The 37 Best Hotels in Peru

Perched on the Malecón clifftop above the Pacific, this Belmond all-suite hotel in Miraflores puts the ocean view in nearly every room. The rooftop pool makes the point more dramatically. Larcomar and some of Lima's most talked-about restaurants are a short walk, so the neighborhood does some of the heavy lifting. Forbes Four Star. Service runs attentive without being stiff, and the club lounge gives regulars somewhere to land.

Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Pacific from almost every room in this full-service hotel on the Miraflores cliff edge, which means you wake up to the kind of view that makes you briefly forget Lima is one of the world's great food cities. The lobby leans into polished marble and Peruvian artwork without overdoing either. Larcomar and the Malecón are steps away, which keeps the location from feeling purely about the hotel itself.

A former convent, the stonework still Inca underneath the colonial plaster, converted into an all-suite hotel a short walk from Plaza de Armas. The only outdoor heated pool in Cusco sits in a courtyard quiet enough to forget the altitude-dazed crowds outside. Oxygen-enriched suites are a practical luxury at elevation, and the spa leans on Andean ingredients rather than generic hotel-brand lotions. A Forbes Four Star property and one of the World's 50 Best Hotels.

A Belle Époque white mansion on a Barranco corner, the kind of building that makes you crane your neck from the taxi window. This boutique hotel holds antique candelabras, Italian marble, and rooms furnished like a glamorous traveler's fever dream, complete with claw-foot tubs and vintage suitcases. The rooftop deck pours pisco sours toward the Pacific, and the bar will remind you, unprompted, that pisco is Peruvian. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key.

Stone cloisters, hand-painted frescoes, and a 300-year-old cedar in the courtyard: Monasterio is a Belmond hotel built inside a colonial-era monastery a short walk from the Plaza de Armas. Rooms occupy the old monks' quarters, dressed in alpaca throws and marble, and some are oxygen-enriched for the altitude, which is a feature you don't find at most places. Opera occasionally echoes through the chapel. Forbes Four Star.

A 16th-century convent a short walk from the Plaza de Armas, converted into a JW Marriott with enough restraint that the bones of the building still do the talking. Incan and Spanish colonial artifacts uncovered during restoration sit in museum-style cases along the corridors. The subterranean spa pool and a courtyard bar are good reasons to come back after a morning at the Cathedral or the San Pedro Market.

Hand-painted Spanish tiles and brass chandeliers set the tone in the lobby, and the old-world formality never really lets up. This hotel in San Isidro runs to spacious rooms with high ceilings and dark wood, many with balconies overlooking a garden courtyard or the Lima Golf Club next door. The spa, gym, and palm-ringed plunge pool are there when the meetings end, and business travelers fill the conference wings reliably.

A nine-room boutique hotel in Miraflores built around the conceit of a globetrotting photographer who's lent you his Tudor-era mansion, his bicycle, his chauffeur, and his staff. The rooms are compact but handsomely turned out, breakfast is included, and 24-hour room service runs on local ingredients. Lima's best dining is a short walk away, which in this city is not a small promise. It holds a Michelin Key.

Each of the twenty casitas at this Belmond resort sits on its own acre in the Colca Valley, a canyon country that makes the Grand Canyon feel modest. It's a small-villa luxury experience in the high Andes, with plunge pools, soaking tubs, and underfloor heating keeping things comfortable after a day on horseback. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys. Getting here takes effort; Arequipa is a hundred miles away, which is rather the point.

The only hotel in the Sacred Valley with its own private railway station, which tells you something about the register. This luxury resort sits along the Urubamba River on the path toward Machu Picchu, with stone fireplaces, Inca-influenced wood pavilions, and windows sized to the mountains outside. An on-site garden supplies the kitchen, and guides are on hand to pull the whole landscape into focus.

Stone walls from 1540 enclose this 11-room luxury hotel in Peru's second city, which means your rain shower and flat-screen exist inside one of the earliest European-built structures in the New World. The rooms go spare and modernist against all that history, the kitchen serves contemporary takes on Arequipenean cooking in a glass-walled salon, and the staff will arrange canyon excursions if you can be persuaded to leave. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.

White bungalows with bright blue doors sit among bougainvillea and palm trees on the edge of Paracas Bay, where the water is spectacular to look at and entirely unswimmable. The resort works as a base for exploring the surrounding nature reserve by boat from its private dock, with kayaking, catamaran sailing, and sand biking rounding things out on land. The 120 rooms run minimalist, with bamboo walls, stone bathrooms, and terraces that face the gardens or the ocean.

