San Genaro - the good view home

Eight blocks from Puno's Plaza de Armas, the San Genaro guesthouse on Calle San Francisco 471 sits in the quieter Las Cruces quarter with elevated sightlines toward Lake Titicaca. Its 9.8 score from 53 reviews ranks it among the top-rated small stays in the city.

The property carries no official star rating — common among family-run guesthouses at 3,827 metres — but the name 'good view home' signals the selling point: upper-floor windows face the lake rather than the street.

Puno serves as the main gateway for day boats to the Uros floating reed islands and the terraced island of Taquile; both depart from the port pier roughly two kilometres downhill from Las Cruces.