Cusco Romance: Two Belmond Hotels
A romantic Cusco stay mostly comes down to three choices: which of two adjoining hotels, which quiet viewpoint, and which dinner that isn’t a group tour stop.
Belmond Hotel Monasterio and Belmond Palacio Nazarenas
Both are real, currently operating, adjacent luxury properties in San Blas, built into restored colonial-era buildings. Palacio Nazarenas holds the city’s only outdoor pool and made the World’s 50 Best Hotels 2025 extended list; Monasterio sits inside a former 16th-century monastery, with the quieter, more historic feel of the two. Belmond’s own Cusco hotels page has current room and rate details for both. Check Cusco hotel availability on Booking.com for anything outside that price bracket.
A private wine or pisco tasting
A private tasting or cooking class for two is a genuinely bookable, higher-register version of the standard group cooking class, and works well as a first evening after arrival, once the day’s altitude has settled. Look up private wine and pisco tastings in Cusco on GetYourGuide .
A free sunset, two ways
Sacsayhuaman’s walls catch the evening light well above the city, free once inside the grounds, and a San Blas viewpoint does the same thing closer to the historic center without the walk out. Either pairs easily with dinner afterward rather than replacing it.
Green Point, for a quieter dinner
Green Point, a plant-based restaurant in San Blas with twelve years of trading behind it, is the honest lower-key option next to the Belmond properties’ formal dining rooms, worth booking ahead on a weekend evening.
Getting the pace right
Cusco sits at roughly 3,400m, and a slow first day matters here as much as anywhere else in the city; a couple planning a splurge dinner or a private tasting on day one should build in rest beforehand rather than arriving straight off a flight and going out that same night. cuscoturismo.gob.pe carries current opening hours for the sites above.
The family-friendly activities guide on this site covers the same city for a different kind of trip, and the Cusco 3-day itinerary shows where an evening like this fits against a short visit.
Verdict: pick one of the two Belmond properties as the splurge, add a private tasting for the one big planned evening, and let a free sunset and Green Point carry the rest of the stay. None of this needs booking more than a week or two ahead outside of peak dry-season months, which leaves the rest of a short trip free to stay flexible around how the altitude is actually treating both of you.