The most remote luxury hotel in the world has more in common with a youth hostel than it'd like to admit. There are cool parts of the common spaces; there are places where nobody would be caught dead. There's a bar right in the middle of things. People meet in the hallways and aren't sure which language to speak. Do you say "hola" or "hello" or "guten tag" -- and more importantly, how can you decide in a split second which to deploy? There are cliques among the guests.
And yet the Explora Rapa Nui is no youth hostel. It is an outpost on the fringes of the planet -- a place the locals sometimes call, depending on your translation, "the navel" or "the end" of the world. That a small group of people were able to bend the environment to their will in the construction of this hotel would be itself an accomplishment worth acknowledging. Here, though, they've done it while achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design recognition, making this hotel the first in South America to meet those lofty LEED standards, all the while more than 2,300 miles from mainland Chile.
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