We are safely returned to the faded (and fading) grandeur of the Gran Hotel Bolivar, Lima. Here, for the price of an Ibis on Commercial Road we have an entrance hall, a main bedroom with sofa and armchairs, leading off to the dining room with dining table, 6 chairs and the door to the kitchen-ette, while in the other direction the second bedroom looms and off it the bathroom, with parquet floors throughout. Chain hotels take note! Granted, there is more than a h...