La Saloma Hostal

Península de Azuero


Located on the south side of the main square, this colorful guesthouse counts some 10 rooms. Five of them are in a building dating to the 1870s; the remainder are in a newer addition in the back courtyard. The rooms are pretty bare-bones – one is a four-bed dorm – and only one has its own bathroom, but the location is great.

There's a music theme going on here: saloma means 'shanty' in Spanish and rooms are named after traditional Panamanian instruments such as the stringed socavón and the tambor drums.