Boulevard 251 Riverside Apartments

Top choice in Iquitos


We'll tell it to you straight: there is no better place to stay in Iquitos, either for the exceptional location, high above the banks of the river, or for the chic environs that those who check in enjoy here. There are three categories of accommodations, but we recommend the riverside apartments, on the upper floors gazing out at the river.

The spaces are light and sleek (some apartments have floor-to-ceiling windows) and there is an outside upper terrace with a barbecue. Apartments come with very well-equipped kitchenettes, which make completely shutting yourself off from the city's hectic goings-on a tempting possibility.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Iquitos attractions

1. Malecón

0.06 MILES

The sight of Iquitos' sophisticated riverside walkway, edged by swanky bars and restaurants and yet cut off from the rest of the world by hundreds of…

2. Historical Ships Museum

0.14 MILES

Moored below Plaza Castilla is the diverting Historical Ships Museum, on a 1906 Amazon riverboat, the gorgeously restored three-deck Ayapua. The…

3. Casa de Fierro

0.16 MILES

Every guidebook mentions the ‘majestic’ Casa de Fierro (Iron House), designed by Gustave Eiffel (of Eiffel Tower fame). It was made in Paris in 1860 and…

5. Museum of Indigenous Amazon Cultures

0.25 MILES

This intuitively presented museum takes you through the traits, traditions and beliefs of the tribes of the Amazon Basin, with a focus on the Peruvian…

6. Belén Mercado

0.81 MILES

At the southeast end of town is the floating shantytown of Belén, consisting of scores of huts, built on rafts, which rise and fall with the river. During…

7. Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm

4.05 MILES

Ostensibly, the Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm is a conservation and breeding center for Amazonian butterflies. Butterflies aplenty there certainly are,…

8. Laguna Quistacocha

7.75 MILES

This lake, 15km south of Iquitos, is served by minibus (S2) several times an hour from near Plaza 28 de Julio (corner of Bermúdez and Moore), as well as…