Hotel Casa Real - Viña Santa Rita
A vineyard-estate pool inside a 40-hectare historic park
About this hotel
Hotel Casa Real - Viña Santa Rita is the outlier on this list by design: its pool sits inside a 40-hectare park designed by French landscaper Guillermo Renner, part of the historic Santa Rita vineyard estate roughly 42 kilometres from central Santiago. The sixteen rooms follow a neoclassic style with garden and pool views, renovated in 2017 from a historical monument into a boutique hotel that still runs as a working winery. Two restaurants, Casa Real inside the main building and Doña Paula in the gardens, both pour a wide range of estate wines alongside meals. Beyond the pool, the park includes a lagoon, black-necked swans and Roman baths, and guests can visit the on-site Museo Andino or join organised wine tastings and a gourmet picnic in the gardens.
- Vineyard-estate pool
- 40-hectare landscaped park
- Two restaurants
- Wine tastings on request
Our take
This suits travellers building a dedicated day trip or overnight around wine country rather than using Santiago as a city base. The pool and garden setting reward a slower pace than the city hotels on this list allow. Anyone wanting a city-centre base for Santiago sightseeing, or a resort-scale pool deck rather than a quieter estate pool, should book a Las Condes or Providencia property instead and treat this as a separate excursion.
- ✓Book a wine tasting or the gourmet garden picnic ahead, since both require organising in advance.
- ✓Treat this as an overnight or full-day trip rather than a quick stop; it sits well outside central Santiago.
- ✓Walk the 40-hectare park beyond the pool itself, including the lagoon and Roman baths, before or after a swim.
Why we love it
- Pool inside a 40-hectare vineyard park
- Boutique rooms in a historic monument
- Two restaurants pouring estate wines
- Wine tastings and gourmet picnics available
Why guests love itWe added an overnight here at the end of our Santiago trip for the vineyard setting, and the pool exceeded expectations, framed by gardens rather than a usual hotel deck, with actual swans on the estate's lagoon nearby. Dinner at Doña Paula in the gardens paired well with the estate's own wine, a highlight of the trip. The 42-kilometre drive from central Santiago took about fifty minutes, worth planning as its own day. For anyone building wine country into a Santiago itinerary, this is worth it.