Bristol Hotel
Area Bancaria, Bella Vista
Located at the heart of the city, the Bristol Hotel is posh, five-star hotel that provides close access to the city’s business and entertainment districts. Fortunately, the food in the Bristol Hotel’s restaurant, the Barandas’ is usually excellent, because you’ll have to ‘dress’ to eat here. The restaurant’s focus is so elite, guests who are wearing shorts may not eat in their dining room, not even for lunch in this theoretically tropical destination.
Do ask when you make your meal reservations, to be sure they are NOT having an event in their meeting rooms; since there’s no acoustical separation between the restaurant and the Grand Colonial meeting room…with its capacity for entertaining 300 people. From personal experience, eating in the restaurant during an event is auditory torture, no matter how good the meal.
Business travelers can access the hotel’s 24-hour business center or avail themselves of spacious meeting rooms. Surprisingly the hotel even supplies personalized introductory cards for clients with their name and their hotel room’s direct phone number. All rooms come equipped with basic amenities including: high speed internet access for wired and wireless computers, fax, voice mail, cable TV, CD and DVD players.
The Bristol Hotel staff surprises many of their guests with their exceptional efforts to provide excellent services, therefore, it is considered one of Panama City’s finest hotels, even though it offers only 56 rooms at an average of $290 per night. The other section of the building is called Bristol Residences and is available for longer term luxury rentals.
