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Libertador's Westin Lima Has Opened (Gasp) a Month Early

jsb — 2011-06-13T09:01:31-05:00

Presidential Suite

It so rarely happens but yes, a hotel has opened--no, not on time, but early. (We know, take a minute to compose yourself.) OK, so we had it listed as May 1 on our master list, but the Westin Lima wasn't really going to open until June and then, voila!, its doors opened, as if by magic, on May 16.

Not only is the property--the third under the Libertardor partnership with Starwood--ahead of the game, it's also quite dashing looking, as you can see from these photos.

When Can We Hit The Quinoa Trail at Tambo del Inka?

MsRebecca — 2010-09-17T13:34:50-05:00

<![CDATA[ Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving company's dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway; at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/TamboDelInka.jpg" class="top"> Call us crazy but this edition of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Cubicle%20Dreamin%27">Cubicle Dreamin'</a> actually involves health. All summer long, you see, we've been eating out, partying hard and

Cusco's Fallen Angel has a Peekaboo Diorama Bathroom

EricRosen — 2010-09-07T15:34:45-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/18481/Fallen_Angel_bathroom.JPG" class="top">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">Casa Cartagena</a> in <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/city/Cusco">Cusco</a> last month, we popped over to the nearby Plazoleta Nazarenas to scope out <a href="http://fallenangelincusco.com">Fallen Angel</a>, a restaurant-lounge-guest house frequented by the citys glitterati. 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 Angel and Devil rather than by sex so that patrons can self-segregate depending on their mood that evening. But the restaurant bathrooms have nothing on one of the restrooms we spotted upstairs in one of the four new, equally quirky guest

High Altitude Means High End at Cuscos New Casa Cartagena

EricRosen — 2010-07-12T12:16:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<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> When we told friends that we were going to <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/city/Cusco">Cusco</a> last week, every single one of them, without exception, asked us if we were staying at the citys most famous and historic property, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Orient-Express%20Hotels">Orient-Express</a> <a href="http://www.monasteriohotel.com/web/ocus/hotel_monasterio.jsp">Hotel Monasterio</a>. We werent. Instead, we got a sneak peek at the citys newest boutique luxury property, the 16-suite <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Casa+Cartagena/local/1822">Casa Cartagena</a>, which, as it turns out, is right next door to the Monasterio, but feels a world away.

Starwood Adds Peruvian Hotels to Its Luxury Collection

MsRebecca — 2010-06-29T13:45:59-05:00

When you think Machu Picchu, you probably don't think luxury—but Starwood is hoping to change that, with the addition of a new hotel to its Luxury Collection. The newly opened Tambo del Inka is just 50 minutes from Cusco, making it a great base from which to explore the Sacred Valley. (Dude, there's a spa. Perhaps now we may finally get into this thing called "hiking.")