Four-star One MICHELIN Key Urquillos, Sacred Valley
explora Valle Sagrado
Fifty rooms of adobe and timber over old Inca cornfields at 2,900 metres, with a seventeenth-century manor house turned into the spa.
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- MICHELIN
- One Key
- Rooms
- 50, including six suites
- Opened
- July 2016
- From the airport
- About 90 km from Cusco
The hotel
Built around what the ground gave up.
explora opened here in July 2016, its first lodge outside Chile. The Chilean architect José Cruz Ovalle drew a long building of adobe and wood among the cornfields near the village of Urquillos. While it was going up, the builders came upon an Inca site, and the plans changed to work around it. The land was once an Inca corn plantation.
On the estate stands the Pumacahua house, a colonial manor from the seventeenth century, restored with Peru's archaeology institute. It now holds the bath house: saunas, steam rooms, hot tubs and an outdoor pool. Rooms have no television and no minibar. Every one looks out over the corn and the mountains. More than forty guided explorations leave from the lodge, on foot, by bicycle or by van.
- Explorations More than forty guided outings on foot, by bicycle or by van, in small groups, planned each day around your interests and fitness.
- Pumacahua Bath House The spa in a restored seventeenth-century manor, with saunas, steam rooms, hot tubs and an outdoor pool.
- All included Meals, soft drinks, explorations and the bath house are part of the stay. Wine, spirits and Machu Picchu tickets are extra.
Rooms & suites
Rooms that face the fields.
Fifty rooms in all, every one with a view of the cornfields and the Andes.
- Rooms Room Forty-four of them, about 40 square metres, without television or minibar.
- Suites Suite Six suites of about 53 square metres.
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 3 pm.
- Children Families are welcome; cribs and extra beds on request. The lodge suggests planning the explorations with children in mind when booking.
- Pets Not accepted.
- Altitude The lodge sits at about 2,900 metres, some 500 metres below Cusco.
Getting there
Flying to Sacred Valley.
Cusco airport takes scheduled flights from Lima and private jets. The lodge is about 90 kilometres away, a drive of one and a half to two hours according to explora.
- La Paz 1 h 00
- Lima 1 h 05
- Bogotá 3 h 00
- Santiago 3 h 15
- Miami 6 h 10
Questions
What guests ask first.
- How many MICHELIN Keys does explora Valle Sagrado have?
- One. The lodge holds one MICHELIN Key in the current selection.
- What is included in a stay?
- All meals, soft drinks, the guided explorations and use of the bath house. Alcoholic drinks, individual spa treatments, private guides and Machu Picchu tickets and trains cost extra.
- How far is the lodge from Cusco airport?
- About 90 kilometres, one and a half to two hours by road.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Sacred Valley?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Sacred Valley, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
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Staying at explora Valle Sagrado?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Sacred Valley, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.