Visiting the cruise ship in the Andes

Summer Skiing with a difference at Portillo, Chile

With our primary goals firmly cemented in the importance of exemplary personal service and unique travel experiences, it was only a matter of time before we were seduced by the charms of Portillo, South America’s oldest ski area. Standing in the shadow of Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas, the sunshine-yellow facade of the Hotel Portillo is a welcoming site for the lucky ones who discover this all-inclusive ski experience, a two hour drive from the capital of Santiago. Standing alone, the Hotel commandeers the powder white slopes giving you and your maximum of 500 fellow guests exclusive access to the numerous all-ability slopes and 13 chair lifts leading to them, including a one-of-a-kind lift that was specifically designed for Portillo to cope with steepness of the expert runs!
This compact and beautifully managed ski area, home of the 1966 Alpine World Championships, has been family-run for over fifty years and the Purcell family pride themselves on their personal service with over 450 employees, that’s one per guest. “It’s like a cruise ship in the mountains,” says world champion extreme skier Chris Davenport, a long-time Portillo visitor who holds his annual ‘Ski with the Superstars’ freeskiing clinic at the resort.
Given that this is summer skiing for us, running from late June to early October (best months July and August), the Ski School has the pick of best instructors in the world and is internationally renowned for its quality. This quality extends to its fabulous childcare facilities – Portillo is extremely family-friendly with the resort featuring a nursery, daycare centre and kids camp and offering kids menus, après-ski kids entertainment and ‘Kids Ski Free Weeks’.
Trips to Portillo will start from 2008 and can be combined with visits to a number of other destinations, including a cultural trip to Machu Picchu or perhaps even a beach holiday in Brazil. To find out more, please contact us.

Related Post
How to spend 48 hours in Rio De Janeiro How to spend 48 hours in Rio de Janeiro: a sun-soaked, sprawling metropolis tucked towards the far Western tip of the world’s fifth-largest country? S...
Plant your Future: Restoring the Amazon One Tree at a Time The Peruvian Amazon is one of the most biodiverse environments in the world with around 300 tree species per hectare. To put this into perspective, in...
Help Reforest The Sacred Valley This month Aracari is proud to announce it's support of Valle Sagrado Verde, a community project to reforest the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Since ...
Upcoming Events with The Anglo-Peruvian Society in London Whoever said that you can only enjoy Peruvian culture in Peru?! Founded in 1961 and based in London, the charity organization The Anglo-Peruvian Socie...
The Route of the Achupalla with Tierra de los Yachaqs Tierra de Los Yachaqs is a rural community based tourism initiative that welcome visitors to their villages to learn about traditional life in the And...
Shopping for Christmas Gifts in Lima Christmas Gifts in Lima For those of you in or around Lima during the holiday season or just looking for some shopping suggestions in the city, we ha...