HotelChatter - Cusco http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T06:29:00Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Cusco's Fallen Angel has a Peekaboo Diorama Bathroom http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/8/30/1450/83432 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/18481/Fallen_Angel_bathroom.JPG" class="top"><p>While we were staying at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/7/12/22343/8620/hotels/High_Altitude_Means_High_End_at_Cusco_s_New_Casa_Cartagena"><b>Casa Cartagena</b></a> in <b><a href="http://www.jaunted.com/city/Cusco">Cusco</a></b> last month, we popped over to the nearby Plazoleta Nazarenas to scope out <b><a href="http://fallenangelincusco.com">Fallen Angel</a></b>, a restaurant-lounge-guest house frequented by the city&#146;s glitterati.<p> There, we fell under the spell of fancy finger foods and odd furnishings like a 10-foot sparkly angel sculpture, tables that are made from bathtubs converted into fish tanks with glass tabletops on them, and bathrooms that are categorized by &#147;Angel&#148; and &#147;Devil&#148; rather than by sex so that patrons can self-segregate depending on their mood that evening. <p> But the restaurant bathrooms have nothing on one of the restrooms we spotted upstairs in one of the four new, equally quirky guest EricRosen 2010-09-07T15:34:45-05:00 High Altitude Means High End at Cusco&#146;s New Casa Cartagena http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/7/12/22343/8620 <![CDATA[<p><object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/4862856001?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="@videoPlayer=111545222001&playerID=4862856001&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/4862856001?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="@videoPlayer=111545222001&playerID=4862856001&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><p> When we told friends that we were going to <b><a href="http://www.jaunted.com/city/Cusco">Cusco</a></b> last week, every single one of them, without exception, asked us if we were staying at the city&#146;s most famous and historic property, <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Orient-Express%20Hotels">Orient-Express</a></b> <a href="http://www.monasteriohotel.com/web/ocus/hotel_monasterio.jsp">Hotel Monasterio</a>. We weren&#146;t. <p> Instead, we got a sneak peek at the city&#146;s newest boutique luxury property, the 16-suite <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Casa+Cartagena/local/1822">Casa Cartagena</a></b>, which, as it turns out, is right next door to the Monasterio, but feels a world away.<br> EricRosen 2010-07-12T12:16:06-05:00 Scrap the Backpacker Trail: Take A Boutique Entrance to Machu Picchu http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/18/74042/9347 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Inkaterra_Cusco_Peru.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Yes, we subscribe to the standard world traveler's dream of wanting to visit Machu Picchu one day. But we will be sure to spend some time in the gateway town of Cusco on our way there because the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/La+Casona+Inkaterra/ian/265492"><b>La Casona Inkaterra Cusco</b></a> looks like a damn nice place to stay.<p>Opening almost a year ago, it claims to be the first boutique hotel to hit Cusco and has just eleven suites arranged around a central courtyard. But although it's a historical building that some think was the first Spanish-built structure in Cusco, it's got all the modern touches too with heated floors and iPods. We see no shame in mixing nifty old stuff with the comforts of amandak 2008-08-18T11:26:51-05:00 Boutique Hotels Are Even Springing Up Near Machu Picchu http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/2/71914/29608

If you want to trek to Machu Picchu, but sleep beforehand with a bit of style, take note of the new La Casona Inkaterra, opening this month. It's Cusco's first boutique hotel (with just 11 rooms), a renovation of a colonial manor house. Each suite overlooks either the hotel's courtyard (Patio Suites) or has views over the town of Cusco (Plaza Suites).

]]> amandak 2008-05-02T09:14:04-05:00 Amazing Race 7 Hotel Report: When In Incaville... http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/3/2/135837/9524 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/la_merced.jpg"></p> <p>The Amazing Race 7 kicked off last night, so we are back to talk about hotels featured in each and every episode. What do we do when a hotel isn't featured in an episode? We guess where we think the cast and crew might be staying. No hotels were featured during last nights premiere, so let the guess work begin!</p> <p>When you are starting a long, grueling, intensely competitive round the world journey you need to stay in style your first night away from home. With that philosophy in mind, if we were in charge of Amazing Race accommodations for CBS we would hook up our crew at the <a href="http://www.monasterio.orient-express.com">Hotel Monasterio Cusco</a> high in the mountains markj 2005-03-02T14:03:15-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/