The 43 Best Places to Stay and Do in Argentina

A winery in Las Compuertas where you can arrive by helicopter, which sets the tone. The Durigutti brothers focus on Malbec but also produce natural, organic, and rare cuvées that reward the detour. Cycling the vineyard rows and ending up at a gourmet picnic is a gentler option. The on-site guesthouse, Finca Victoria, has wooden-beamed ceilings and open fires. Ranked 11th on The World's 50 Best Vineyards list.

The winery is built in the shape of a cross, which sounds like an architectural boast until you learn the four wings actually feed wine by gravity into underground cellars beneath the Uco Valley floor. Tastings happen down there, around a two-tonne limestone table pulled from a nearby quarry, with oak barrels and compass roses carved into the stone for company. Salentein holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list, and the Andes looming outside make the whole thing feel slightly unreal.

The Altura Máxima vineyard sits at over 3,000 metres, which means the vines are closer to the clouds than most commercial flights get above sea level. This remote Salta winery, a spot on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list, is fully biodynamic, with an organic farm and orchards feeding the onsite restaurant. Guests choose from four tasting options and can stay at the boutique mountain ranch if descending feels like too much effort.

The wines age in an underground cellar called the Cava del Ángel, where Gregorian chants pipe through the walls on the theory that music helps them along. Whether or not that works, it sets the mood. Bodega Kaiken is a Mendoza winery and tasting experience, ranked on the World's 50 Best Vineyards, with vineyard walks, cellar tours, and Malbec pours framed by an unignorable view of the Andes. Francis Mallmann's open-fire restaurant is on site.

Paul Hobbs, one of the original Opus One winemaking team, built this glass and concrete winery in Luján de Cuyo to put Argentine Malbec on the global map, and it landed at #49 on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list. Small-group tours wind through the vineyards and underground cellar before settling into a curated tasting with food pairings. A second, more immersive experience runs up in the high-altitude Uco Valley, where the landscape does a lot of the convincing.

Classical statues and ornamental fountains line the grounds of the Arizu family's historic Maipú estate, which Luigi Bosca has opened as a wine tourism destination. Guided tours move through some of the winery's oldest vines before landing at a tasting, and the neoclassical mansion makes the whole thing feel less like a winery visit and more like crashing a very elegant garden party where everyone is extremely focused on malbec.

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.

A converted 1930s palace in Recoleta, built by a government minister who came back from France with big ideas and a fondness for Louis XVI excess. The silk curtains and crystal chandeliers are original to the spirit, if not always the fixtures. As Buenos Aires luxury hotels go, this one has the bones to back up the grandeur, with 165 rooms spread across the historic building and a modern wing tucked behind the garden.

Matías Michelini's biodynamic winery sits high in Gualtallary, close enough to the Andes snowline that you half-expect altitude sickness before the first pour. The visit starts in the soil, literally, with a farm walk through vegetable gardens and an herb-drying room, before moving into the cellar for tastings and a seven-course meal at the on-site restaurant. Named a World's 50 Best Vineyards discovery, it's a full-day commitment to the land-and-stars philosophy Michelini takes very seriously.

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.

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.

Every guest gets a personal butler, which sets the tone for this 23-story luxury hotel in Retiro, positioned conveniently close to Puerto Madero, Recoleta, and the Microcentro. The list of past guests, including Bill Clinton and a handful of European royals, suggests the staff has seen it all and remains unflappable. Two pools, clay tennis courts, and a round-the-clock concierge handle whatever the butler cannot.

Each of the seven suites here comes with its own massage table, soaking tub, and a "sensation shower," whatever that turns out to mean for you. It's a boutique luxury hotel in Mendoza wine country built around the name of Argentina's first female winemaker, so the cellar is encyclopedic and the tastings are the real curriculum. Heated deck loungers, fire pits, and wellness butlers round out a stay that leans hard into the fantasy.

