The closest stopover to Machu Picchu, staying overnight at Aguas Calientes allows you to catch the first bus to Machu Picchu and the last one to return home, thus avoiding the crowds from Cuzco. The close proximity has encouraged an onslaught of hotels to pop up and there are many options for every budget. Prices are higher, especially in the high season, and can be negotiated down in the low season. Camping is also an option.
The Presidente Hotel has earned two-star expectations, but charges a rate more in common with three-star facilities. Single rooms start at $45 in low-season and $50 in high. However, it justifies its higher price with niceties such as Jacuzzi bathtubs in the rooms. This hotel sits between...
This simple, efficient hostel offers breakfast, hot water, telephone and fax service, a safety box, luggage storage, a row of computers in the lobby with Internet access, an in-house massage therapist, free tourist information and even pool. Not the swimming variety, but billiards. The rooms...
This is one of the more mid-range hostels you will find along the tavern-and-tourist filled Avenida Pachacútec, with prices fluctuating between $20 and $30 for single rooms with bathrooms, depending on the season. There are only 14 rooms, all of them spacious, clean and nice to look at, and they...
Sumaq Macchu Picchu Hotel is an exclusive luxury hotel at the base of Macchu Picchu. This four-star hotel blends in well with its location: everything from the architecture to the cuisine borrow from Andean influences. The exterior design aims to blend with the landscape, while interior decorations...
This is right next door the Presidente Hotel, is managed by the same company, and very much resembles it except that by defining itself as a "hostel" rather than "hotel," and virtually functions as the no-frills version of its more expensive neighbor. The prices--single rooms go...