Lima, Peru

Fausto

Price per night from$210.10

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD210.10), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Neoclassical nook

Setting

Mellow Miraflores

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Lived-in luxury is the MO at Fausto, a boutique townhouse stay in Lima’s leafy Miraflores neighborhood. The façade is a neoclassical confection; within, cool modern interiors are casually dotted with antique finds. There’s a curated à la carte menu, but you’re just as welcome to forage in the pantry. Staff can arrange sommelier-led pisco and wine tastings, but days spent on the plant-draped rooftop terrace sipping and reading seem fittingly low-key. If life’s all about balance, Fausto sets the blueprint.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Five, including two suites.

Check–Out

11am. Check-in is at 3pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates include a daily breakfast spread of home-baked bread, cheese and ham, fresh fruit, yoghurt, granola and homemade jam, as well as an à la carte dish of your choice.

Also

Unfortunately, this townhouse stay is not suitable for guests with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Rooftop terrace, kitchen, bikes to borrow, yoga patio, paid laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, sound system, air-conditioning, heater, coffee-making kit, free bottled water and local handmade bath products.

Our favourite rooms

The Grande room gets serious bonus points for its Italian marble bath tub, but the Mediana rooms each have a private terrace primed for people watching or postcard penning.

Packing tips

Sturdy trainers and fitted trousers will come in handy if you plan to take one of the hotel’s bikes for a spin about the city.

Also

You won’t find bigger fans of fine Limeño craftsmanship than at Fausto. In the sala, you can browse a curated boutique of locally crafted souvenirs, many made from recycled materials.

Children

Welcome, but not particularly catered to. An extra bed can be added to the Grande room on request.

Sustainability efforts

Fausto uses organic, locally made bath products, and there’s a no plastic policy throughout the hotel.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Take up residence on the rooftop terrace for long, leisurely lunches that stretch on well past sunset.

Dress Code

Laidback looks are all good in this home-from-home hangout – just swap the PJs for some palazzo pants, and if you’ve splurged on a pair of handmade earrings in one of Miraflores’ craft boutiques, pop them on for dinner.

Hotel restaurant

Fausto has an open kitchen policy, with a fridge and pantry packed with fresh Peruvian produce, so you can forage for picnic suppers whenever hunger strikes – perhaps queso fresco spread on fresh-baked bread, followed by sweet granadilla scooped straight from the rind. Sociable sharing options include carpaccio, salads and Peruvian cheese boards. And there are some comfort-food classics, too, so after a day hot-footing it around town, you can help yourself to hearty soups and nourishing bowls of pasta.

Breakfast is an à la carte affair, running the gamut from tropical fruit bowls, oatmeal and eggs any way you fancy to traditional pastries and pancakes slathered in maple syrup.

Hotel bar

Found in the kitchen, Fausto’s honesty bar is stocked with locally sourced spirits and a curated selection of wines. There’s all the kit you’ll need to mix yourself a tipple, but if you’d prefer to leave it to the pros, you can always order from the signature drinks menu.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7am to 10.30am.

Location

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Address
Fausto
Avenida de la Aviación 316 Miraflores
Lima
15074
Peru

You’ll find Fausto in a neoclassical townhouse in Lima’s leafy, ocean-lapped Miraflores district.

Planes

It’s a 40-minute drive from Lima International Airport. Rates include return airport transfers.

Automobiles

Miraflores is a walkable barrio and the hotel has bikes to borrow, so you’re best off leaving the hair-raising Lima traffic to the locals. Fausto doesn’t have a private car park, but on-street parking is available in front of the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Start your exploration with a sea salt-swept stroll along the Malecón, Miraflores’ clifftop walkway that snakes between coastal parks and the Pacific. Parque El Libro makes an especially dramatic spot for a sit-down, with its manicured green slopes seemingly plunging into the waves. Down on the shore, Punta Roquitas draws the surf crowd with its powerful breaks, and La Pampilla is a shingley beach that’s perfect for a seaside wander.

Your Miraflores stay might mark the start of your journey to Machu Picchu, but closer to home you have Huaca Pucllana, a millennia-old adobe pyramid under half an hour’s walk from the hotel. Museo Larco is home to a huge collection of jewellery and ceramics from Peru’s ancient cultures, including Incan and Nazca works. And if archaeology buffs aren’t already hot under the collar, let the exhibit of ancient erotica set the mood.

Local restaurants

The menu of ceviche, sashimi and poke varies depending on the day’s catch at La Mar. Whatever you order at this seafood spot by Peruvian culinary king Gaston Acurio, it’ll be painstakingly fresh and best paired with a pisco-spiked cocktail. Pitch up early, or be prepared to queue with a crowd of in-the-loop Limeños.

For Nikkei cuisine, make a beeline for Maido, where chef Mitsuharu Tsumura melds his Peruvian and Japanese heritage in a finely-spun, 12-course tasting menu.

Local bars

Lady Bee leads Lima’s craft cocktail scene. Co-founder and pisco sommelier Alonso Palomino unveils a seasonal drinks list every few months, but the Three Sips Martini is a house staple, with Arequipa olives, trout caviar and sea lettuce balanced on a spoon carved from native pucaquiro wood. Sustainability is a central tenet, so ingredients are sourced from regional growers and the bar’s boutique spotlights local artists.

Or let your hair down at Cocodrilo Verde, where Lima’s homegrown musical talent keep toes tapping till late with live jazz and salsa tunes.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this homely hotel in Miraflores and unpacked their bottles of pisco and hand-stitched textiles, a full account of their Peruvian city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Fausto in Lima…

With its clifftop esplanade and cool eateries, Lima’s Miraflores district has the feel of Los Angeles via the Andes. Fitting then, that days at chic pied-à-terre Fausto can follow the sociable SoCal blueprint – brunch of juice-down-your-chin fruit and huevos however you like them, a day spent browsing artisan boutiques, then back for Peruvian carpaccio and sommelier-picked wine out on the rooftop terrace. Mornings, too, are much improved by your boutique lodgings: hit-snooze starts morph into solo yoga out on the patio, sorties into the produce-stuffed pantry, and leisurely cycles down to the beach. Later, perhaps, you’ll fix yourself a spritz from the honesty bar and hunker down on the sala’s mustard-hued sofa with your holiday read. We’d say make yourself at home, but at Fausto, you’d be hard-pressed not to.

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