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Argentine Patagonia hotels
Choosing the right hotel in Patagonia can be a minefield. Service is sometimes shockingly poor and prices exorbitant, and even the most exclusive properties may be marred by mediocre food and an overdeveloped taste for flowery bedspreads. Many visitors to rural Patagonia opt to stay in estancias, ranches built by 19th-century European immigrants. A large number of these ranches remain in the hands of their founding families, who help offset maintenance costs by accepting paying guests. Only a handful of estancias and country lodges get it right, though. Choose wisely, and you'll enjoy an unparalleled view of Patagonian culture, authentic country cuisine, and a chance to cast for monster trout and salmon or gallop into the sunset across the mythical steppe. Urban centers, too, offer a broadening selection of new and newly refurbished hotels, ranging from boutique properties to revamped classics. Go to our Chilean Patagonia guide to view Patagonia hotels across the border, and see the Fact Sheet for overall orientation.
In 1917, when Italian pioneer Primo Capraro erected a wooden lodge in the wilderness of north-shore Lake Nahuel Huapi, the only guests brave enough to sail from...more
There's nothing particularly Patagonian about El Casco Art Hotel, despite its privileged lakefront location near tourist hub Bariloche. This place sits beneath...more
Set atop the same fossil-striped cliffs that fascinated Charles Darwin 170 years ago, El Pedral Lodge boasts its own stretch of coastline, complete with an...more
A dusty Patagonian steppe town fronting Lake Argentina, El Calafate survives entirely on visitors to the Perito Moreno glacier, 50 miles to the west. Observing...more
The village of El Chaltén is one of Argentina's hiking capitals, located at the northern end of Los Glaciares National Park and at the base of Patagonia's...more
El Calafate is a dusty Patagonian steppe town on Lake Argentina, close to the three-mile-wide Perito Moreno glacier, one of 13 that flow into Argentina's...more
Situated on the fir-lined banks of Lake Nahuel Huapi's north shore, Villa La Angostura is unashamedly twee, its main street lined with wooden boardwalks and...more
Set on beech-carpeted slopes two miles above Ushuaia, Las Hayas affords sweeping views of the city, the Beagle Channel, and the mysterious peaks of Chile's Isla...more
Anticipate "a lush landscape"—Nahuel Huapi National Park—and "fabulous, joy-inducing vistas" of mountain and lakes. Constructed with cypress, hemlock,...more
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