Villa Barranco
Classic romance
Lima's Pacific coast
Painted the near robin’s-egg blue of a Tiffany’s box, Villa Barranco is a stay you’ll be just as eager to get inside – a restored 1920s republican house that’s been painstakingly polished, buffed and embellished into a charming boutique hotel for the now. Local craftspeople were called upon to repair a mosaic frieze, stuccoes, graceful balconies and French terracotta roof tiles; while within – wanting to keep the villa from looking like a time capsule – designers spent a year and a half sourcing sleek contemporary pieces, Limeño crafts and just the right amount of eye-catching antiques and artwork. Now, taking on all the bohemian romance and street-art-splattered cool of its same-name neighbourhood, it’s a proposal you’ll undoubtedly say ‘yes’ to.
Facilities
Номера
18, including 12 suites.
Checkout
Noon, and check-in is at 2pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.
Больше сведений
Rates include a delicious homemade breakfast of Peruvian fruit, cakes and breads, eggs any-way, waffles, crêpes made to order.
Also
While rooms aren’t adapted, Junior Suite five has a street-level entrance and a roll-in shower.
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Прачечная
Возможно размещение с животными
Рестораны на территории
Обслуживание в номерах
At the Hotel
Rooftop bar and terrace, garden, interior courtyard, lounge and library, free WiFi, free-to-borrow e-bikes and helmets, charged laundry service, free WiFi. In rooms: Glass bottles with filtered water (refilled on request), air-conditioning, organic bath products.
Our Favourite Rooms
Each has something unique to offer, plus furnishings and antiques of different eras that took the designer a year and a half to track down. Most have outdoor space too – three rooms on the ground level each have a slice of garden (with seating for happy hour), and interconnect for families and groups. But, we rather like Junior Suite 7, set upstairs from the courtyard and with a tucked-away terrace all to itself. And, the Master Suite is the star act – with a separate loft through which you access a terrace with a Pacific view, and a huge bathroom where a freestanding tub sits under a skylight and there’s a small dressing area too.
Spa
There's no spa, but with 24-hours notice staff will be happy to call in a local massage therapist for soothing in-room treatments.
Packing Tips
‘Look, don’t tag’ applies in this street-art haven, where it’s a local privilege to scribble on the walls – leave the spray paints at home, but pack a sketchbook to capture the vibrant full-wall works.
Also
With 24 hours’ notice, a masseur can be called in for a treatment in your room.
Дети
The villa’s cosy, homey feel means families will feel welcome, but there’s not much to distract smalls onsite. Children up to the age of six can share their parents' bed for free, otherwise the full rate will apply.
Галерея
Food & Drink
Top Table
The garden terrace with its striped parasols, elegant white railings and flower-speckled greenery seems to hark back to Barranco’s former life as a resort. If you have your own terrace, even better.
Дресс-код
Graffiti-scrawl brights.
Hotel Restaurant
Lima has some of the best dining in the world – within six blocks there are several restaurants that have sat comfortably among the top 10 of the World’s 50th Best Restaurants for years. So, guests tend to arrive with bookings firmly in place and the hotel feels little need to compete with near culinary perfection. Having said that – their breakfast spread is impressive, served in a dining room that feels just like home (with a little library in the corner, Peruvian artworks, trinkets lining shelves) or on a terrace that overlooks the garden’s flowering bushes. All ingredients are local, most from the Mercado de Surquillo, and guests will find a table filled with fruit, breads and cakes laid out with juices and hot drinks – and hot dishes (crêpes, waffles and eggs) are made to order.
Hotel Bar
Tucked away in the villa’s muddle of terraces and towers is a small rooftop bar with some cushioned banquettes and a couple of stools at the counter. It’s practically illegal to not serve Pisco here, so it’s prominent on the drinks trolley, but in keeping with the promotion of Peruvian-only products, everything on the cart is sourced in the country, including some spirits you might not realise were made here: rum, whiskey, gin… And some very drinkable wines too.
Last Orders
Breakfast is from 6.30am to 11am. The bar is open from 11am till 11pm.
Room Service
Breakfast, drinks and light snacks can be brought to your door from 7am to 10pm.
Planes
The closest airport to the hotel is Jorge Chavez International, a 40-minute drive away. There are direct routes across North and South America and some stretching over to Europe. Private transfers can be arranged from PEN90 (around US$25).
Automobiles
Do you know how to play the horn? You may well after driving in Lima – it’s the language of cars in the city, whether you’re warning a pedestrian that you’re coming or alerting someone to the light turning green. If you must drive, go confidently and match the energy of your fellow roadsters; and there’s a free car park about 50 metres from the hotel. But, for a greener and serene-r way of getting about, download the Moovit app to navigate bus routes.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
Barranco is one of Lima’s most colourful and romantic districts and was once separate from the city as a beach retreat for wealthy residents, so has a distinct personality. The city’s creatives gravitate here, and walls are plastered with imaginative street art, rainbow-hued colonial mansions have been turned into bars and you can pick up artworks from folk to modern. First, wander hand in hand through the Parque Municipal, which has artful flower beds, and then over the Bridge of Sighs; it’s not quite as storied or grand as the one in Venice, but it has inspired songs and paintings over the years. Pause for photos by La Ermita and La Catedral – the district’s two saffron-hued religious monuments. Art is all around you here, with graffitists going all out on the district’s walls – you can book a street-art tour, but for free you can get your fill by just pounding pavements. Otherwise, hit up the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (AKA MAC Lima), which – alongside through-provoking pieces – has a peaceful park around it and a lively programme of events. Or go further back at Museo Pedro de Osma, with a colonial-era collection in a century-old mansion, and way back at Museo Larco, which houses silver, gold and pottery from the ancients, and has an eyebrow-raising gallery dedicated to erotica. Once you’ve stopped clutching your pearls, buy some mod Peruvian jewellery and more (ceramics, handmade kids’ toys, handwoven hats, mini ‘altarpieces’) at concept store Dédalo, and avant-garde threads at Pulga. And then chill out on the beach, which you can access through the park – as the only capital city in South America on the Pacific coast, the sunsets are really something here, and dancers take to the Malecón around this time. And beyond the borough, see performers in Plaza de Armas, the city’s main square, scramble over pre-Incan pyramid Huaca Pucllana (Machu Picchu is a smidge too far for a day-trip), and paraglide along the coast.
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