Last Saturday I celebrated my birthday at the Splendido Hotel, a very centric but practically unknown corner for people in Montevideo, with the exception of fashion productions, with its rather recognisable old style wallpapers.
It is an old mansion, known before as Solis Hotel and transformed into a cool hostel for the utmost international travellers. It mostly owes its charm to the great taste of Inara Ruglio, decorator and owner of that paradise of cute objects called Tiempo Funky. Though Neca, her mother and the hotel’s manager, doesn’t lack charm, either.
Splendido Hotel is the perfect way of travelling, whereas through time or style, without leaving Montevideo. Its enormous windows look right at the Teatro Solis. Saturday night, right after the union problems were solved, we were privileged enough to see it completely lit, and witness the exit of the opera, as if we lived in any of the great capitals of the world.
It is an old mansion, known before as Solis Hotel and transformed into a cool hostel for the utmost international travellers. It mostly owes its charm to the great taste of Inara Ruglio, decorator and owner of that paradise of cute objects called Tiempo Funky. Though Neca, her mother and the hotel’s manager, doesn’t lack charm, either.
Splendido Hotel is the perfect way of travelling, whereas through time or style, without leaving Montevideo. Its enormous windows look right at the Teatro Solis. Saturday night, right after the union problems were solved, we were privileged enough to see it completely lit, and witness the exit of the opera, as if we lived in any of the great capitals of the world.
If you want to find out more about the hotel, please visit its web site.
