HotelChatter - Tag: Buenos Aires Hotel Reviews http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-08-20T22:26:08Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Buenos%20Aires%20Hotel%20Reviews Buenos Aires: The Faena Hotel Gets Flooded http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/18/143750/63 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/cornell_faena.png" class="imgborder"><p>The "ball-grabbing" (in the words of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/13/20202/5299/hotels/The+Thinkers%27+Guide+to+Staying+in+Buenos+Aires%3A+Luxury+Design+Hotels">Matt Chesterton</a>) <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Faena+Hotel+and+Universe/local/214"><b>Faena Hotel + Universe</b></a> experienced a little turmoil in the cosmos over the weekend.<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/12182007/gossip/pagesix/flood_dampens_argie_visit_334633.htm">Page Six</a> reports that rocker Chris Cornell, formerly of Audioslave, and his wife were staying at the upscale hotel when their hotel room was flooded. What?? How does a hotel room far away from a beach get flooded? Here's how: <blockquote><p>A pal of Cornell's said, "after performing in front of a sold-out 20,000-capacity arena*, Chris returned to his room and was relaxing with Vicky when the walls started trembling, like in an earthquake. Then, Chris smelled something burning, and suddenly, the entire entrance of the hallway collapsed and gallons of freezing cold water entered juliana 2007-12-18T14:54:14-05:00 Buenos Aires: Hot Wheels and Post-Midnight Parties at Hilton Buenos Aires on NYE http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/6/55147/1359 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hiltonbanye.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>If your dream New Year's Eve celebrations involve a hotel which is hip (or crazy) enough to have a few rooms decked out in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/6/27/154838/795/hotels/Hilton+Buenos+Aires+Introduces+Barbie+and+Hot+Wheels-Themed+Rooms+">Barbie and Hot Wheels</a> themes, then heading south to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Buenos+Aires/local/224"><b>Hilton Buenos Aires</b></a> is the plan for you come December 31.</p><p>There's a big event on at the Buenos Aires Hilton if you stay for New Year's Eve and book their special package. You'll get a room facing the lobby, with NYE dinner served on the balcony area so you can watch the lobby show.</p><p>After dinner, you're invited to the Buen Ayre ballroom for a post-midnight party, Buenos Aires style (that means hard!). The package also includes private car pick up and amandak 2007-12-06T13:10:01-05:00 Buenos Aires: 248 Finisterra Gets A Nod, Barely, from the NY Times http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/9/12350/89464

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 Caņitas, yet another Palermo sub-barrio.

Las Caņitas 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.]]> juliana 2007-07-09T12:36:22-05:00 Hilton Buenos Aires Introduces Barbie and Hot Wheels-Themed Rooms http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/6/27/154838/795 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hilton_barbie_hotwheels.png" class="imgborder"/><p>Spoiled little kids everywhere, rejoice: you too can be Barbie herself or a Hot Wheels driver for a night. <p> This summer, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+Buenos+Aires/local/224"><b>Hilton Buenos Aires</b></a> is bringing back its Barbie hotel room (first debuted in 2004), decked out in floor-to-ceiling pink and virtually every Barbie-themed novelty item Mattel currently manufactures. Little guests even arrive at the room baller-style in a Barbie car and can opt to spend some time in the spa getting a Princess Makeover. Pass the purple eyeshadow, please! <p> For the teeny car fans, they've also launched the world's first Hot Wheels room, outfitted with racing tracks, a race car bed (obvi), video games and walkie talkies. <p> Hey parents: either the walkie-talkies Jenna 2007-06-27T16:09:15-05:00 Buenos Aires: Yo Quiero Dormir: Quiet hotels in Buenos Aires http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/29/17546/8791 <![CDATA[<p><b>[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.]</b><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/headphones_BA.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p> 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. <p> 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 MattyC 2007-03-30T09:20:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/