Visionaries
Visionaries
Mary Moses, Michael Moldauer & Michel Seiner
Hotel Founder-Andenia Boutique Hotel
Sacred Valley, Peru
Between Cusco and Machu Picchu, surrounded by gardens and the quiet rhythm of the Sacred Valley, Andenia was created by three founders whose lives had already moved through travel, gastronomy and hospitality. Mary Moses brought the instinct of a traveller and operator. Michael Moldauer and Michel Seiner brought the discipline of restaurants, food halls and Peruvian gastronomy. Together, they created a hotel not around spectacle, but around slowness, comfort and the feeling of being held by place.
The Story of Mary Moses, Michael Moldauer & Michel Seiner
In the Sacred Valley of Peru stands a small garden hotel created by three founders who believed travel should give people time to feel where they are.
Origin
Mary, Michael and Michel came together through travel, gastronomy and entrepreneurship. Before Andenia, their shared work centred on Mercado 28 in Lima, where food, hospitality and local culture became the foundation for what came next.
Former Life
Mary came from tourism, finance and business administration. Michael trained in hospitality and food and beverage. Michel came through Acurio Restaurantes, building a career around gastronomy, entrepreneurship and the culture of bringing people together.
turning point
After Mercado 28, the three began imagining what their combined experience could become as a hotel. In the Sacred Valley, they found a site with gardens, quiet and atmosphere. Andenia began as a response to that place.
Obsession
Their obsession was slowing people down. Peru can easily become a checklist of trains, ruins, markets and transfers. Andenia was created as a counterpoint, giving guests a quieter way to experience the Sacred Valley.
The Detail
No televisions. Private terraces. Local materials. Earth tones. Local ingredients. Eucalyptus in the shower. Hot water bottles in the rooms. A stone pool circuit set among the gardens. Each detail brings guests closer to the valley.
WHAT THEY PRESERVED
They preserved the gardens, the human scale of the site and its quiet relationship with the Sacred Valley. Rather than overpower the landscape, Andenia was shaped to let the mountains, local materials and slower rhythm remain central.
“The idea was never to create another stop between Cusco and Machu Picchu. It was to create a place where the journey could finally slow down, where the gardens, the mountains and the quiet of the Sacred Valley could become the experience itself.”
Mary Moses, Michael Moldauer and Michel Seiner brought together three different worlds: tourism, gastronomy and hospitality. After working together through Mercado 28 in Lima, they began imagining a hotel that could offer a slower way of experiencing Peru. Andenia became that pause between Cusco and Machu Picchu, where the gardens, mountain air and quiet rhythm of the Sacred Valley are given space to remain the main presence.
The Story of Andenia Boutique Hotel
What began as three different careers in tourism, gastronomy and hospitality became a small garden hotel shaped by a shared belief that the Sacred Valley should be experienced slowly.
Mary Moses, Michael Moldauer and Michel Seiner first worked together through Mercado 28 in Lima. When they later found the site in the Sacred Valley, its gardens, mountain setting and quiet changed the direction of their work. They imagined a hotel where guests could slow down and experience Peru beyond the itinerary.
Andenia became a place shaped by stillness rather than spectacle. Rooms open onto private terraces, local ingredients guide the kitchen, and the gardens remain central to the experience. Between Cusco and Machu Picchu, the hotel gives travellers space to feel the valley instead of simply passing through it in a rush.
Andenia was never designed to compete with the Sacred Valley. It was designed as a quieter way into it.
Mary Moses, Michael Moldauer and Michel Seiner created Andenia as a place of pause between Cusco and Machu Picchu. The hotel does not ask guests to rush through Peru, but to stay long enough to feel the gardens, the terraces, the mountain air and the slower rhythm of the valley around them. It is this quietness that defines the property: not a hotel built to stand apart from the landscape, but one shaped to let the Sacred Valley remain the main presence.
