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The Buenos Aires hotel scene—from bijou boutique properties and revamped classics to towering altars and urban design—has a well-earned reputation for being edgy, chic, and affordable. Style-conscious boutique hotels have sprouted around the cobbled streets of the food-and-fashion quarter of Palermo Viejo. Rack rates have edged upwards in recent years, but for under $200 it's still possible to find a double room in a casa chorizo, one of Buenos Aires' distinctive one-story townhouses, decorated in 19th-century style with aged pinotea wood floors and jasmine-filled gardens.
Worth exploring, too, is San Telmo, a somewhat grittier area whose antique stores, no-frills parrilla steakhouses, and darkly attractive bars draw many foreign visitors. Far-sighted hoteliers have turned some of the neighborhood's once-grandiose mansions into award-winning design hotels.
Heads of state and business travelers should look to the opulence of leafy Recoleta, where the city's most august hotels ride Argentina's roller-coaster fortunes with sublime indifference. Puerto Madero, the city's renovated docklands, offers a scattering of glitzier palaces to contemporary design, while chain hotels are largely found in traffic-filled Microcentro, a stone's throw from the Casa Rosada and Plaza de Mayo.
Housed in a 1912 French classical villa in the capital's embassy-studded Recoleta district, this ten-room property underwent a three-year renovation. The result...more
At the Alvear Palace—widely considered the top hotel in South America—it's still possible to feel as rich, as they used to say, as an Argentine. The...more
Bourgeois and bohemian, rebel and conservative.…The various slogans of this chic little oasis are improbably taken from a book by the American political...more
Amid prestigious apartment buildings and museums and art galleries, CasaSur is aimed at those seeking the cachet and convenience of a Recoleta address at an...more
This impossibly cute little red "guest house" on a colorful and quiet side street in Palermo Soho is a great (and inexpensive) find. The minimalist...more
San Telmo was once the city's wealthiest district, with row after row of neocolonial townhouses and mansions. An 1871 yellow-fever epidemic sent the barrio into...more
Aimed at low-profile travelers with impeccable taste, Costa Petit is a design-minded boutique hotel in Buenos Aires' Palermo Soho district. The two rooms and...more
"It's not just a hotel," the people who run this monstrous property in chic Puerto Madero Este (a.k.a. the Tribeca of B.A.) will tell you, "it's a universe."...more
Lyrical, innovative design is common in the many small hotels in the fashionable quarter of Palermo, yet many overlook the basics. The Fierro swims against that...more
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