The 19 Best Resorts in Chile

From the right angle, this UFO-shaped hotel reads as a crease in the earth, which is either modest architecture or very confident architecture, depending on how you look at it. It's a full-board luxury resort inside Torres del Paine National Park, holding a Michelin 3 Keys, with all meals, an open bar, guided excursions, and transfers folded into the rate. Forty rooms face Lago Sarmiento and the Paine Massif through floor-to-ceiling glass, and sheepskins are piled onto everything.

Twelve villas sit low against the Torres del Paine peaks, blond wood and geometric lines giving the whole thing a vaguely Nordic look, which is not quite the right word but gets you close. This seasonal resort pairs total comfort with zero fuss: wood-burning stoves, hot tubs, and a kitchen pulling from local land and sea. The real differentiator is a private guide and a 4x4, making every excursion yours alone. Michelin awarded it 3 Keys.

Eight private adobe cottages sit along the river in San Pedro de Atacama, furnished with custom-built rustic pieces rather than the usual design-catalog signifiers of luxury. The couple behind it are an architect and a decorator who clearly decided to prove something by going in the opposite direction. Meals, transfers, and excursions in a fleet of 4x4s are all folded into the rate, including nighttime stargazing with an astronomer. It holds 2 Michelin Keys.

The boxy modernist lodge sits yards from the Salto Chico waterfall, with the Paine massif looming behind every window, which makes the interior design feel like a polite suggestion. This luxury resort in Torres del Paine holds a Michelin 2 Keys distinction and keeps its fifty rooms deliberately cozy against the sheer scale outside. Rates cover meals, transfers, and daily expeditions, ranging from gentle walks to genuinely punishing hikes, because Patagonia, not the hotel, is the point.

Terracotta buildings the color of the surrounding Salt Mountains make this all-inclusive desert lodge nearly disappear into the Cordillera de Sal, which is the point. The Andean garden grows indigenous plants and the occasional wandering alpaca, the restaurant pulls from local organic produce, and the spa runs Turkish baths for when the canyon biking catches up with you. Stargazing from a private terrace is a given. A Michelin two-key property, with a three-night minimum.

The lodge rises on stilts above the Chiloé shoreline, its glass walls and industrial timber a deliberate echo of the region's traditional palafito houses. Solar-powered, quietly luxe, and furnished with hand-knitted wool slippers and hand-crafted pieces, it's a design-forward retreat on an island that tends to get overlooked in Chile's greatest-hits itinerary. The hotel runs its own boat for archipelago excursions, and the mussels you pass on the farms tend to reappear at dinner. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.

A cantilevered granite pool extending into the Colchagua Valley like a series of mountain lakes is the visual thesis of this 29-suite hilltop resort and spa. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame either vineyards rolling toward the Andes or snow-capped peaks, depending on your room. The art collection is serious, the asado is served al fresco with estate wine, and the Vik wine spa earns the trip out on its own. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

The Elqui Valley sits at the edge of the Atacama Desert, which means the skies above CasaMolle are about as dark as they get anywhere on the planet. This 12-room luxury boutique hotel earns a Michelin Key, and its grounds punch considerably above its size: three pools, six outdoor hot tubs, a full-service spa, and a nine-hole par 3 golf course. Rooms lean modern with local textures, and the all-inclusive restaurant pulls much of its produce from the hotel's own gardens.

Eight thousand feet above sea level, surrounded by salt flats and volcanic formations, this all-inclusive desert resort sits in one of the most remote corners of the planet. Architecture crouches low to the earth around stone patios and outdoor pools, with no televisions and no agenda beyond getting you outside. Hotel guides lead treks across salt flats, horseback rides over dunes, and climbs to the rim of a volcano. The bar exists mainly for exhausted hikers to compare notes. It holds a Michelin Key.

