Sanma Hotel

Outside the park, locations don’t get better than this boutiquey spa hotel which sits right next to Iguacu’s entrance gates.

The hotel is one of Iguassu’s most comfortable. Rooms are decked out with warm polished woods and modern muted colours. Floor-to-ceiling windows give a real sense of immersion in nature.

Great facilities include a big pool, football pitch, tennis and volleyball courts, a games room, sauna and spa and a web of wildlife-watching trails leading through the hotel’s reserve.

While the hotel has one of the best restaurants in the region, there are a handful of others – including a churrascaria barbeque within walking distance. The bird park, helicopter flight centre and entrance to the national park are a few hundred metres east of the lobby.

The hotel’s 130,000sq m rainforest abutts the national park; meaning that guests are staying within the wildlife-rich protected rainforest.