Casa Andina Private Collection Cusco
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Plazoleta de Limacpampa Chico 473 Cusco, Peru, 84, 51-84-23-2610
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Got up this morning and had a wonderful breakfast at Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, then walked to meet our naturalist guide for the morning. We were the only two people allowed to see the spectacled bear habitat at the hotel, thanks to Cesar at the hotel. Apparently the bears become quite stressed around people and they're not allowed to see too many people each week. We started out on our walk along the river banks, past the small tea plantation and herb gardens for the hotel and passed through...
Cusco, Peru benbethel
Drive from Sacred Valley to Cusco with several stops along the way!
The Descanso Bar is not far from our hotel, Casa Andina Private Collection Sacred Valley in Yanahuara. It's only 9:30 AM, but Jaime wants to introduce us to a game that both he and Julio play and also to the local drink, Chicha. The game is called Sapo or toad game that originated in Inca times. It consists of a piece of furniture with many holes in the top surface with a frog with its mouth open, where players attempt to...
Today was a mesmerizing day of viewing Inca stonework. At Qorikancha, we saw one stone with 18 angles or corners. I couldn't figure out how to get it into a photo, so you’ll have to trust me on this. Supposedly in Inca times the Temple was covered in gold. It must have been a wonder of power and wealth. At Saqsaywaman (you could pronounce this as sexy woman), the size of the boulders and precision of the construction is awe-inspiring. It really is hard to take it all in and fathom how m...
Cusco, Peru journeyer
We meet Andrea at Mountain Lodges of Peru (MLP) today, walking over to the MLP office. Of course we walk right by the office building and get a little lost. We ended up going into two hotels for directions. I personally wanted to thank her for her prompt responses and assistance in the trip planning. We learned the reason why her written English is so good. She is from Vermont. We got some insight into living here in Peru. And as I was not feeling particularly well, we got some suggestions ab...
Cusco, Peru journeyer
We had a 6:00 AM wake-up call, luggage out at 6:45 AM, scheduled to check-out of El Pardo Hotel at 7:00 AM. Julio had suggested that we have a light breakfast of bread, jam and tea in preparation for our flight to the higher altitude in Cusco (around 3,300 m 10,800 ft). Julio took us to the airport and made all the arrangements for our 1 hour flight at 9:50 AM. We were served a box snack of crackers, pound cake and a chocolate stick. I decided that this was the best in-flight meal I had remem...
Cusco, Peru kathymlm
One of the cardinal rules of international travel besides not drinking the local water is to not eat any fruit that can't be peeled. Our wonderful hotel in Puno tempted me with a delightful platter of pretty fresh fruit. I couldn't resist some red grapes, juicy pear, and yummy peach. It got me back: I paid for it all night long with severe bloating and gas. Our travel plans today are to fly to Cuzco, Peru, the base camp for Machu Picchu. We had to drive 30 miles by taxi to the nearest airport...
Cuzco, Peru leifswanson
An early start for a flight to Cusco and a 1 hour taxi to the Sacred Valley for the second stage in our acclimatization to altitude. So far so good. We have been drinking lots of Coca tea ( the local preventative for altitude sickness); this is made from leaves of the Coca plant more commonly known as the source of cocaine. The locals have used it for centuries; either chewing the leaves or making tea from them. In a local museum there are small statues that had been buried with Inca mummies ...
Machu Picchu, Peru lizdavidHistorical Traveler Reviews of Casa Andina Private Collection Cusco
Servizio impeccabile
Excellent service
Awesome Service
Would definately stay here again.
Loved the Casa Andina Private Collection
Very nice hotel
The Best!
I booked via Casa Andinas main web site and got a great discount!
Johanna
Il migliore!