Getting here takes a five-hour flight from Santiago, and that's after you've already flown to Santiago. Explora's lodge on Easter Island, recognized with a Michelin Key, earns the trek with small-group guided tours that route around the crowds at the moai sites, covering the island on foot, by bike, and by sea. The architecture rounds and curves like something planted from another century, softened by raw concrete and unfinished wood. A three-night minimum is required.

Near Lake Ranco in northern Patagonia, Futangue is a luxury adventure resort where the spa saunas look out over rainforest and the bathroom products are made from plants growing just outside. Rooms lean into bare wood, leather, and fur without feeling like a hunting lodge cliché, and the restaurant pulls from the Valdivian region's larder. A Michelin Key holder, it earns its keep as a base for fly-fishing, kayaking, and horseback riding in country that feels genuinely far from everything.

Adobe walls, rough-hewn wood, and clean modernist lines hold their own against a volcano on the horizon. This 32-room all-inclusive boutique resort sits in the Atacama Desert, where the landscape reads as either breathtaking or hostile depending on your mood, and probably both. Rooms are spare but genuinely warm to the touch, and everything from airport transfers to guided volcano climbs is folded into the rate. Michelin awarded it one Key.

A waterfall pours down the side of this hotel. Not a metaphor: the building is shaped like a volcano, wrapped in living moss and ferns, with hobbit-hole windows and a manmade cascade for a facade. Rooms inside are warm with native wood and conspicuously free of televisions, because Chilean Patagonia is doing the entertaining. A private nature reserve surrounds it, with glacial lakes and old-growth forest right outside. Pisco sours by the spa pool handle the evenings.

Forest catwalks connect a dozen treehouse-style bungalows here, deep in a private Patagonian nature reserve where the nearest road is a long drive, and most guests arrive by helicopter or boat. The suites run to fireplaces, soaking tubs, and parquet floors, while outside there's a heated pool, a spa, and a restaurant with woods views on every side. The lodge's name means "Spirit of the Puma" in the local indigenous language, so keep your eyes open.

The rooms here are shaped like mushrooms, which is either the first thing or the last thing you want to hear about a hotel. Set inside a vast private Patagonian rainforest reserve, the lodge leans into its fungal architecture with woody interiors and camp blankets that tip toward treehouse rather than roughing it. A covered walkway connects to a sister hotel with pools, sauna, and a hot tub for whenever the forest starts feeling too sincere.

Sitting on a working farm and cheese dairy at the foot of a snow-capped volcano, this all-inclusive five-star lodge outside Pucón earns its keep before you've unpacked. The farm's own butter and cheese go straight to the kitchen, never to market. Suites have private fireplaces, terraces with hot tubs, and floor-to-ceiling windows looking onto the river. Daily excursions, from fly-fishing to horseback riding, are folded into the rate, so the only decision is which volcano to stare at over the Carmenere.

Grass roofs, volcanic stone, and handmade clay soaking tubs: this luxury resort on Easter Island is built to look like it grew here rather than arrived. Low-slung buildings cluster like a village, and private terraces face the ocean. The island's largest pool is a geometric statement. Staff arrange moai and archaeological site visits, but the harbor is a short walk, and coming back here after a long day on Rapa Nui is a reasonable argument for the whole trip.

The Atacama is the driest desert on earth, which makes choosing to build a 51-room hotel here either a provocation or a statement of faith in good air conditioning. Habitas leans into the setting rather than fighting it, with rooms built in traditional regional construction methods, plenty of outdoor lounge space, a small spa, and skies so clear that stargazing counts as an activity. The wood-fired restaurant, Almas, works local Atacaman produce.

The roof is the hillside, grass and all, re-laid over low-slung wood-and-slate buildings designed by Chilean green architect Germán del Sol to disappear into the Patagonian landscape rather than announce themselves. Inside, the eco-lodge gives way to something considerably softer: unfinished wood, organic curves, a sauna, an infinity pool, and a restaurant pulling from local farms and the cold channels nearby. The views are better earned on foot, and guided excursions of every intensity are on offer.