More Than US$200

Enjoying its own black-sand beach, the mammoth lakefront Gran Hotel Pucón (Holzapfel 190, tel./fax 045/441001, www.granhotelpucon.cl [1], US$178/237 and up s/d) dates from the 1930s, when the state railroad agency Ferrocarriles del Estado chose Pucón [2] as Chile’s next great tourist destination. It now focuses on packages from two or three days to a week.