Brainstorming sessions here at Los Cuatro Tulipanes are generally organized and to-the-point. And while we tend to diverge from the traditional style of meetings in that large quantities of domestic beers are generally consumed, we do regularly come up with useful ideas that make Tulipanes a better place to stay.

It was a gloomy Saturday afternoon when Elida, our maid, approached me in a seemingly-concerned state to reveal she had found something alarming in the Mendez apartment.

In the heart of slow season, there is a lot of down time during which I like to bond with Elida the maid. Well, it isn't as much bonding as me trying to think of useful things for her to do during the six hours she's scheduled to work everyday.

In constantly searching for ways to better promote Los Cuatro Tulipanes, we were recently approached by FASHION Magazine to be a feature hotel in an article they were doing on Panama. When one editor arrived wearing a cowboy hat and bug-eyed glasses, I knew from the start that we’d never live up to their standards.

There’s a man known in Casco Antiguo simply as Bocas. His look is non-threatening like that of a dove and he knows, or at least pretends to know, everything important about the old quarter.

The title of owning a hotel sounds as impressive as that of a racecar driver. And while this isn't exactly a hotel in the traditional sense, the actual particulars of it are about as sexy and glamorous as Victoria’s Secret senior citizen line of lingerie.

Los Cuatro Tulipanes interviews Enrique Restrepo of Casco Viejo, a company which restores buildings in our historic district. Enrique, being a Panamanian from Veraguas Province originally caught sight of Casco Viejo when writing his graduate thesis, which was published at the time, as arguably the most complete study of this UNESCO World Heritage site to date.