Awa Boutique & Boutique Hotel

The Hotel

Awa Boutique & Boutique Hotel sits at Avenida Roosevelt 14000, the central commercial-and-residential corridor running parallel to the Roosevelt Beach (the calmer Mansa-Bay-side beach where Punta del Este's Atlantic-Ocean-frontage transitions from the surf-Brava-side to the calm-Mansa-side). The property opened in the early 2010s as an Argentine-owned independent property and has held its position as the most-considered small-luxury boutique in central Punta del Este, the alternative to the inland-estate Hotel Fasano scale and the Manantiales-beachfront Mantra scale. The 55-key footprint sits between the smaller boutique cluster (L'Auberge 34, Casa Suaya 16) and the larger Mantra-scale, making Awa the considered mid-scale Roosevelt-Beach Punta del Este choice.

The 55 keys are spread across a contemporary 8-storey design-tower. Categories run from entry-tier Standard Rooms (32 sqm) through Junior Suites (45 sqm) to the named Awa Suite (75 sqm, the property's milestone unit, top-floor of the design-tower with private rooftop terrace and direct Atlantic-Ocean sightline). The interior register is the property's signature Pacific-Coast-influenced contemporary-design vocabulary, pale-natural-wood furniture by the property's Uruguayan-and-Argentine artisan network, hand-loomed Uruguayan wool textile commissions, custom-made driftwood lighting, and the deliberate decision to give the property a slightly cooler-and-more-Pacific-influenced register than the warmer-Brazilian Hotel Fasano vocabulary or the Tudor-revival L'Auberge.

Operationally Awa runs the small-luxury Punta-Roosevelt boutique register with the distinction of the rooftop pool. The Awa Restaurant, the property's contemporary-Uruguayan fine-dining venue inside the ground-floor lobby, runs a Uruguayan-Atlantic-fishery-and-Pampas-grill register; the Awa Bar runs the property's evening cocktail-and-Tannat-vintage programme. The rooftop pool, the only luxury-hotel rooftop pool on the Roosevelt Beach corridor, is the property's signature daily-routine asset and gives the property the only Roosevelt Beach hotel rooftop with the central-Punta sightline. The 8,000-sqft spa with 6 treatment rooms closes the brief.

What gives Awa the considered Roosevelt Beach mid-scale position, and the alternative to the inland Hotel Fasano scale, the Manantiales-coastal Mantra resort scale, and the smaller boutique cluster, is the central-Roosevelt-Beach contemporary-design register at mid-scale. The 55-key footprint gives the property a level of personal-attention that the larger Mantra cannot replicate; the rooftop pool gives the property a daily-routine asset that no other Roosevelt-Beach corridor luxury hotel delivers; and the rate point sits at the most-accessible Punta del Este luxury entry-tier (USD 320 vs Hotel Fasano's USD 980 vs Mantra's USD 480). For a contemporary-design solo retreat, an anniversary trip that wants the central-Roosevelt-Beach walking proposition, or an entry-tier Punta del Este luxury stay, Awa is the most-considered choice.

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