At the top of Cerro el Ávila in the Wariararepano Park is the Humboldt hotel, recently restored, recovered and activated. It was built in record time between May and November 1956, 200 days had been stipulated and it was completed in 199, this at a height above sea level of 2,140 meters, it was designed by the architect Tomás José Sanábria, it was inaugurated on 29 December 1956 by General Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez President of Venezuela at that time.
This hotel complex consists of a circular tower with a 360º view with 70 rooms distributed in 19 floors that reach a height of 59.50 meters, it has an ice skating rink, of course it has a dining room and a spectacular viewpoint from where You can see different angles of the city of Caracas and the Central Coast at times of the day when it is clear, since it is very common at some times of the year that it is covered by a thick mist, it also has an indoor pool.
The Humboldt Hotel had a very short operating time from its inauguration on December 29, 1956 until 1961, mainly due to the paralysis of the cable car system, in 1965 it was given in concession to the Sheraton hotel chain, but it was never reactivated and Due to the failure and the considerable money invested in the continuous reforms that did not achieve its objective, it had to be closed, later in the 70s of the last century it was handed over to the INCE to turn it into a Study Center, turning it into a School Hotel, the cable car system was It had reactivated in 1967 but an incident in it caused this important hotel complex to be abandoned again in 1977.
In the 80s the Hotel was rescued again, which was re-opened on February 6, 1986 but due to its misuse and low profitability that made its maintenance difficult, it closed again in 1989, during that time it was used for private parties and meetings of the government of the day.
On March 23, 1998, during the second government of Dr Rafael Caldera, the Humboldt Hotel was granted a 30-year concession to the Caracas-Inverted Tourist Consortium, together with the Caracas-Litoral cable car system and related facilities, but due to the damage caused to the hotel. As for the transformation of the internal spaces in 2007, the concession was revoked for contempt and non-compliance and from August of that same year the funicular system was changed to smaller cabins but with more numbers with the benefit of transporting more people. And that is how the cable car system and the Humboldt hotel are once again under the control of the Venezuelan State.