The Hotel Comisaria was the hotel Biggles and Bertie stayed at when they reached Cruzuado in the book Orchids for Biggles. According the Peter Fotherham, the British naturalist and their local contact, the hotel was just about the best available in the town although it was really a hotel by European standards, only a posada or inn. Fotherham was well-known to the proprietor, a Mexican. The hotel stood in the main plaza next to the police station and customs office.
Of the accomodation, Bertie commented that they had certainly not struck the luxury class. The room was small and devoid of furniture. The beds had no sheets and the mattresses were hard as board. There was no running water in the room and the shower and bathrooms were in the yard outside the hotel. Nonetheless, the proprietor was proud of his establishment. "You won't find any snakes or scorpions here," was his boast. And the rustic living quarters were offset slightly by the steaks and coffee which Biggles and Bertie found to be excellent.
the Comisaria proved to be a fortuitous choice as the start point of the search for Harald Neckel, the renegade British nuclear scientist that Biggles and Bertie had been sent to track down. At the hotel, they met Dolores who would prove to be a link to Neckel. Also staying at the Comisaria was Bogosoff, a Russian. Biggles believed he was a Russian agent, probably on the same mission as himself, a fact which leant urgency to the task.
The Comisaria is a fictional hotel, as is the town of Cruzuado.