Where to stay when you leave.
1/29/2008 at 1:05 PM
Tags: Budget Hotels, Easter Island, Chile Hotels, Monica Guy
This week our roaming correspondent, Monica Guy, is giving us the low-down on the Chilean Hotel Scene. Today, she tells you how to enjoy Easter Island on a budget. Enjoy.
You're all fired up to go to Easter Island and you're desperate to stay in the new luxury Explora Posada de Mike Rapu.
Unfortunately, your bank manager isn't quite so enthusiastic.
The Hotel O'tai is the only place worth staying if you can't afford the rates at the Explora. It's even got a couple of benefits. Unlike the Explora, it's based right in the center of the only town on the island, Hanga Roa. The town's not exactly a heaving metropolis and the nightlife wouldn't win prizes over London's, but it does mean you'll meet other travellers and get closer to the native inhabitants.
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1/28/2008 at 12:49 PM
Tags: Luxury Hotels, Easter Island, Chile Hotels, Explora Hotels, Monica Guy
This week our roaming correspondent, Monica Guy, is giving us the low-down on the Chilean Hotel Scene. Today, she has exclusive review of the much-vaunted, just-opened luxury Explora hotel of Posada de Mike Rapu on Easter Island. Enjoy.
Easter Island
Take one of the loneliest islands on earth, cover it in miles of unkempt grassland, teams of wild horses and hundreds of mysterious stone statues. Then drive a kilometer down a bumpy track off the island's single main road and you'll come across the most isolated, luxury, dreamland hotels you've ever read about.
We're talking about Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui by the natives, or as Isla de Pascua by the Chileans. It's 3,600 km from the nearest mainland in Chile and a 5h40min flight from Santiago. Famous for those great, stone Moai statues you'll have read about but probably not seen.
And we're talking about the Explora Posada de Mike Rapu, opened only since late 2007 and already one of the hottest topics of the Latin American hotel world.
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