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Hostel & coffee shop · Miraflores, Cali

Calimoves.So do we.

La Palmera's rooftop terrace: a mosaic-tiled communal table with red, yellow, blue and green chairs, potted palms, bougainvillea and string lights, with Cali's skyline beyond.
The rooftop, any afternoon
Guests dancing and high-fiving on the rooftop at dusk under string lights.
…and any night

Your new favourite family in the salsa capital of the world. Sleep, dance, drink coffee and make yourself at home.

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Welcome to the family

You arrive a stranger. You leave with twenty new friends and a group chat.

La Palmera is a renovated 1960s family house in Miraflores, one of Cali's most traditional — and greenest — neighbourhoods. Since 2022 it has been filling up with travellers who came for a few nights of salsa and stayed for the people.

Breakfast in the big kitchen. A hammock after lunch. Class in the salsa room at night, then the rooftop, then — 'are you coming?' — out to a club with the whole house. Repeat until your flight.

“Don't visit Cali, experience it!”

Guests cooking breakfast together in the communal kitchen.
A guest laughing in a striped hammock.
Guests sharing beers around a table on the terrace, under palms and a neon-style bottle mural.

Two sides of La Palmera

Same house. Two moods.

By day Coffee, laptops and a hammock with your name on it.

  1. A barista in a 'Palmera Society' T-shirt pours a V60 pour-over at the café's wooden bar, under a wall of food photographs.

    Pour-over at the bar

    Start with a V60 or a tinto from the house café.

  2. A guest working on a laptop at the long coworking table beside yellow and white breeze-block walls.

    Work under the yellow breeze blocks

    Coworking with good light, plenty of sockets and reliable Wi-Fi.

  3. A guest reading in a pink hammock on the garden lawn, beside a leafy mural.

    Siesta in the garden

    Hammocks strung between palms and ferns.

  4. Morning view from the garden: a curved stone wall, lawn, red flowers and Cali's skyline.

    Walk to San Antonio

    The colonial barrio is about 15 minutes away on foot, by the hostel's reckoning.

By night Salsa downstairs, string lights upstairs, then everybody out.

  1. A group salsa class laughing through the steps in the dance room, in front of a giant tropical mural.

    Free group class

    Salsa or bachata in the dance room, Monday to Sunday.

  2. A packed rooftop night: guests talking and dancing under string lights, with city lights behind.

    Up on the rooftop

    A bar, a view and a string of lights over Cali.

  3. Guests cooking breakfast together in the communal kitchen.

    Dinner for twenty

    The kitchen is huge — big enough for the whole table to cook together.

  4. Guests dancing and high-fiving on the rooftop at dusk under string lights.

    Out to La Topa

    The house heads to a different salsa club every night.

A curtained bunk with its own reading light, beside a sunny window and patterned tile floor.

Come find your room

Pick your side of the record.

Side A is for the sociable: four dorms, every bunk curtained with its own fan, light and sockets. Side B is for two: private doubles with a patio or a balcony. Breakfast is included either way.

ASide A — DormsYou book a bed

  1. A18-Bed Mixed Dorm8 beds in bunks · Shared bathroom · ≈18 m²
  2. A26-Bed Mixed Dorm with Private Bathroom6 beds in bunks · Private bathroom · ≈14 m²
  3. A36-Bed Dorm6 beds in bunks · Shared bathroom · ≈15 m²
  4. A44-Bed Female Dorm with Private Bathroom4 beds in bunks · Private bathroom · ≈12 m²Women only

BSide B — Private roomsYou book the whole room

  1. B1Double Room with Private Patio1 queen bed (1.60 m) · Private bathroom · ≈14 m²Private patio
  2. B2Deluxe Double Room with Balcony1 queen bed (1.60 m) · Shared bathroom · ≈14 m²Private balcony
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One, two, three… five, six, seven

Free salsa class. Every single day.

Group salsa and bachata in our own dance room, Monday to Sunday — included for every guest.

Never danced? Perfect. Most of our guests hadn't either. We start with the basic step, rotate partners and laugh a lot.

How the free classes work

One, two, three, pause, five, six, seven, pause

Two dancers practising a salsa turn in the dance room, in front of a giant mural of tropical flowers.
A group salsa class laughing through the steps in the dance room, in front of a giant tropical mural.

Want to level up?

Private salsa and bachata lessons with professional local dancers can be arranged on request.

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From the garden to the rooftop

Take the house line.

