We arranged a shuttle bus to take us to San Salvador ready for a flight to Miami the next day. We travelled in complete comfort with air conditioning and comfy seats via Guatemala and northern El Salvador. Even the border crossings and roads were painless. We were short of dollars for Salvador so we took out lempira from the ATM in Honduras in the safe hope of seeing a money changer at the border. That failed so we decided that we had to ask the driver to stop a...

The flight got us in early to San Salvador. We had a place to stay in mind but there was two places with the same name. Using my basic Spanish I asked the taxi driver to take us to the cheaper one that I pointed to on the map. When we checked in the cost was twice what we expected (but still cheaper than LA), we initially thought that prices had gone up a lot. After looking at the nice fittings I had my suspicions that we were in the other hotel in the nicest par...