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PeRU is gaga over luxury continued from page 44 “The new Hotel Paracas is a winner. The rooms, the views, the restaurants are all fantastically done— really, really lovely.” Pam Walker, Owner, Walker Adventures is a great place for couples wanting a romantic getaway, although the kids’ club with its own pool works separately and well.” Paracas, once home to the master weavers of the pre-Columbian Paracas culture and today a neighbor of a bird-filled national nature reserve, is a 3-hour drive south of Lima, and this sophisticated Luxury Collection member is airy and beachy, modern in a seaside resort manner. Guestrooms, priced from $365 for a superior room and suites from $435, include such amenities as a 37-inch flat-screen TV, iPod docking station, and private balcony; private butler services are included for guests booking suites. Guests have access to the 5,000-sq.-ft. Spa at Paracas, an extraordinary infinity pool, and two restaurants, as well as a host of excursions including the wildlife-packed Ballestas Islands aboard the hotel’s yacht and a private-plane flight over the “drawings” that decorate the nearby Nazca plain. A 12-passenger plane is also part of the Luxury Collection brand portfolio, offering guests private transfers between all Libertador hotel locations: Cusco, Puno, Arequipa, Lima, Trujillo and Paracas. The 128-room Libertador Tambo del Inka opened in the Sacred Valley outside Cusco last April as the second Peruvian member of Starwood’s Luxury Collection. Sitting tranquilly on the Urubamba River in the shadow of the Andes, the hotel has the looks and feel of a grand modern stone lodge, handsomely furnished with those colorful and rustic fabrics and ceramics that the Valley is famous for. The 128 large rooms and suites all have floor-to-ceiling windows opening to grand natural vistas, as well as amenities such as 400-thread count linens, 32-inch LCD TV, and complimentary WiFi and high-speed Internet connectivity. The hotel’s Hawa restaurant wows its diners with perfectly executed Novo Andina cuisine. Tambo del Inka offers a luxury base for the active traveler, arranging on request mountain biking, kayaking, hiking to the Inca ruins and community villages, white-water rafting, horseback riding, and escorted excursions to Machu Picchu. For more leisurely guest activities, the 5,905-sq.-ft. spa features 12 treatment rooms with panoramic views of the Andes. Treatments here use ancestral Inca ingredients, from coca leaves and volcanic mud to quinoa grains and fresh fruit. Tambo del Inka rates start at $455 dbl, suites at $545. In June 2011, the Palacio del Inka, Libertador’s third Luxury Collection hotel, will debut in Cusco. Like the more established Libertador group, relative newcomer Casa Andina did not start its hospitality life at the five-star deluxe level. Rath46 february 2011 er, the company placed hotels in less-traveled areas (with the exception of Cusco, which now hosts five of the company’s 18 Peruvian properties), introducing smart, well-run, and similarly decorated hotels that were imaginative in design, well suited to their environments and wellpriced. Its up-market brand, Private Collection, is a welcome addition to the hotel scene. The new luxury flagship hotel in Lima, the 148-room Casa Andina Private Collection Miraflores, is the chain’s swankiest urban hotel yet; colonial Casa Andina Private Collection Arequipa, meanwhile, occupies a National Monument building, the former House of the Mint, and the Casa Andina Private Collection Puno has style and excellent service to go along with its stupendous views of Lake Titicaca. The Casa Andina Private Collection Cusco, inhabiting an 18th century mansion and built around three interior patios, was the company’s first upscale hotel in the Inca-land capital, and most recently in the Sacred Valley—exploding with upscale accommodations—the Casa Andina Private Collection Valle Sagrado turns out to be one of the best. It resembles a large mountain-chalet style hotel with a lovely setting, great mountain views, and glorious gardens. Among its most special features are the full-service Sacred Spa offering natural treatments and a domed planetarium and observatory from which to scan the vast South Hemisphere skies. Respectively, room prices start at $207 and $185. Inkaterra is another and major Peru hotel success story. The conservation-minded company’s lodging interests now span from the 34cabana Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica on the banks of the Madre de Dios River and newly offering its guests a Canopy Tree House, to its award-winning, 85-room Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, which