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The Thinkers' Guide to Staying in Buenos Aires: Luxury Design Hotels

Travel writer Matt Chesterton may know more about the Buenos Aires hotel scene than anyone else on the planet, our words not his. When he isn't hiding from his creditors he is out and about in BA. For the next two weeks he will be busting myths and spouting off about the BA hotel scene. For starters, he has told us that La Cabaña is not the best steakhouse in Argentina, and rather, a national embarrassment, the kind of place that in previous epochs of "our" history would have been firebombed--reserved for Steakhouse Suckers, his words, not ours. This is exactly the kind of unadulterated sentiment you can expect to find here in the next couple of weeks--plus he is hilarious. If you wish to use this time to ask him a burning question you have about BA hotels, shoot it our way, and we will hand deliver it to him. Enjoy.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Douglas Adams

When Alan Faena, Argentinian fashion entrepreneur turned hotelier, announced in the late 1990s that he would be opening BA's first luxury design hotel (the resulting hotel is pictured above); that he would be naming it after himself; and that in addition to being a hotel it would also be a, er, `universe', thousands of people hoped for the worst. As with most men of talent, wealth, good looks and high connections, it is widely assumed that Faena is a bit of an asshole.

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