This hotel is on the ocean about a 40 minute walk from downtown Vina Del Mar. Price of a taxi to the downtown is $20 American, and a bus is roughly 50 cents. The view is wonderful, but the staff is impersonal and not very helpful. For instance, I inquired as to the hours of the Casino and was told by the owner that it was open 24 hours every day. Not so! Further, the staff did not assist in information about the town or did the staff bother to find out - to help a tourist. More, the breakfast was awful! Fruit costs extra, whereas, all the other hotels (in and out of Santiago) charge nothing more for fruit, in fact the breakfast options are plentiful. Not true of Hotel Oceanic. The price was $146/per night (not cheap). We left after two nights and went downtown to the Hotel Monterillo, which was like night and day. The dinner at Hotel Oceanic was great! Though somewhat pricey, it was delicious; however, the waiters and other staff all seem to be walking on eggshells...little spontaneity and a stilted atmosphere. Very odd indeed.