Mas Mendoza

We stayed at a hotel called Cavas Wine Lodge which was neat. It was about 25 minutes out of Mendoza and in the middle of a vineyard. You drive up a loooong driveway and arrive at a colonial-looking main building. It had a similar feel to Los Notros - rustic, frontier-chic - but was a bit more sophisticated but also less cozy. All the rooms are separate, in their own Adobe-style houses. You follow long paths through the vineyards to each little house.

Big sky country, Argentine-style.

Viewfrom main building to a couple

of the room-houses.

Our house was a one-bedroom suite with a private patio and plunge pool. And on the roof was a deck with an outdoor fireplace and a fabulous view. The bathroom had stone floors and walls and was very outdoor-chic. It was all designed very well and looked great. The downside of all the rustic-ness was that there were cans of Raid on one of the shelves, just in case, and spiders in the bathroom. It wasn't awful, it was just fine, nice, really, but me no likey spiders.

One of the many fabulous views of Cerro La Plata and friends.

And the plunge pool was a great touch, especially if we had had, you know, some free time to lie around. But it was so hot in this area you couldn't be outside and uncovered for too long. So lying by the little pool might not have been an option anyway. You would have gotten quite crispy. Plus the pool needed a little once over with the net-thingy.

Not a great photo, but you can see the little pool.

The cool outdoor shower is out of the frame to the right.

I'm among the vines to get the photo.

The bathroom and patio were quite sexy, really. (If you can forget about the spiders. I think I only saw two, but still. Ick. And the cans of Raid, while never necessary, were unsettling.) There was a big claw-footed tub in front of a sliding glass door, looking out onto the outdoor stone shower, patio and vineyard. And the indoor shower was all made of stone and very kewl. And you were tucked way into these vineyards so it was all very private.