HotelChatter - Tag: Buenos Aires Hotel Guide

Buenos Aires: You Want To Put Caviar Where?

ced138 — 2007-10-08T09:45:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/Caviar.jpg" class="imgborder"> In the efforts of keeping up with luxury spa treatments using rich or unusual ingredients, the spa at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Buenos+Aires/local/224">Hilton Buenos Aires</a> has introduced the Luxury Caviar Spa treatment. Supposedly, the tiny eggs contain some kind of skin-firming properties. The three-hour treatment includes a welcome tea/drink, steam bath, whirlpool with "ozone therapy" (whatever that is), the facial treatment with caviar, followed by a regenerating mask with nacre (an amino-acid rich substance found in oyster shells), a body massage with even more caviar and silk, and a lymphatic massage (to help the nodes move their fluids along). The whole event is followed by a snack and relaxation room time. The over-the-top series of indulgences seems like a

Buenos Aires: 248 Finisterra Gets A Nod, Barely, from the NY Times

juliana — 2007-07-09T12:36:22-05:00

A while back we mentioned the 248 Finisterra Hotel in our Thinker's Guide to Staying in Buenos Aires written by the brave Matt Chesterton.

Back then Matt wrote:

Finisterra is actually a fine looking place, even if everything has been ordered from Boutique Fittings Ltd. The main draw is the location, in Las Ca�itas, yet another Palermo sub-barrio.

Las Ca�itas has thrived lately as a neighborhood for nightclubs, shops, sushi restaurants and bars for the "young and beautiful" so says Ian Mount of the New York Times, who reviewed the hotel for the paper's "Check In, Check Out" column.

Buenos Aires: Yo Quiero Dormir: Quiet hotels in Buenos Aires

MattyC — 2007-03-30T09:20:01-05:00

<![CDATA[[Ed. Note: We have gotten a few questions about finding a hotel in Buenos Aires that are not-so-noisy, so naturally we hit up our resident Argentina hotel expert, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/uid:6171">Matt Chesterton</a>, for his suggestions. Enjoy.]<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/headphones_BA.jpg" class="imgborder"/> BA stands for Buenos Aires. It could equally well stand for Bad Acoustics. This is one of the world's noisiest cities. Several street intersections make the global top 20 of eardrum-shattering junctions. On a recent trip to London we were stunned by how quiet the city centre was. That's how loud BA is. Several readers have asked us to recommend some 'quiet hotels' in BA. It's a good question to ask and a tricky one to answer. For one thing, you can't

Buenos Aires: Coldplay Has the Nerve to Be 'Normal Human Being-Like' at the Faena Hotel

MattyC — 2007-03-07T15:03:53-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6171/chrismartin.jpg" class="imgborder"/>Here's a theory for which we have no evidence. The rise in expensively tricked-out design hotels is in direct correlation to the disinclination of contemporary rock stars to smash, trash, and throw entertainment systems through the windows of said hotels.In the early 1970s hotels had to insure themselves against fire, flood and Acts of Keith Moon. That's all gone now, along with kaftans with metallic trim and Minimoogs. A pity. But wait! Perhaps all is not lost. We have received exclusive reports of hair-raising, hellraising behaviour by Coldplay during their recent stay at Buenos Aires' <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Faena+Hotel+++Universe/local/214">Faena Hotel + Universe</a> (they played three gigs in BA two weeks ago). The information comes from Florencia Vrljicak, the Faena's

Buenos Aires: The Thinker's Guide to Buenos Aires, Redux: Reader Finds Castelar Hotel 'Tattered, Not Torn'

juliana — 2007-02-26T14:08:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/castelar_one.jpg" class="imgborder">For the past two weeks, we've been spotlighting some of the best hotels Buenos Aires has to offer courtesy of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/uid:6171">Matt Chesterton</a>. Like all good things, the mini-Buenos Aires guide had come to an end. But this morning we found a little present in our inbox---a reader's own hotel review.In last week's "Thinkers' Guide to Buenos Aires", Matt profiled the "glamorous, rude, fading and grand" <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Castelar+Hotel/local/268">Castelar Hotel</a>, and more specifically his wedding night there where the helpful staff did not discriminate against him for projectile vomiting on the suite's walnut paneling.He is not alone--in his high regard for the hotel that is. As for the vomiting on wedding night, we won't go there. Anyways, one reader