A Patagonian estancia-style lodge holding a Michelin 2 Keys distinction, EOLO sits on a sprawling ranch in the La Anita valley, well clear of El Calafate's glacier-tourist scramble. Suites mix antique vanities and plush beds with deep soaking tubs and picture windows over the windswept steppe. The restaurant runs traditional Argentinian fare, which lands well after a day on horseback or hiking near Perito Moreno, though the bathtub-with-Malbec option is apparently competitive.

Dome-shaped cabanas with private plunge pools, sitting on one of the largest wine estates in the world, with the snowcapped Andes as the backdrop. This intimate resort earns a Michelin Key, and the scale of the surroundings does most of the work: a thousand Mendoza wineries within reach, plus horses, mountain bikes, and a chef who handles the asado while you handle the Malbec.

The building is modeled on a Mayan pyramid, which tells you something about the ambition before you've tasted a drop. Catena Zapata is a winery tour and tasting experience in Luján de Cuyo, and the family behind it did more than anyone to put Argentine Malbec on the world map. Tours take you into the barrel room, where you drink straight from the cask alongside charcuterie. Book ahead.

Cafayate sits at one of the highest winemaking elevations on earth, and Piattelli makes the most of the thin mountain air, turning Torrontés and Malbec into wines with a particular intensity you notice on the first sip. This Andean wine resort pairs vineyard visits and tastings with views of the surrounding valley that do most of the selling. A Discovery pick from The 50, it draws visitors who treat the drive through Salta's red-rock landscape as part of the experience.

The concrete eggs and oak barrels are the giveaway: this is a biodynamic winery tour where the family leads you through the farm and cellar themselves, no guide with a laminated card in sight. The concentric vineyards and octagonal Brutalist bodega sit in the Andean desert valleys, and the philosophy, organic and minimal-intervention all the way, shapes everything from the animals roaming the estate to the wine you sip straight from the vessel.

Zorzal sits high in Gualtallary, where the altitude and volcanic soils are the whole point, and the team is happy to let you feel that firsthand. Depending on the season, visitors can prune, harvest, or simply cycle the vineyards before settling in for empanadas and grilled meats on the winery grounds. It's the kind of place where the winemaker might pull up a chair, which is either charming or terrifying depending on how many questions you have.

The metal cupola crowning this stone-and-cement winery catches your eye long before you reach the door, and the building earns the attention. Zuccardi's tours of their Uco Valley estate have a way of making soil types genuinely absorbing, thanks to a research team that treats concrete fermentation vessels as a design problem worth obsessing over. The 50 Discovery recognized it, which tracks for a place that turns a winery visit into something closer to an architecture seminar.

Perched between two Patagonian lakes with the Andes behind it, this grand mountain lodge resort was built in the style of Canada's great railway hotels, all cypress timber, stone fireplaces, and Norman tile roofs. Golf, skiing in July, fishing, rafting, and condor watching keep guests occupied. Standard rooms are comfortable and well-appointed, and nearly every one looks out at water or snow-capped peaks, which does most of the decorating for them.

A concrete-and-glass wine resort poised beside a reflecting lake in the Uco Valley, with Andean peaks as backdrop and organic vegetables growing on the roof above your head. Rooms run from blonde-wood standards with mountain-view daybeds to suites whose terraces seem to float over the water, up to standalone villas with rooftop hot tubs. Horseback rides, a cedar sauna, and late steak dinners fill the gaps between bottles. It holds a Michelin Key.

Tucked into the Uco Valley on 1,500 acres of Andean vineyard, this modern resort holds 22 rustic-chic villas with private decks, stone bathrooms, and views of the mountains that make alarm clocks feel rude. Some have plunge pools or rooftop terraces; the two-bedroom comes with an outdoor clay tub facing the peaks. Francis Mallmann's open-flame restaurant is on-site, gauchos lead the horseback rides, and the infinity pool handles the rest. Getting here takes some doing, which turns out to suit the mood perfectly. The resort holds a Michelin Key.

