Best Hotels with Activities in Managua

Managua is Nicaragua's capital, spread along the southern shore of Lake Xolotlan between the crater lake of Tiscapa and the road toward Masaya volcano. Families usually base themselves in one of three pockets: Los Robles, a colonial-style grid of boutique hotels near Metrocentro mall; Villa Fontana and Carretera a Masaya, a newer corridor of business hotels close to Galerias Santo Domingo; or Carretera Norte, nearer the airport and the lakefront Malecon boardwalk. None of the three is walkable end to end with a stroller, so the real choice is which errands (mall, restaurants, a day trip to Masaya volcano) you want five minutes away instead of twenty.