The Best Hotels in Buenos Aires, by the Record
The best hotels in Buenos Aires, by the professional record: Forbes Travel Guide and 50 Best have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Four Seasons Buenos Aires comes out on top.
Alvear Palace Hotel and Faena Hotel Buenos Aires hold the next two places. Forbes Travel Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with 50 Best next.
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Galloping horse sculptures flank the entrance, and the polo theme carries right through to the leather-furnished Pony Line Lounge, which well-heeled Recoleta regulars treat as a personal living room. This Forbes Four Star hotel splits its 165 rooms between a modern tower and a Belle Époque mansion, the two connected through an outdoor pool and terrace. It holds a certain conviction that luxury and local character belong together, and the renovation made that argument in full.
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Crystal chandeliers, white-gloved bilingual butlers, and Louis XVI furniture so gilded you feel underdressed just reading the menu: the Alvear Palace is Recoleta's grand old palace hotel, and it leans into every bit of that. The lobby bar is a long-running theater for Argentine high society. A Forbes Four Star property, it also has a rooftop pool and bar with city views, a spa, and the Alvear Grill for when you'd like someone to fuss over you at dinner.
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The doormen wear top hats and long-tailed coats, which tells you everything about the register this luxury hotel is pitching. Inside, Philippe Starck went heavy on crimson and black marble, and the result feels more like a nightclub that happens to have rooms than the other way around. A Forbes Four Star property in Puerto Madero, it draws the kind of guests who don't need to ask where the pool bar is because someone already texted them.
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