Hotel Cortez

Hotel Cortez sits on Santa Cruz's second ring road, along Cristóbal de Mendoza avenue, a walkable stretch toward the city's central plaza past a wide boulevard of shops and cafés. The building splits into two blocks arranged either side of a planted garden, terrace and a generous outdoor pool, which earns its keep in the humid heat of the Bolivian lowlands. Inside, the rooms lean contemporary and Bolivian in feeling…Hotel Cortez sits on Santa Cruz's second ring road, along Cristóbal de Mendoza avenue, a walkable stretch toward the city's central plaza past a wide boulevard of shops and cafés. The building splits into two blocks arranged either side of a planted garden, terrace and a generous outdoor pool, which earns its keep in the humid heat of the Bolivian lowlands. Inside, the rooms lean contemporary and Bolivian in feeling, with soundproofing and blackout curtains for quiet nights, while the spa handles massages and a sauna, and the restaurant and bar open onto the greenery. It reads as a working city hotel that keeps a calmer, garden-facing centre. The airport helipad sits roughly six minutes away by car, with the city itself about eight.