We pick hotels that are guardians of each destination’s architecture as much as places to sleep — buildings with stories, run by people who know them, from the Andes to the Pacific. Tell us how you like to travel and we’ll match the room to the trip.
I choose hotels the way I’d choose them for my own family: for character first — the building, its story, the people who run it — and then for the comfort that lets you rest at altitude. Whatever your budget, every room on this list is one I’d be happy to sleep in.
[Name] — [Role]Where our love for South America began, and where we know every courtyard. From colonial mansions in Cusco to garden casitas in the Sacred Valley, these are the rooms we send our own friends to.
A 16th-century monastery built around a 300-year-old cedar, 122 rooms deep. Two restaurants, an 18th-century religious-art collection, and oxygen-enriched rooms that make acclimatizing painless. Grand in the truest sense.
43 private casitas across 15 hectares of gardens, each with Andean character and mountain views. A Relais & Châteaux property with a celebrated restaurant and equestrian center.
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From the silence of the Atacama to the winds of Patagonia, Chile’s best stays are built around the landscape — lodges that frame the view instead of competing with it.
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Colonial Quito, the mountain air of Cuenca and Baños, and the islands that changed how we see life itself. Small, characterful hotels close to everything worth waking up for.
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