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 a number of thousand foreigners dwelling there. It’s nowhere near Bogota in relation to upscale properties to select from although and we doubled our variety of opinions there from one to 2. We’ve simply added an in depth overview of one of the best 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 resorts, again within the days 40 years in the past when the protection scenario within the metropolis was quite a bit totally different than it’s at this time–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, essentially the most upscale neighborhood in Medellin.
A lot of the different resorts in Poblado are fairly totally different in two methods: they’re geared to a younger and hip crowd that’s right here to occasion 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 may put one. That’s true for the opposite property we’ve reviewed, the Charlee Resort, and it’s true for many of the others that can come up in searches once you’re on websites like Expedia.
Try our video tour of the Intercontinental to get a way of how spacious this property is:
Poblado resorts which have a pool wherever close to as giant because the Intercontinental’s are typically 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 possibly can at all times discover somebody once you want one thing,” I overheard one American say, most likely 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 most recent 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 occasional many of the day till teatime after which cocktail time.
There’s a big fitness center with an excellent array of apparatus plus a full spa for those who may use a therapeutic massage. You may get by with out leaving right here since there’s room service, two retailers, a enterprise heart, and assembly house. You don’t should go far to discover although since El Poblado’s essential restaurant and nightlife space is lower than 10 minutes away by taxi. (You possibly can stroll right down to it pretty simply, however getting again is like climbing a mountain.)
Rooms are a number of the best-equipped within the metropolis, with all you’d anticipate from an Intercontinental, together with nightly turndown service. There are a number of suite choices which can be well worth the improve, particularly proper now when the greenback is so robust in opposition to the native foreign money.
In order for you a big lodge with loads of staffers who can converse English, that is one of the best luxurious lodge in Medellin. Go right here to see our full overview of Intercontinental Medellin Resort in Colombia.
Article by Timothy
Timothy Scott is the founder and editor of Luxurious Latin America and has been masking the area as a journey journalist for the reason that mid-2000s. He has visited every nation we cowl a number of occasions and is predicated in a UNESCO World Heritage metropolis in central Mexico, the place he owns a house. See contact data right here.