Every corner has a mood. Ride it from the hammocks to the bar on the roof.

  1. A hammock strung between palms and ferns in the lush garden.

    Garden

    Hammocks, palms, a painted hummingbird.

  2. A dog lounging on a teal pallet sofa in the gravel patio, surrounded by line-drawn murals.

    Patio

    Pallet sofas, gravel, murals and the odd visiting dog.

  3. The lobby: the rainbow 'La Palmera Hostel' mural, the poster wall, the staircase and a woman painted on a column.

    Lobby

    The rainbow mural and the poster wall.

  4. The coffee shop: wooden counter, pastry case, the pink bird mural and the wall of food photos.

    Café

    Pour-overs under the pink bird.

  5. Guests cooking breakfast together in the communal kitchen.

    Kitchen

    Room for everyone to cook at once.

  6. A guest working on a laptop at the long coworking table beside yellow and white breeze-block walls.

    Coworking

    Laptops beside the yellow breeze blocks.

  7. Two dancers practising a salsa turn in the dance room, in front of a giant mural of tropical flowers.

    Salsa room

    Mirrors, fans, a giant flower mural.

  8. The rooftop terrace in late-afternoon light: palms, mosaic tables, mismatched chairs and the bar's awning.

    Rooftop

    The bar, the view, the string lights.

Walk through the house
A barista in a 'Palmera Society' T-shirt pours a V60 pour-over at the café's wooden bar, under a wall of food photographs.

Coffee, obviously

We're in Colombia. Of course there's a café.

The house has its own coffee bar: V60, Chemex, French press, a proper tinto, cold brew for hot afternoons and cake for no reason at all.

Pour-over by day. Salsa by night.

Visit the café
Guests talking at the dining tables in front of the hand-painted weekly activity wall, framed by monstera leaves, a toucan and a frog.
The real wall, in the dining room.

The La Palmera social calendar

The week is painted on the wall.

In the dining room, the week's plan is hand-painted between toucans and monstera leaves. The details change; the rhythm doesn't.

La Palmera Hostel

  • Group salsa classEvery dayFree for guests
  • Group bachata classOn the weekly programmeFree for guests
  • Street food tourOn the weekly programmePaid
  • City tourOn the weekly programmePaid
  • Comuna 20 tourOn the weekly programmePaid
  • Night out dancingA different club each nightEntry at the door

↻ Recurring activities — times change from week to week, so check the wall or ask reception. Tours and nights out have their own costs.

All experiences

The city outside the door

Cali starts at the front gate.

San Antonio's sunsets, letterpress posters, a market full of Pacific seafood and the salsa bar everybody ends up in. All close to Miraflores.

Read our Cali guide

Real traveller love

Don't take our word for it.

Two platforms, scored separately, by people who actually stayed.

9.8/ 10HostelworldSuperb · 524 reviews
  • Security 9.9
  • Atmosphere 9.8
  • Staff 9.8
  • Cleanliness 9.8
(opens in a new tab)9.2/ 10Booking.comWonderful · 320 reviews
  • Staff 9.4
  • Cleanliness 9.4
  • Value 9.4
  • Comfort 9.3
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Checked 22 October 2026

“La Palmera Hostel in Cali is a highly social and welcoming place, renowned for its vibrant atmosphere and excellent salsa classes. Guests love the well-equipped kitchen, comfortable beds, and the friendly staff who make it feel like home.”
— Hostelworld's summary of traveller reviews

  • “This hostel and the people there made me want to extend my stay in Cali.”

    Ida · Finland · Booking.com

  • “One of the best hostels I’ve ever stayed at. The staff is very welcoming and helpful, it’s clean, has a spacious kitchen and everything else you could possibly need.”

    Emma · Germany · Hostelworld · Stayed Sept 2026

  • “Really social hostel with great common areas, lots of hammocks and a cool range of daily activities like street food tours and free dance classes. The roof terrace is great…”

    Nick · Italy · Booking.com

  • “Excelente lugar, personal amable y ambiente familiar.”

    Alberto · Colombia · Booking.com

    Written in Spanish

  • “They offer free salsa and bachata classes and plenty of tours that make it easy to socialize.”

    Berfin · Turkey · Booking.com

  • “It also has a very big kitchen which allows many people to cook at the same time.”

    Paula · Spain · Booking.com

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A packed rooftop night: guests talking and dancing under string lights, with city lights behind.

The final invitation

There's always room for one more.

Bring your worst dance moves. We'll handle the rest.

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