We simply spent a few weeks touring in Colombia and a few of that was in a metropolis that has grow to be a hotspot for distant employees previously decade: Medellin. It’s the closest factor to a digital nomad hotspot in South America, with just a few thousand foreigners residing there. It’s nowhere near Bogota in terms of upscale properties to select from although and we doubled our variety of critiques there from one to 2. We’ve simply added an in depth evaluation of the perfect full-service luxurious lodge in Medellin: the Intercontinental.
That is no new child on the block although. This was one of many metropolis’s first full-service inns, again within the days 40 years in the past when the protection state of affairs within the metropolis was lots completely different than it’s at the moment–as was the quantity of wealth. The benefit of coming in that early, and hanging on by means of the ups and downs, is that this property has an opulent quantity of land in El Poblado, probably the most upscale neighborhood in Medellin.
Many of the different inns in Poblado are fairly completely different in two methods: they’re geared to a younger and hip crowd that’s right here to social gathering and they’re largely skinny high-rises which can be brief on public house. They’ve a roof deck pool not simply due to the views: it was the one place they might put one. That’s true for the opposite property we now have reviewed, the Charlee Resort, and it’s true for a lot of the others that may come up in searches while you’re on websites like Expedia.
Take a look at our video tour of the Intercontinental to get a way of how spacious this property is:
Poblado inns which have a pool wherever close to as giant because the Intercontinental’s are usually 3- and 4-star chain choices that don’t present the graceful, bilingual service you’ll discover at this one. “It’s good to be at a lodge the place you may at all times discover somebody while you want one thing,” I overheard one American say, in all probability evaluating the small military of staffers at this property to what you discover within the USA proper now, the place the DIY ethic that existed earlier than the newest labor crunch has gotten even worse.
There are two full eating places right here. The primary is an open-air one by the pool that’s coated with a thatched palapa, making this really feel extra like a resort than a metropolis lodge. The second is in the primary constructing close by on the identical degree, with a terrace space and an indoor one. That is the place the wonderful breakfast buffet occurs, full with a variety of all of the fruit that Colombia is ready to develop. Then on the foyer degree is a big lounge house that served baked items and low a lot of the day till teatime after which cocktail time.
There’s a big fitness center with an excellent array of kit plus a full spa when you may use a therapeutic massage. You might get by with out leaving right here since there’s room service, two outlets, a enterprise middle, and assembly house. You don’t should go far to discover although since El Poblado’s principal restaurant and nightlife space is lower than 10 minutes away by taxi. (You may stroll all the way down to it pretty simply, however getting again is like climbing a mountain.)
Rooms are a few of the best-equipped within the metropolis, with all you’d count on from an Intercontinental, together with nightly turndown service. There are just a few suite choices which can be definitely worth the improve, particularly proper now when the greenback is so robust in opposition to the native forex.
If you’d like a big lodge with loads of staffers who can converse English, that is the perfect luxurious lodge in Medellin. Go right here to see our full evaluation of Intercontinental Medellin Resort in Colombia.
Article by Timothy
Timothy Scott is the founder and editor of Luxurious Latin America and has been overlaying the area as a journey journalist because the mid-2000s. He has visited every nation we cowl a number of instances and is predicated in a UNESCO World Heritage metropolis in central Mexico, the place he owns a house. See contact data right here.
