Marriott Hotel Santiago

Especially for the business traveler, the Santiago, Marriott will serve you well. Impeccable South American service greets you as soon as you arrive in the driveway. Although you are about 15 minutes from downtown, the hotel has a good location in relation to shopping and restaurants. Although I would rate the lobby lounge a 6 out of 10, the executive level lounge had good local fare for finger foods and a good selection of Chilean beers and wines. The hotel has 2 restaurants - The Cafe Med and the Latin Grill. The Cafe Med has a great lunch buffet that had everything from Calamari to Chilean Sea Bass, everything in between and a good, diverse salad selection. The Latin Grill was superb and it was a shame that it was only open for lunch (with the exception that it was good for my waistline). I had a spectacular shrimp appretizer that had a sauce that was so good that I almost wiped out the table's bread basket trying to mop it all up, and my steak could have been cut with a butter knife. I also had a breathtaking view from my room that was nice to wak up to every day.