Intercontinental Santiago

... Tasted the local drink, pisco, (grape brandy). Then back for an early night. Leave hotel for Lima at 5.30 tomorrow morning. Santiago a bit of a culture shock. Long queues in a very hot, crowded airport where everyone is speaking Spanish, now off for Lima ...

... Miami and the flight last 15 hours!! To make matters worse they all seemed to cost a fortune - apparently because they are not intercontinental or part of a flight package. Finally, we found that Copa do one which has a brief 45 minut stop off in Panama ...

... sleep, arrive. Had a driver waiting for me upon arrival (nice touch U. Catolica) and drove straight to hotel to check in...Intercontinental Santiago www.interconti.com/santiago. Spoke to my host at La Catolica, Jorge Sullivan and we agreed to meet that ...

... blessed with lots of ground water. We arrived at our hotel about 3PM and were able to go right to our rooms at the intercontinental. We had pizza that night at an open air restaurant with little motorized traffic. The pizza was good and the walk back to ...

... smoothly and I walked back to the hostel with a new press card hanging round my neck. The beauty contest was held at the Intercontinental hotel so press card round neck and camera in hand (well...I had to look like I was a photographer...even with a ...

... 3 months ago. It goes smoothly. I forgot how nice planes are compared to the overnight bus rides. I arrive at the Hotel Intercontinental around midnight. I am supposed to be on a cruise, departing Dec 31 for two weeks. BA to Santiago. Rob and ...

A bit of a rush but it's all coming together. After the minga I got the bus up to Temuco arriving at 3am. I stayed in the Hotel Continental where Pablo Neruda used to hang out whilst in town. It has seen better days but they still know how to run a ...