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Apartment?

You mean hotel or hostel or apartment hotel?

Try Bellavista or Lastarria

Eg:
www.barriolastarria.com

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Metro will take you anywhere. Bike only near your neigborhood but enough to enjoy. No car is needed>

Apartments are easy to find and better than hotels...$ 4-700 per week are available. Try vrbo.com/ santiago. Providencia is good , busy and modern , residentiall but shopping malls and more everywhere. It is away from downton . Suggest staying around Pedro de Valdivia Metro station, a very decent location. From here you can safely bike along park type avenues ( forgot names but I have done them ) then bike up to Cerro San Cristobal, a city/zoo mountain in Bellavista neighborhood...another desirable area for night life and restaurants.
Good luck

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You guys are so right about Bellavista, it looks beautiful! I've been able to find some apartments that sit right between Bellavista and Providencia for a pretty good price.

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Also check out barrio brasil and barrio yungay! Both very cultural and great for cycling and barrio yungay has a cultural heritage route which you can cycle or walk. Bellavista (also arty & cultural) is more central though, if you're also looking to explore providencia etc.

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My recommendations:

• Lastarria: charming area, close to everything, great bars and restaurants, 2 metro stations, close to the park.
• Bellas Artes: same as above
• Bellavista: lovely, but it can be a little noisy and dangeorus at night.
• Brasil: absolutely nice, quiet neighborhood, a little outside centro, but with a metro station and plenty of buses.

Providencia is also a good option, but it is comuna (or a district? bigger than a neighborhood), so there are plenty of neighborhoods to choose from.