Life Hotel Valle Sagrado

We stayed the night before and the night after a 2D/1N Machu Picchu tour. Even though we chose to stay in the Sacred Valley to avoid the altitude of Cusco, my husband still suffered from altitude sickness. The hotel has an on-site, 24/7 clinic! Dr. Helen and the nurses constantly checked on him and worked with us to get him healthy enough to see MP. The rest of the staff took care of the kids and I, two easy check-ins, a delicious dinner and 2 yummy breakfasts. The saunas (dry and steam) were great after hiking and the kids enjoyed the pool (it was too cold for me). It is true that there is no town within walking distance but accessing taxis is easy.

The moment we arrived we were met by hotel manager Dan who made our stay fantastic. The hotel is located in the outskirts of the town, so it's a nice quiet area away from the busy noisy tuk-tuks. We had a car, so it was nice to park in the safe parking lot as they close the gate in the evening, so we felt safe leaving luggage in the car. The hotel is attached to a hospital and "health's boutique"--in fact we weren't sure it was the place at first because there is no mention of "hotel" on any of the signage, but we didn't see any activity in the hospital while we were there. The room is spacious and clean with a good size bathroom. One thing to note, Expedia listed two queen beds, but they only have one king and one double or two double beds. The hotel has a unique open bright design, a pool, sauna and a movie theater (they were also showing an important football game there). Breakfast is included and made to order with fresh squeezed juice and coffee. Dan is fluent in 6 languages and my kids loved talking to him in another language. He had great suggestions for restaurants. We went to the pizza place in Urubamba (Pizza Wasi) and had this fantastic pizza. He also suggested that we take a longer route back to Cusco due to it being a better road, but we still took a shorter one and regretted as we had to wait for 45 min for a bulldozer to clear the fallen rocks from the road.