Trip Report - Lima Peru - Atlantic City

I'm in Lima on business and was staying in Miraflores, the touristy-area of Lima. The area is clean and safe (even at 2am).
In my research, I read that Atlantic City's poker room is, by far, the most popular in Lima so I only visited that casino, an easy 1/2 mile walk from my apartment. The poker room is on the second floor of the casino, easily found from the main entrance. The entire casino is non-smoking (nice!). In the poker room there is a lounge area for seating and enjoying drinks (free) from the bar. All the drinks I saw served were soft (soda, coffee, tea), though; I'm not sure if they served booze and it wasn't a consideration for me.
Joke time:

What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bi-lingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language? American.

Most of the staff only spoke Spanish. I, unfortunately, do not. There was a floor manager who spoke English enough for us to communicate and for him to help coordinate with the cashier and dealers, when necessary.
The poker room is incredible: Everything is fresh and new. The poker-felt was fast and the poker chips were clean. Staff were sharply dressed and took pride in their appearance.
I had stopped in Monday evening but missed my opportunity to play in the ongoing tournament (being my preference). I learned the next tournament was on Wednesday at 8pm and would cost S/.500 (500 Peruvian Sol). The current exchange rate is PEN3.24 to US1, so PEN500 is US$154. Important note: US currency is welcome at the cage and they exchange at bank rates! This is incredible, they don't jack up the cost to exchange money.
I showed up on Wednesday about 15 minutes early. There were two cash games going of indeterminate stakes. I had communication issues with the cashier trying to buy into the tournament and we flagged down the Floor who set things straightPerhaps I was confused or the price was lower tonight. I was seated at an empty table in seat 5 (of 10). A dealer quickly was seated so I wasn't alone.
At 8pm the two cash tables stopped playing and everyone got up and headed to the cage to buy in to the tournament. We started with two tables, eventually spreading to three. Starting chips were T13,000 with an extra T10,000 handed out by the Floor to everyone who started the tournament. I'm unclear if that was because we were there at 8pm for the start, or because everyone was playing cash games going into the tournament and I was included as a courtesy.
There was a wide-range of players, but no one was too crazy. We started at 50/100. I managed to communicate as-needed with basic numbering (uno, dos, tres) and/or sign-language. Having a variety of chips denominations was helpful to avoid any one-chip issues on my raises. Otherwise, I let the chips and cards speak for themselves. I wasn't the only non-Spanish speaker, a couple of others in the game only spoke French.
Initially, the levels were 20 minutes long. Strangely, when a round was over, the clock auto-stopped but play would continue for several minutes until the Floor announced the next round and restarted the clock. We'd often get several additional hands in off-the-clock.
I got knocked out about an hour in and rebought for PEN200 which got me T13,000. A couple of hours in, we took a 25 minute dinner break which was a free hot buffet (!). During the lunch break, the spun up the roulette and blackjack table in the corner. There was an add-on, at this point. For PEN100 you got T25,000 - a shockingly large amount for such a small price.
After lunch, rounds were reduced to 15 minutes and we introduced antes. Round 7 was 500/1000/100. I was knocked out in round 11 (about midnight) when the rounds were reduced again to 12 minutes! At that point, the blinds were 2000/4000/400.
From translating the board, there were 25 players left out of 38 initial+rebuys. 28 players did the add-on for a prize pool of PEN9,360 (US$2,888) and 1,194,000 chips in play. Unfortunately, I did not get any info on the payout structure.
I was really impressed with the room and would gladly play there again. Reflecting on my game, I played far too passively - I think I was concerned about trying to understand and catch any differences in the play from what I was used to. So, don't sweat it: Just enjoy!