yearly runs away with all international awards (Conde Nast Traveler, the most recent) for its property located at the base of Machu Picchu mountain. Among other features, the Pueblo Hotel is known for its orchid gardens (400 species) and its UNU Spa’s Inca Purification treatment, using the stimulating effects of coca leaves—in creams, oils and masks. Plunge pools were recently added. The newest in luxury to join the Inkaterra hotel family is La Casona, Peru’s first member of the Relais & Chateaux group. Located on Cusco’s historic Plaza de las Nazarenas, the 11-suite La Casona occupies a 16th century mansion once owned by a Spanish conquistador. Its 11 suites have views of the plaza and the lovely interior courtyard, and have open fireplaces, down duvets on the beds, heated floor, grand recommend.com http://www.recommend.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Recommend February 2011

Editor's Notes/Agent Speak
Hotel Desk
Tour Talk
Crystal Cruises' Serenity
Flights of Fancy With One&Only Cape Town
South African Airways
South Africa Set to Score Big in 2011
Fantastical Fiji
Luxury Lands in Puerto Rico
Grenada
Barbados: High-End, Low-Key
Bermuda Scales Back
Peru is Gaga Over Luxury
Starry Arizona
Acqualina Resort & Spa, Florida
Baden-Baden, Germany
New Choices in Luxury Tweak Mexico's Landscape
Invigorating Girl Escapes

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Recommend February 2011 - Editor's Notes/Agent Speak (Page 8)
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Recommend February 2011 - Hotel Desk (Page 10)
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Recommend February 2011 - Tour Talk (Page 12)
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Recommend February 2011 - Crystal Cruises' Serenity (Page 14)
Recommend February 2011 - Crystal Cruises' Serenity (Page 15)
Recommend February 2011 - Crystal Cruises' Serenity (Page 16)
Recommend February 2011 - Crystal Cruises' Serenity (Page 17)
Recommend February 2011 - Flights of Fancy With One&Only Cape Town (Page 18)
Recommend February 2011 - Flights of Fancy With One&Only Cape Town (Page 19)
Recommend February 2011 - Flights of Fancy With One&Only Cape Town (Page 20)
Recommend February 2011 - South African Airways (Page 21)
Recommend February 2011 - South Africa Set to Score Big in 2011 (Page 22)
Recommend February 2011 - South Africa Set to Score Big in 2011 (Page 23)
Recommend February 2011 - South Africa Set to Score Big in 2011 (Page 24)
Recommend February 2011 - South Africa Set to Score Big in 2011 (Page 25)
Recommend February 2011 - Fantastical Fiji (Page 26)
Recommend February 2011 - Fantastical Fiji (Page 27)
Recommend February 2011 - Fantastical Fiji (Page 28)
Recommend February 2011 - Fantastical Fiji (Page 29)
Recommend February 2011 - Luxury Lands in Puerto Rico (Page 30)
Recommend February 2011 - Luxury Lands in Puerto Rico (Page 31)
Recommend February 2011 - Luxury Lands in Puerto Rico (Page 32)
Recommend February 2011 - Luxury Lands in Puerto Rico (Page 33)
Recommend February 2011 - Grenada (Page 34)
Recommend February 2011 - Grenada (Page 35)
Recommend February 2011 - Grenada (Page 36)
Recommend February 2011 - Grenada (Page 37)
Recommend February 2011 - Barbados: High-End, Low-Key (Page 38)
Recommend February 2011 - Barbados: High-End, Low-Key (Page 39)
Recommend February 2011 - Barbados: High-End, Low-Key (Page 40)
Recommend February 2011 - Barbados: High-End, Low-Key (Page 41)
Recommend February 2011 - Bermuda Scales Back (Page 42)
Recommend February 2011 - Bermuda Scales Back (Page 43)
Recommend February 2011 - Peru is Gaga Over Luxury (Page 44)
Recommend February 2011 - Peru is Gaga Over Luxury (Page 45)
Recommend February 2011 - Peru is Gaga Over Luxury (Page 46)
Recommend February 2011 - Peru is Gaga Over Luxury (Page 47)
Recommend February 2011 - Starry Arizona (Page 48)
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Recommend February 2011 - Acqualina Resort & Spa, Florida (Page 52)
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Recommend February 2011 - Baden-Baden, Germany (Page 54)
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Recommend February 2011 - New Choices in Luxury Tweak Mexico's Landscape (Page 58)
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Recommend February 2011 - New Choices in Luxury Tweak Mexico's Landscape (Page 60)
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Recommend February 2011 - New Choices in Luxury Tweak Mexico's Landscape (Page 62)
Recommend February 2011 - New Choices in Luxury Tweak Mexico's Landscape (Page 63)
Recommend February 2011 - Invigorating Girl Escapes (Page 64)
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