Don’t, just don’t
Sadly a complete fail!
This claims to be a luxury eco lodge but sadly is more of a broken cheapo hostel.
After a few weeks touring Chile and expending a lot of energy visiting various great places in Chile, we decided to splash out on a nice place to stay in Easter Island, tacking on a few extra days to recharge our batteries.
Sadly this place is completely the wrong place to do this.
The hotel is very tired and worn. Our room had missing paint, large gouges out of the walls and what looked like patches of damp. The toilet seat was broken and didn’t fit the bowl. The typical hotel washing line was present but broken, with someone splicing in an extra piece of red cord, although that too was broken. The French windows rattled in the frame when the wind blew (which it often does on an Island a couple of thousand from anywhere), so don’t count on any sleep. The windows have no screens and indeed part of the shower is open to the elements so any hope of staying mosquito free is but a faint hope. A bit of a disappointment in an expensive hotel in an area known for Denge Fever. The gardens are left largely wild, which I rather liked, it is a rather casual style.
The hotel is perhaps a kilometre from the ocean, so you will not hear any lapping waves.
Food at the Altiplanico is supposed to be good although we had a very mixed experience. One good meal, one complete fail (asked for an ingredient to be left out and they totally ignored this). A repla