Patagonia: Torres del Paine - 7 Days
Chile | Feb 15 - Feb 24, 2018

Sai
Sai M.
Brooklyn, NY | Reviewed on Mar 03, 2018

Bob and I had an incredible and very varied trip to Chile for our honeymoon. We spent the first 5 days of it in Patagonia, where we did the "W" route. Our guide, Camilla, was the perfect person to take me, and inexperienced hiker, from place to place. She took such good care of us, and her pacing was perfect to get us where we needed to go without making me totally work out. Her cheerfulness and enthusiasm were such a treat.

After that we spent a day in Santiago and three days in Cochagua Valley doing wine tours and eating unbelievably good food. Our guides for the wine tour, Jose and Fransisco, were a lot of fun and really knowledgeable. We enjoyed all of the tours and tastings we did and were grateful to meet everyone there.

The two highlights of the wine-touring part of our trip were lunch at Fuegos de Alpata, the restaurant at Montes vineyard. Both the food and views were unbelievable, and it took us several hours afterwards to be able to recover and for the haze to wear off. The second was our accommodation - Hotel Quinta Maria. The massive and colorful room in the middle of a gorgeous garden was pretty great, but the best part of the stay was the hospitality of the hotel's owner, Eduardo, who took great care of us and made us a multi-course breakfast, including home-grown fruit and eggs from his own chickens, each morning.

Overall, we couldn't have asked for a better experience and are very grateful for James and Mayra's planning and decision-making. They captured exactly what we wanted.

Local specialist: James M
James
James M
Local specialist in Cusco, Peru | Replied on Mar 04, 2018

Hi Sai, many thanks for your kind review. We're really pleased you had a great honeymoon, you chose the best destination for it. It was a pleasure planning your trip, logistically Patagonia is difficult but always worth the effort. The vineyard tour is amazing, I love your description of it. Hope you have some awesome memories and please keep in touch, best regards, James