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Interested in real estate and expat life in Brazil? Looking for practical information on buying a second home or making the most of your stay in the country? UruguayNow's sister site, BrazilianLiving.com will go live in November.
And the winner is… Results of the UruguayNow awards for 2010
They may not quite be the Oscars, but UruguayNow has its own awards, six in all, for 2010. We hope that our pale-blue certificates (sorry, but there are no shiny gold statuettes for the moment) will serve as a recognition of excellence in the country's hotel and restaurant sectors. The research was carried out between December 2009 and March 2010. Journalists requiring more details of the selection and award criteria should mail Nick Foster, publisher of UruguayNow at nick@uruguaynow.com. The awards ceremony took place at the headquarters of Uruguay's National Tourism Ministry in Montevideo on 13 April 2010. Our thanks go to the Ministry for their precious support of the UruguayNow travel guide project. The award winners are:
Best-Value Hotel in Montevideo: Regency Golf, Punta Carretas
Best Business Hotel in Montevideo: Sheraton, Punta Carretas
Best Restaurant in Montevideo: Francis, Punta Carretas
Montevideo's Most Innovative Dining Experience: Rara Avis, Ciudad Vieja
Best Boutique Hotel in Punta del Este: L'Auberge
Best-Value Boutique Hotel in Punta del Este: Posada Aldilá
You can find out more about these establishments by visiting the Montevideo restaurants, Montevideo hotels, and Punta del Este hotels chapters of the guide.
Our top web picks
Not yet made it to Uruguay? When you're done with UruguayNow, our choice of the top 6 internet resources for the country is just a mouse click away. In no particular order, they are:
Ola Uruguay: www.olauruguay.com
Mercopress: http://en.mercopress.com/
Benjamin Gedan's Small State: http://benjamingedan.blogspot.com/
Retired in Uruguay: http://wallyinuruguay.blogspot.com/
Uruguay Natural: www.uruguaynatural.com
Global Property Guide: http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Latin-America/Uruguay
For reviews of these sites, please click here.
UruguayNow in the press
UruguayNow's mix of travel and tourist information on Uruguay, hotel reviews for Montevideo and Punta del Este (coming soon for Colonia), restaurant reviews and tips on excursions, sightseeing and lifestyle in Uruguay has been featured in El País, La República, MercoPress and on Uruguay's Channel 5 TV and other news media in the country. Look out for features on cinema and movie-making, estancia tourism, Uruguay's best beaches and Uruguayan wine (and tips on the best bodegas to visit) in our next edition in October 2010. Journalists interested in finding out more about our Uruguay travel guide project should mail nick@uruguaynow.com.
Welcome to UruguayNow!
UruguayNow is the first dedicated, constantly updated English-language travel guide to the beautiful and varied country of Uruguay – with a particular focus on Montevideo, its capital city. The guide contains a wealth of practical details on how to make the most of your stay in Montevideo, at the country's beach resorts, and in Uruguay's relatively undiscovered interior.
Whether you are a first-time or regular visitor, we hope that you'll find UruguayNow useful, informative and entertaining.
For essential tourist information, reviews of Montevideo's accommodation options and its dining scene – and a guide to the city's sights – please click on the buttons at the top of this page.
For features on unusual and distinctive aspects of life in Uruguay, browse through the selection in the middle of our start page. Whether you are thinking of coming to Uruguay for real estate, antiques, football or the high life in Punta del Este, we have something for you.
The whole guide can be printed out as a pdf file. Simply click on the button on the start page and make your own guide. It's free!
UruguayNow is also dedicated to searching out excellence in the country's offer of hotels and restaurants. That's why, starting with Montevideo, our researchers have visited scores of accommodation and dining options in the city to bring you our choices of Best Hotel, Best-Value Hotel, Best Restaurant and Most Innovative Dining Experience for 2010. And when hotels and restaurants get things wrong, we'll also tell you.
Although the guide is subject to copyright, we are always delighted for brief passages to be quoted in other publications with a clear indication of the source.
If you would like to contact the editorial or advertising sales team at UruguayNow, please send a mail to contact@uruguaynow.com. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, please mail the same address with the word "Newsletter" in the subject field.
Happy reading,
Nick Foster, Publisher, UruguayNow


