Notable Hotel Openings in Peru and Brazil
Last week we posted reviews of two luxury hotels that opened recently in Peru and Brazil.
The Peru opening’s name makes it sound same it should be in Colombia—Casa Cartegena—but it’s actually in Cusco, just a shuffle away from the reigning Monasterio and the upscale Inkaterra boutique hotel La Casona.
This inn dispenses with all the Spanish Colonial antiques and religious oil paintings though and presents something Cusco didn’t really hold before: a hotel with a sleek contemporary design aesthetic.
Our new Brazil addition is not a new hotel really, but a makeover. Orient-Express took over a hotel near Iguassu/Iguazu Falls a few years ago and therefore shut the place down to renovate it up to their standards. Hotel das Cataratas is still a work in progress, with the spa, some other public areas, and a third of the rooms left to finish, but it’s open for vocation and showing off its fresh new face.
Orient-Express operates lots of fine hotels and the Hiram Bingham train in Peru, plus the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio. We’re sure this new addition to their roster will get plenty of acclaim from guests and the press in the coming year, plus everyone who has been to both sides of the falls says the view is more dramatic on the Brazilian side.