Belmond Miraflores Park

WOW! What a wonderful hotel. It is located right next to a small park and convenient to dining and shopping in Lima. The general manager, Thomas, does a fantastic job overseeing all areas of the hotel. The rooms are bright, modern, extremely clean and comfortable. The rest of the property is beautifully maintained, from the pool and fitness areas to the bars and restaurants. The breakfast buffet, with a panoramic 11th floor view, offers a great variety of choices. The concierge service and front desk employees go out of their way to make your stay pleasant. They will exchange money, make document copies, arrange restaurant reservations and map out walking paths. I highly recommend using the hotel’s own car service. They will drive you to any destination. When you are ready for a pickup, your restaurant can call the service and the car will transport you back to the hotel. When in Lima, make sure you stay at this property.

The Belmond Miraflores Park is a superb luxury city hotel excellently located in the up-scale Miraflores area in Lima overlooking the Pacific Ocean. While no hotel is perfect, this one comes about as close as I've experienced. Everything about the Belmond was excellent with exceptional service, lovely newly renovated rooms, and exquisite dining. While the hotel lacked some of the over-the-top grandeur and opulence of newer luxury properties in other cities, the professionalism and anticipation of the service, high quality of amenities and fit/finish of the property were such that I feel this was among the most consistently good luxury hotels I have stayed in (and I stay in luxury properties frequently). This is precisely the sort of hotel that deserves its 5/5 tripadvisor rating. The hotel looks large from the outside, but only has 89 rooms which gives its public areas an air of tranquility. I never saw crowds in the public areas – a key defining feature of good-quality 5-star hotels. The lobby features an enormous fresh flower display that permeates the whole area with the lovely scent of hibiscus and roses… a welcome introduction after a long journey. Check-in was professional, efficient and obliging, with the front desk member escorting us through to the room. All my interactions with staff were excellent and comparable to the finest I’ve experienced. Each staff member made me feel confident that they would do everything to meet my needs while making me feel like a valued guest. Details matter and I noticed how the front desk staff spoke to his colleague in English when I made a request to break a large banknote. In many hotels, the staff member would have reverted to the local language when discussing with another team-member, but I appreciated that little courtesy and feel like this is the sort of thing that separates a very high-functioning hotel team from one merely doing well. Our standard room was large with plenty of space for a couple to stretch out. I’m not sure when the hotel was last renovated, but everything felt very clean, new and well maintained with contemporary design cues and furnishings. The room met all the expectations I had for a 5-star hotel with large bathroom including separate shower and bathtub, excellent water pressure and good amount of counter space for two people to lay out their toiletries. We received welcome cookies in our room when we arrived and macaroon-type pastries for turndown service – both were really, really good. I think those cookies were among the best I had! Turndown and housekeeping service were detail-oriented (ie. charging wires were carefully tied up) and excellent while in-room amenities were also of very high quality. High quality, unique dining was another great feature of the hotel. This property just gets all the most important things right! We thoroughly enjoyed our dinner at Tragaluz, their lovely design-focused contemporary Peruvian restaurant. I often find this sort of modern cuisine more about presentation than taste, but this was not the case at Tragaluz where every dollop of sauce, color, vegetable and meat on the plate was integral to the overall taste and additive to the dish. The presentation, along with the art on the walls, was playful and fun, yet of very high quality. The cuisine here confirmed why Lima is a hotspot on the foodie map and equal to any capital in Europe. The hotel also features a lovely lobby bar and our breakfast at the top floor observatory restaurant was also very high quality. There is a spa and gym, which I did not try, and a small heated roof top pool with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean. The hotel plans activities for guests including a weekly neighborhood run with the manager and Pisco Sour making at the bar. Clientele seemed to be a mix of well-heeled European/American tourists and Latin American business-people. Altogether, I just loved this hotel. I loved that after a few hours I knew that I could count on everything – the room, service, dining – to be absolute high quality and that I had nothing to worry about. I usually am able to find some issue to nitpick at when staying at hotels, but I genuinely found no problems or potential areas for improvement here. I couldn’t recommend this hotel more for someone looking for a high-quality, luxury hotel experience with service that anticipates and delivers.

We had the cooking demonstration and market tour out of the Belmont Miraflores hotel. Had a wonderful time. First went to the local market and had a super informative tour about local Peruvian foods available at the market. Not just the fruits and vegetables but also walked though the meat section. Saw tongue, tripe as never seen before. Then back to the hotel for the cooking demonstration. It was in the hotel kitchens with the skis chef johan. He was amazing. He made ceviche and limo saltado and we ate them both sequentially. To be clear this isn’t a cooking class. My wife and o have done many and would have been happy to help but it seemed like that wasn’t an option. In any case, we had a lovely time.