This is where we stayed
Recommended – great place, fairly basic accommodation but cheap, clean, not tatty at all, shared pool. Alan the owner is a Brit and a top guy to boot. He let us stay for the whole of the last day rather than booting us out at 10 like some do for cleaning. He was always very friendly and happy to pass on his local knowledges
The local area around el paso is great, plenty of restaurants, MTB (an awesome DH run) ~ 10-15 mins riding from the door, volcano walking a very short drive away.
I would also bery highly recommend thsi book for walkign routes and local knowledge. There’s no way we would have done such fantastic walks without this book.
For maps, I struggled to find decent large scale paper ones, so downloaded the OSM maps for my garmin and phone, and they were fine.
If you want any other routes or ideas where to go (e.g. biking) give me a shout and I’ll sort some GPXs out for you.
It really is a superb place!
PS the north is very beautiful and worth visiting however I’m glad we stayed in the south west, due to the better weather, and also there are more facilities (towns) around.