The resort sits on an ancient Inca site that was only discovered mid-construction, which forced the architects to improvise and, by most accounts, produced something better than the original plan. Adobe and wood keep the minimalist rooms grounded while the Pumacahua Bath House spa and the restaurant pull in the opposite direction entirely. The Sacred Valley stretches out beyond it all, with Machu Picchu waiting at the far end. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key.

A rehabilitated Spanish colonial manor in the heart of old Cusco, La Casona holds just eleven suites, which means no one is elbowing past you in the lobby on the way to Machu Picchu. Heavy carved doors, stone fireplaces, and underfloor heating give it the feel of a very well-appointed private house. Spa treatments and private Andean guides are on offer, and if you have the budget and the friends, you can book the whole place. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.

Twenty-four casitas scattered across a hundred hillside acres in the Sacred Valley, with the Andes sitting right outside your private terrace. This is a luxury eco-resort grown around Incan landscape rather than imposed on it, and it holds two Michelin Keys. Oxen and hand tools work the farm that feeds the restaurant, heated floors warm the rooms at altitude, and the hikes from the property cover Inca Trail terrain without the traffic.

A private speedboat is how you arrive, cutting across the highest navigable lake on earth before the 18-suite boutique hotel comes into view on a grassy peninsula with nothing around it but water and sky. The Michelin Guide awarded Titilaka 2 Keys. Picture windows frame that deep blue expanse from every suite, and nearly every activity, kayaking, cocktail hour, trout dinners, pulls you back toward it.

Every room in this boutique hotel takes its cue from the Tapada Limeña, the veiled women of Lima's Viceroyalty era, interpreted by local artisans across botanical wallpapers and warm wood floors. It sits in San Isidro, the city's most composed neighborhood, with El Olivar's ancient olive grove just outside. The restaurant pairs Peruvian and Mediterranean cooking on a terrace, and cajón drumming classes are available if you feel ambitious. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

Five rooms in a 1920s Miraflores townhouse, one block from the coastal promenade. This boutique guesthouse keeps the original bedroom layout intact, which gives it the feel of borrowing a very stylish friend's home rather than checking into a hotel. The fridge runs on complimentary snacks, the honesty bar never closes, and staff will mix a pisco sour whenever you need one. Picked by the Michelin Guide, and an easy walk to the clifftop park.

The translucent facade glows from within like a lantern planted in Miraflores, which sets expectations correctly for what's inside: riotous color, bold Inca-inspired design motifs, and zero interest in restraint. This boutique hotel was Nhow's first foothold in the Americas, and it commits fully to its brand of maximalism. Rooms are generously sized even at entry level, a restaurant leans into Amazonian flavors, and the 13th-floor pool bar quietly becomes a club after dark.

A boutique hotel in Miraflores that quietly banned single-use plastics before it was fashionable, SOUMA runs 27 rooms with light wood and neutral linens, ocean or city views depending on your floor. Restaurante 27 Tapas works through contemporary Peruvian small plates downstairs, while the rooftop bar handles Pisco cocktails against Pacific sunsets. Larcomar and the clifftop Malecón are both a short walk away.

The stone façade's recessed windows cut shadow lines across the face of the building before you even walk in, which is exactly the kind of detail the Hyatt Centric sub-brand leads with. This is a design-forward hotel in San Isidro, Lima's business and dining hub, a few minutes from Miraflores. Rooms read comfortable for both a work trip and a weekend away. The rooftop bar, Celeste Solar, gives you a reason to stay in rather than wander out.

The checkerboard facade makes the building hard to miss from the street, which is sort of the point. This Accor hotel in the upscale Miraflores district runs 237 rooms, all decorated with geometric murals that lean Bauhaus, and even the entry-level rooms are a generous size. The rooftop pool looks out over the coast and the skyline, and a terrace bar there presumably does well at dusk. Business travelers are catered to, but the leisure side keeps pace.

A full-service business hotel in San Isidro, one block from Lima's financial district and a short walk from El Olivar Park and the Huaca Pucllana ruins. The 250 rooms lean contemporary and practical, with marble bathrooms and coworking space for the laptop-and-luggage crowd. Downstairs, Residente serves traditional Lima cooking with terrace tables overlooking the pool, which keeps it from feeling purely transactional. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

Perched on the Costa Verde cliffs in Miraflores, this boutique hotel looks straight out over the Pacific, which does most of the decorating. The 76 rooms lean into light wood and spa-style bathrooms, with local artwork keeping things grounded. Guests get access to the InterContinental next door's rooftop pool, a neighborly arrangement. Huaca Pucllana ruins and Barranco's galleries are close enough for a proper afternoon.

