Hotel Antumalal, Chile

While visiting Chile’s Lake District in November 2019, my wife, Arnette, and I stayed at a nice hotel beside a beautiful lake within a mile of the center of the delightful town of Pucón, which is also on the lake.

Hotel Antumalal (Camino Pucón a Villarrica Km.2, Pucón, Novena Region de La Araucanía; phone +56 45 2 441011, www.antumalal.com) has a nice spa. The food was good and the service, very professional.

Our rate for a lake view was about $400 a night, including the use of an amazing indoor pool.

Many noteworthy guests — including Queen Elizabeth of England, Neil Armstrong, James Stewart, Barry Goldwater and Emma Thompson — have stayed at Hotel Antumalal.

We rented a car in Santiago so that on our drive to Puerto Montt in the Lake District, we could see several other areas along the way. All in all, it was a very nice visit to a California-like country.

JOSEPH WHITEHOUSE
Oakland, CA