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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.
The Spanish-owned NH Hoteles has become the hippest chain in town, favored by tourists and business visitors for style and location. Its highlight property is...more
This low-key European-style accommodation benefits from a superb location: Set at the intersection of various parks (including Plaza Francia and Jardín...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
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