San Salvador is still recovering in many ways from an extended history of violence. San Salvador can be dangerous and chaotic, but once compromising first impressions are set aside, you will discover that San Salvador's other side is: friendly, globe-conscious, cultured and even sophisticated.
The capital has many different nice places you must visit. San Salvador is well packed with anything you can think of, from hotels to shopping malls; entertainment from country clubs to bar/nightclub and theaters.
San Salvador has a really wide options of where you can stay in your visit. From really well-known chains such as Holiday Inn, Courtyard, Crown Plaza and others charging $60-$150/night to hostel such as Hostal Portada and Hostal Via Luz pricing $15/night.
San Salvador has 3 main malls:
Galerias: Within 5 minutes you will be arriving. The interesting thing about this mall is that, it is constructed on top of a beautiful monument house, that was made years ago. Galerias is a 3 floor mall with a parking space of 3 floors down. Galerias has a variety of things. Half of their stores are well-known around the world, other half are brands that are cheaper or Salvadorean brands. It consist with 2 stations of food court. In my opinion, one of the most reasons I go to Galerias is because the movie theater "Cinepolis." I consider Cinepolis as the best movie theaters from all El Salvador.
Multiplaza: Within 7 minutes you will be arriving. Multiplaza is a 3 floor mall with 3 underground floor of parking. The interesting thing about this mall is that is the Newest and modern of all. Most of the stores are well-known brands name. In addition, Multiplaza is the best on offering "Social Environment." Multiplaza has the widest variety of night life within young people. We can find the best club in El Salvador "NVY" and additionally there are few other places to socialize such as KGB(Karaoke Grill and Bar), Mai Thai (lounge bar, highly recommend), Alambiques (a somewhat club but in a more relaxing theme). In addition, Multiplaza has a movie theater but I consider it as the worst theaters.
La Gran Via: Within 8 minutes you will be arriving. La Gran Via is located 1 minute away from Multiplaza. The best of La Gran Via is that this mall is an open sky mall. In La Gran Via, you will find more restaurants than shopping stores. It also has a night life but more focused on older people, I consider it as a "Chill" place; where they like to get a cup of wine and go walk around. In addition, La Gran Via has my second best movie theater in El Salvador. But, what is the best about El Salvador??????
EL Salvador is very CHEAP!!!!! Drinks usually cost like around up to $5. National Beers cost like $2-$3. Bottles of alcohol that are considered good, in places cost no more than $40.(excluding NVY) In addition, movie tickets cost $3 everyday (except Wednesday, 50% off)
And what is better than cheap??
The Legal Drinking Age is 18 years old.
Pablo, I find your post very interesting and as usual, agree with what you say. In comparison to other countries El Salvador has low prices. I think that it important to mention the fact that our national currency is the US Dollar. Hence, making it easy for tourists to relate with prices and enjoy of not having to make a currency exchange. El Salvador might be violent and chaotic for people that live in it, however I think that for tourists is an entire different face that they see when traveling to the country. We do have some nice shopping centers in El Salvador and in fact, you forgot to mention "Metrocentro" which is the largest Shopping Center in Central America.
ReplyDeleteVery nice job... keep them coming Pablo!
This is a great help to tourist because I know when I travel the most important thing is being able to find a great hotel in the center of town that is safe and for a great price! I also love that your currency is USD that makes it so much easier to pay for things when you don't have to worry about conversions, because i am terrible at math :)
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