Summary:
Che Guevera stayed in room 21, according to Mario. His brother who was working here at the time confirmed this. That room was available the night I stayed there, and I considered it. However the bathroom was out of service. I took creature comfort over a sense of history and took another room. The next day I found out they moved Ches bed to room 10 several years back.

Details or Sample:
I first read about this place in the Rough Guide to Central America when I was doing some pre trip planning. I had a good idea I might be transiting through Guatemala City and therefore might need a cheap place to crash for the night. There was something about this place that made it stick out from the others listed.

That something was the fact that both Fidel Castro and Che Guevera had stayed there in the past, the later for an extended period of time. Im not a particular fan of either and especially so of the political legacy they left in Cuba, but they are intriguing to say the least. Were some of the plans for the guerrilla campaign in the Cubas Sierra Mastre perhaps worked out in this seedy little Guatemalan Pension? Soon, as is often the case, my imagination was running rampant.

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