PirateJeff

Looking for something high end (eg. suites), 4-5 stars at each destination. For PEI I am thinking Movich?

SJOGuy

While I know it's FlyerTalk talk to shorthand city names to their airport codes, I doubt many people will even know where "PEI" is. Is it Pereira, Colombia? To me, "PEI" refers to Prince Edward Island.

For San Jose, Costa Rica, you'll get more people viewing your request in the Central America forum.

JohnnyColombia

Well this is the South America forum and I knew what PEI means

Movich is the only upmarket hotel in Pereira. Why are you travelling? I have yet to work out why anyone would want to go there. I suppose it is ideal for wealthy Colombian businessmen or sex tourists. Hapless location for seeing the sights of the coffee zone though.

SJOGuy

That's because you're in Colombia. I suspect that most of us would have to look it up. I sure did.

PirateJeff

Ouch? I'm visiting the in-laws.

JohnnyColombia

But you knew SJO Consider it a learning experience. I often have to look up IATA codes. PEI is an international airport and now has a new flight to JFK technical stop in CTG. Very cool airport. You land on a sort of shelf and then look down and wonder how you didn't roll into the valley

Won't they become suspicious when you engage in multi-billion peso business deals or take attractive teenagers back to your room?

Some nice finca options in the area if you are interested in that.

JohnnyColombia

Here is a great option if you are prepared to be a bit outside the city

http://www.sazagua.com/english_page/index.php

PirateJeff

Are you messing with me or you seriously think I'm traveling to PEI to look for prostitutes?

The in-laws live in the city (which I prefer) and actually have a finca on the outskirts, but tentatively I am only committing to a day trip out there.

PirateJeff

My first time at PEI I landed at night. For a split second I thought they ditched the plane into the mountain. This was on AeroRepublica some years ago and the plane seemed to be aging badly. The overheads were held down with bungee cords.

Interesting story behind that, arrived in BOG from MIA three hours late due to mx and AV basically told me to pack sand if I thought I was getting to PEI that day. Ended up at the AA office somewhere on the other side of the airport arguing in broken Spanish (I'm much better now), after about 30 minutes I assume they became fed up with me and walked over to the AeroRepublica counter to buy me a new ticket (saw them swiping the AA manager's credit card).

Not sure what the deal was exactly. It was my first time to Colombia and my logic at the time was to request paper tickets so that I didn't run into any e-ticketing issues at BOG, but this ended up being a point of contention as they said they couldn't help me reschedule due to holding paper tickets?

Was a bit of an adventure, but ended up in PEI only ~9 hours late :P

JohnnyColombia

Yes

SJOGuy

That's because I live in Costa Rica.

My real point is that I've never understood the use of airport codes here when talking about a city. Whether anyone knows what PEI is or not -- it's not exactly as well known as BOG -- I assume the OP is not staying at PEI, the airport.

Buried deep in the South America forum is a thread I remember started by a guy who said something like:

bingocallerb22

I know a couple of folks with this pet peeve. I use PEI because I simply do not know how to spell Periera in Columbia.

SJOGuy

Oh, not a pet peeve as much as a source of amusement when people here ask, "I'm headed to ORD. Any recommendations for good nightlife there?"

I can't resist. There's also that same problem with, um, Colombia.

bingocallerb22

Yes.

Herb687

It's the Flyertalk South America forum not the Canadian Maritimes one. OP is presumably looking for hotel recs from people who have actually been to PEI (that's Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia, South America for the uninitiated). I'd wager that anyone who could actually provide OP with relevant advice and recommendations knows the airport code for Pereira.

If you don't know the code PEI, you're unlikely to be able to add value to OP's query.

Ok, rant off, now how's the beach in ADZ?


I do have a pet peeve when the ignorant use AIRPORT codes when they are clearly referring to multi-airport cities or metro areas that have CITY codes.

BUE, CHI, LON, MOW, RIO, SAO, TYO etc. are all perfectly good aviation-speak when referring to cities/metro areas rather than airports.