Advantages: Lovely hotel in excellent position Disadvantages: rooms a little dark
This is a large busy hotel just five minutes walk from the main square and next to the Inca Temple of the Sun . It is a traditional 16th century Pizzarro Palace with Spanish colonial additions beautifully decorated in Spanish/Peruvian style.
The lobby is large and airy with many areas for sitting comfortably in groups to share a cup of the complimentary coca tea which is on tap 24 hours a day. The coca tea was essential to avoid altitude sickness and I found I needed several of the little cups in the day and when I woke in the morning if I didn't have a cup fairly quickly I did feel a little wobbly and shaky particularly the first morning after our arrival. There was also oxygen available if you needed it but I wasn't that bad and I found the tea, lots of water and fresh air helped me.
We didn't eat meals other than breakfast in ...
Advantages: Clean and adequate Disadvantages: Forgettable, in a business district, frequent power cuts
were more approachable, relaxed and friendly, reflecting the gregarious nature of this wonderful country.
So would I recommend the PosadadelInca San Isidro? For a traveller heading to San Isidro on business it would be a reasonable choice. For a tourist, I would recommend finding somewhere in Miraflores, where excellent shopping, world class restaurants, sea views and a recreational atmosphere could surround you.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Hotel PosadadelInca San Isidro
Av. Libertadores 490,
Lima
Tel: (51-1) 222-4373
Fax: (51-1) 222-4370
For some reason this hotel is not listed on the group website: http://www.sonesta.com/perulima/
Beware, there is another SonestaPosadadelInca (El Olivar) located a couple of streets away, which is more luxurious and seems to be the member hotel the chain actively push in ...
or with an over-night stay to allow getting to the site early in the morning, or a helicopter flight in a matter of hours. Looking back at it, we must have been mad, and I was certainly deluded about my own level of fitness, and had apparently completely forgotten that I am scared of heights.
In order to walk the Inca Trail, you need to start from the city of Cusco. We booked flights from London to Lima with the Venezuelan Viassa Airline (the cheapest option at the time) There appeared to be a problem with the plane on take-off and we were surprised to find ourselves being ushered off the plane in Paris, where we sat for hours watching fluid gush out of the plane while "engineers" wandered around the plane scratching their heads. We then all got back on the plane for the onward journey. We landed in Caracas about a day after setting out on our ...
