Hotel Victoria Regia

Iquitos


A blast of icy, air-conditioned air welcomes guests to this comfortable hostelry. It has excellent beds and sizable rooms that include fancy reading lights and minibars, plus hair dryers and baths in the bathrooms. One of the suites has a spa. The indoor pool and fine restaurant-bar attract upscale guests and business people.

The reality, though, is that this is not significantly better than several city hotels that charge S100 or more less. Various promotions can reduce the quoted rates by almost half, however: check the website for offers.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Iquitos attractions

1. Museum of Indigenous Amazon Cultures

0.24 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…

3. Casa de Fierro

0.32 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…

4. Belén Mercado

0.39 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…

5. Malecón

0.41 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…

6. Historical Ships Museum

0.6 MILES

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

7. Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm

4.08 MILES

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

8. Laguna Quistacocha

7.27 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…