The 19 Best Hotels in Peru

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.