Unlike Aspen Colorado, Pucón has something different to offer. Pucón is one of the hottest tourist destination in all of southern Chile, both for Chileans and foreigners. Pucón is nestled against the Villarrica volcano, on the shores of lake Villarrica. It has the feel of an undiscovered Aspen Colorado, with fly fishing, skiing, and rafting at the core tourist activities. Unlike Aspen Colorado, Pucón has something different to offer.

Around Pucón southern Chile you will find many pubs, bars, and nightclubs. The summers in Southern Chile are the best time for catching the local nightlife, and many are only open in the summer months. In the winter, the bars are much more quiet, and are great places to relax and talk . Still, weekends and holidays, tend to bring the clubs alive Pucón.  Normally, the weekend runs from Thursday night to Saturday night around Pucón.  Sundays are traditionally very quiet. One of the better deals are the "shopperias", which are lower end bars with cheap deals on very large national brand beers such as Escudo.

 

Pucón southern Chile is known for the 5 star hotels to as well as the no star hostel.  Around Pucón, we would recommend locations that use the word “hotel” in there advertising for those with money to spend. Expect the word “hotel” to be associated with better quality. In the middle to budget level, we would recommend “Pensions”, “Hostels”, and “Hospedaje”.  In terms of Hostels ( Hostals ), do not expect to find Hostels in the sense of the Europe backpacker sorts of places with dormitory and bars. There are a few around the Pucón area, but the bar will be downtown most likly.

In Pucón, almost all restaurants around Pucon are on the main avenue Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins. There are many cheap and good places to eat. Almost all have very good deals during the off-season in southern Chile. There is also a very wide selection of high-end restaurants around Pucon with the best foods that can be found in Chile and internationaly.  This is the All Southern Chile's current listing for places to east around the Pucon area.