A 21-floor tower on the Miraflores malecón, with floor-to-ceiling windows that put either the Pacific or Lima's chaotic sprawl right in your room. The hotel runs four restaurants, from a rooftop Nikkei spot to stone-oven pizza with live music, plus what it calls Lima's largest outdoor pool. Business travelers fill the Club Floor; weekenders walk straight to the boardwalk. A solid, full-service base for either mission.

The lobby's vivid blue walls are a deliberate echo of a nearby baroque church, which tells you everything about how seriously this Luxury Collection hotel takes its surroundings. A five-century-old mansion turned hotel, it sits steps from the main plaza with cobblestone courtyards, stone arches, and carved wood alongside a hydrotherapy spa and rooms that don't ask you to rough it for the sake of authenticity.

The Urubamba River, sacred to the Incas, runs right past this Belmond resort in the Sacred Valley, which turns out not to be a branding decision. Nineteen rooms and suites are arranged to recall a traditional Andean village, their materials blending into the hillside rather than announcing themselves. The restaurant leans on an on-site garden, a small spa handles the unwinding, and most guests spend their days exploring the valley by foot, horseback, or water. It holds a Michelin Key.

Twelve acres of cloud forest wrap around this 85-room eco-lodge at the edge of Machu Picchu Pueblo, with wild orchids and high-altitude birds doing more for the ambiance than any decorator could. Rooms are done in Spanish Colonial style, with alpaca blankets and handmade local furnishings, and the whole operation runs carbon-neutral. A Michelin Key sits on the record. Getting here involves a train through the Andes, which is not a hardship.

Nine rooms, each with a private terrace and a wall of Andean peaks, sets the scale for this small boutique hotel tucked into the Sacred Valley between Pisac and Urubamba. Locally crafted decor and organic bath products keep things grounded in the region rather than generic luxury. The in-house restaurant leans on local ingredients, and Machu Picchu is close enough for a day trip without the hotel feeling like a staging post for one.

Clay-walled bungalows sit on 25 acres outside Urubamba, built with native stone and locally made brick, giant hummingbirds included at no extra charge. This small resort in the Sacred Valley sits on the road between Cusco and Machu Picchu, so the guest mix skews explorers in various states of pre- or post-trek recovery. The casitas come with wood-burning fireplaces and outdoor Jacuzzis, and the sheets are Peruvian pima cotton, which the hotel will absolutely tell you about.

The pool villas here lean toward the lavish end of the spectrum, and with only 22 rooms the whole resort stays quietly to itself on Peru's northern coast. Arennas Máncora sits on a private stretch of beach near Las Pocitas, with a poolside bar and a modernist look in pale stone and natural wood that feels more like coastal Thailand than South America. The restaurant leans into the local seafood, as it should.

The only way in is by canoe, which sets the tone pretty clearly. This eco-lodge deep in the Peruvian Amazon sits about a 25-minute flight from Cusco, then a scenic paddle from Puerto Maldonado, and the jungle is not a backdrop here but the whole point. Local guides run excursions from the door, the dining room leans on organic and farm-sourced ingredients, and the cabanas offer more privacy than the main lodge rooms.

Forty-five minutes upriver from the port, this eco-lodge sits deep in the Peruvian Amazon, accessible by boat and not much else. The thirty-five cabañas lean rustic-luxe, and the Canopy Tree House puts you ninety feet above the jungle floor, which either sounds thrilling or explains why there's a ground-level bedroom attached. The excursions along Madre de Dios and the trail systems are the real reason people make the trip; the comfort is a bonus.

Canvas tents with open-air soaking tubs, adobe cottages with clawfoot baths, and alpacas wandering past your terrace: Puqio brought safari-style tented camp lodging to Peru for the first time, and it landed in the Colca Valley, gateway to one of the planet's deepest canyons. Meals are cooked over open fires and served family-style in a wood-warmed lodge. Condors circle overhead often enough to feel possible, not promised.

The only luxury hotel inside the protected sanctuary, sitting yards from the citadel walls, which means you get Machu Picchu in the late afternoon once the tour groups have cleared out. Rooms are comfortable rather than grand, and some patios open straight onto the ruins. Two restaurants, one reserved for guests. Nights run cold year-round, and the rainy season stretches November through March, so pack accordingly and don't say you weren't warned.

The last town before Machu Picchu tends to lower your expectations considerably, which makes Sumaq a small shock. This 60-room hotel is dressed in Inca art and handsome objects, the rooms facing the river valley have views that compete with the ruins themselves, and a spa is on hand for the legs you've destroyed on the trail. The cocktail bar, for its part, takes a pisco sour seriously.