Kosher on the Trip

Belmond Hotel das Cataratas is the only hotel inside the Iguazu national park on the Brazilian side. Standard hotel service there doesn't include kosher meals — but ours does.

Through our kosher catering partner, we bring a dedicated mashgiach, ingredients sourced from São Paulo, and a kitchen team into the hotel for the duration of your stay. Before you arrive, we work out a menu with you. Meals are prepared fresh on-site, to the highest standard of kashrut, in coordination with the Belmond kitchen staff.

This is what allows our clients to stay at the only hotel inside the park and eat at that level.

Through our kosher chef in Rio, Shabbat meals and kosher catering are arranged directly at the Fairmont Rio Copacabana — Friday night, Shabbat lunch, and Saturday evening, prepared on-site and ready when you arrive. The Fairmont sits at the southern end of Copacabana beach; Chabad Beit Lubavitch (Rua Maracanaú 11, Rabbi Ilan Stiefelmann) is at the northern end — about a 30-minute walk along the beachfront. Many of our guests walk to Chabad for Friday night davening and return to the Fairmont for Shabbat dinner.

Buenos Aires has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the strongest kosher infrastructure of the trip. Our guests stay at the Alvear Icon Hotel & Residences in Puerto Madero — the only hotel in Argentina with two in-house kosher restaurants: Glitter (deluxe glatt kosher, supervised by Rav Yosef Chehebar) and Milk & Co (kosher dairy and sushi bar). Kosher breakfast available at the hotel. The Once and Abasto kosher restaurant cluster is a short ride away. For a community shul, Chabad-Lubavitch Puerto Madero (Blvd. Azucena Villaflor 770, C1107 CABA) is a 2-minute walk from the hotel.