“A ‘one off' experience but some hardships to endure”
This one‑off visit will stay with me for a long time: the three rooms sit on a floating reed bed in the Uros Islands group, though a bit farther from the main cluster that draws many day tourists. There’s a separate dining room linked by a wooden boardwalk and the owners’ accommodation. The setting is perfect for peace and quiet. Jose, the owner, brings you back to the local pier near Puno for onward travel and gives a short tour of Uros, explaining how the floating islands are built and the communities involved. Each room has its own pontoon that holds the main bedroom and en‑suite shower, a daybed facing the sunset, two loungers catching the afternoon sun, and a suspended first‑floor viewing platform. The room itself is very roomy, with sofa chairs at both front and back to enjoy sunrise and sunset. The only issue in the area is the extreme temperatures. October should have ended the cold, but our overnight stay saw temperatures drop well below zero. The room’s heater works until about 9 pm, and a portable gas heater that we struggled to start (the operator’s fault because it worked earlier when demonstrated) was fine for the evening but the morning was so cold that we had no water as all the pipes had frozen. It’s not the hotel’s fault, just something to be aware of.
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