Originally Posted by gooseman13

Thanks all for the feedback. Just got back and had a fun time in Lima. We ended up skipping most of the structured tour stuff. The ideas I proposed were mainly from tripadvisor recommendations. I had participated in a slum tour in Mumbai that was very interesting and I believe run by a non-profit that put proceeds back into the community. In any event we skipped it this time.

Sheraton was a good hotel, received good treatment as a gold. As mentioned it's not in the best location, but we mainly took the new Metropolitano BRT that has a station right next to the hotel to get around. It's easy and reasonably quick, but the buses tended to be packed to the gills. For travel away the main bus line we hailed cabs just outside the hotel on the street.