the street from Cerro Santa Lucía is like visiting an elegant old home that has seen better days. Even though the decor is dated and tired, staying here is still a good deal, and if you want a view, the best rooms are those on the upper floors overlooking Santa Lucía Hill, while rooms at the back are quieter. The rooftop restaurant and bar is also a great place to enjoy the view. Most rooms are small, but matrimonial rooms (suites)—those with a sitting area and a double bed instead of two twins—are just a few thousand pesos extra.

On the edge of the quaint Barrio París-Londres, this hotel has rooms that, although small, are airy and attractive. Amenities include a small indoor pool and a spacious café with checkered floors, wrought iron, and a glass roof. This hotel also has business on its mind, so there are plenty of meeting rooms with the latest equipment. Make sure to take a stroll on the iron bridge across Calle Londres that links the hotel's two halves.

This colonial-style building, adorned with a bullet-shaped turret, sits in the heart of the charming Barrio París-Londres. Rooms here are spacious, filled with comfortable modern furnishings, and have plenty of windows—ask for one of the two double rooms with a sitting room inside the turret, for a view of gently curving Calle Londres. The hotel also rents apartments, for a maximum of three people and minimum of three nights, in a newer nearby building.

It's hard to beat the location of this business traveler--minded hotel, which is close to Cerro Santa Lucía. Rooms, which vary in quality (the top floors have renovated rooms), are sleek and somewhat minimalist looking, and a 2014 face-lift refurbished the hotel's terrace, pool area, and other common areas. There are conference rooms and Wi-Fi throughout. Great discounts are sometimes available for rooms booked more than 30 days in advance.