Absolutely Fantastic
The hotel features a cosy lounge with open fire place and 2 computers with free internet. It has a great court yard where the check in is done while we were enjoying a cup of coco tea. The rooms had all the facilities we can wish for, with extensive amenities and spacious bathrooms. I would like to specially mention the courtesy of the staff & management. We will be back in May with our next Tour Group which I also will be personally escorting. [-]
Calidad por los cuatro costados
El hotel se encuentra bien ubicado, a una distancia de 10 minutos a pie de la Plaza de Armas. Es un edificio historico totalmente renovado con dos grandes patios. El personal del hotel es agradabilísimo y muy efecaz. Una vez llegó el grupo mientras los maleteros distribuían las maletas se nos pasó a un lobby con su chimena encendida invitandonos a una copa. La decoración es soberbia, el comedor tiene unas pinturas de gran tamaño de estilo cuzqueño (con sus Ángeles Arcabuceros) que junto con un mobiliario muy bien cuidado y una cocina exquisita harán que no olvides ninguna de las cenas que haya disfrutes. El desayuno-buffet tambien se toma en el mismo lugar y es completísimo.
Durante el día en uno de los patios del hotel suelen trabajar artesanos locales, lo que le da un encanto especial a la hora de tomarse una copa a mediodía.
Las habitaciones
Solo le pongo una pega a este maravilloso hotel, al encontrarse las habitaciones en torno a los patios (tipo conventual) la ventana da al pasillo de dichos patios (no al exterior) lo que te obliga a echar la cortina si quieres tener cierta intimidad pero pierdes la luz solar. por lo demás están muy bien decoradas y equipadas.
Not ready for the public...
First of all, let me say that Cusco is an amazing city - if you go, be sure to visit the ruins of both Pisac and Macchu Picchu. Cusco is also a very magical colonial city with narrow streets and great architecture.
On to my experience with the hotel. Upon my first stay, we were greeted, checked in with a nice ritual of coca tea, then whisked away to our rooms. The hotel was still being worked on, many rooms did not have doors on them and furniture was strewn about the place. Our first room must have just opened, but it smelled awful, like wet paint and wet drywall mud. I'm usually not too picky about such things, but we asked to be moved and upon our return from touring the city and Pisac, our bags had made it to a new second floor room, which still smelled like paint and wet drywall, but not as bad as the first one, so we sucked it up and spent the night. No apologies were made or discounts offered.
On our second stay, just three days later after a visit to Machu Picchu Pueblo (absolutely fantastic), we were put into a second story room that still smelled like paint and wet drywall, but I think we'd become used to it... and I'd just spent $45 on prescription allergy medication at a local pharmacy to be able to withstand the smell.
Well, this stay was the icing on the cake: our heat didn't work. At all. Remember Cusco is at 11,000 feet... so it gets cold at night. Then I decided to take a shower and the water started lukewarm and went to cold. After contacting the front desk, we were offered a miniature portable heater that did absolutely nothing to heat the room and were told they would work on the water situation. In the morning, I tried taking a shower again, and it was ice cold. Nothing is more miserable than sleeping in an ice cold room then taking an ice cold shower. Nothing.
Upon check-out we let them know about our experience and they were going to offer a 30% discount. Great I thought! But, our rate was already discounted 25% when we booked the room, so I think when the front desk agent changed it to 30% in the discount field on their computer, she was really only giving us a 5% discount off of our rate... that wouldn't cut it. So, she changed the rate to 50% off - again, this wasn't really 50% off our rate but just a change of our rate discount. I hope that makes sense, but it just never became a 50% discount off of what we expected to pay. The GM came up to us and was more confrontational and helpful. I said to him in spanish "there are three important things in a hotel, the rest are just amenities: a good bed, a hot shower, and the ability to have comfortable air temperatures - we couldn't have two of those three things".
We ran out of time and had to get to the airport, so we just left it at that and ended up paying a rate that was about 30% off of our initial rate.
This hotel needs to wait a few more months before opening. I would not stay there for another six months or so, until they iron out the wrinkles and get their act together. The location is great, the public areas are beautiful, the restaurant is good (although it's really bright at night!), but the rooms are a tiny 10 feet wide and don't have much more charm than a holiday inn.
My opinion of this hotel would have changed quite a bit if our problems had been dealt with in a better manner!
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