Getting here means a van to the dock, then three hours by boat across Lago Argentino and up into its glacial arms, mountains rearing on every side. The reward is a remote Patagonian lodge, earning a Michelin Key, where four cottages hold twenty rooms, each anchored by a picture window facing the peaks. Treks to the Upsala glacier or on horseback fill the days; raw wood and warm textures handle the evenings. Everything but the drinks is included, which feels like the right priority.

Horses graze past the communal breakfast table at this working farm turned boutique hotel in the Buenos Aires pampas, which holds a Michelin Key. Guest rooms keep their original wood-beamed ceilings, afternoon tea moves to a sunny patio, and family-style dinners lean on local produce, with an Argentine barbecue if timing is on your side. The artist owner's paintings hang throughout, which gives the whole place a lived-in ease that most rural retreats spend years faking.

An old Argentine estancia an hour north of Córdoba, set in the Sierras Chicas foothills on land that once served as a presidential summer retreat. The luxury resort spreads across historic ranch buildings with brick ceilings, canopied beds, and chandeliers, all looking out over gardens laid out by French landscape architect Charles Thays. Polo fields, a golf course, and several bars and restaurants round out what is, quietly, a very serious amount of property to wander.

A cobalt-blue wooden lodge on the Nahuel Huapi Lake shore, with a private dock and Andean peaks filling every window, Las Balsas is a lakefront resort that leans hard into the fairytale it accidentally became. Stone fireplaces, exposed beams, and vaulted ceilings set the tone indoors, while every room faces the water. The team arranges sailing, fly fishing, and horseback riding, and the heated infinity pool runs year-round, because Patagonia in winter is not for the faint of heart.

A ten-room boutique hotel perched on a cliff above Lake Nahuel Huapi, about twenty minutes outside Bariloche, which means no wandering to town but also no other hotel between you and the water. The design skips the alpine kitsch the region is famous for in favor of wood beams, gray stone, and clean lines. An indoor-outdoor pool lets you swim under Patagonian stars, and each room has a private lake-view terrace. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

The nine-hole golf course sits inside working vineyards, which tells you immediately what kind of person Algodon Wine Estates is designed for. This Mendoza wine-country resort splits between an antique adobe villa and a newer lodge, both with fireplaces in every room and stone-tiled bathrooms stocked with wine-therapy products. The restaurant pulls in outside guests too, pouring Malbec and Bonarda grown on the property alongside an organic regional menu.

Suites here come standard with jacuzzis aimed squarely at Lake Nahuel Huapi, which is one way to start the morning. This intimate lodge sits a short drive outside Bariloche, close enough for a dinner run but far enough that the Patagonian wilderness feels like the whole point. Rooms range from suites with kitchenettes up to full residences with wood-burning stoves. The spa handles whatever the hiking and ski slopes leave behind.

Perched on a hill above Nahuel Huapi lake in Patagonia's ski country, this design hotel looks like someone dropped a futuristic lake lodge into the Andes and decided to go with it. Natural wood and leather fill spaces that manage to feel minimal and cozy at once, with picture windows doing the heavy lifting. Rooms range from forest-facing standards to jacuzzi suites with lake views. Bariloche's famously raucous après-ski is a short drive away.

The nine guest rooms here have hand-painted murals touched up annually by the original artist, which tells you something about how this estancia in the Córdoba hills operates. It's a small, ranch-style Relais & Châteaux property an hour from the city, with fireplaces, wood floors, and views of open grassland and horses. The kitchen runs on an open fire and draws supplies from the farm next door.

The Malbec vines outside your window are the same ones that made what's in your glass at dinner. This small, owner-run wine estate boutique hotel in San Rafael keeps just six rooms across six hectares of vines, olive trees, and irrigation channels that remind you this is a working farm, not a set. Vintage armchairs and botanical prints share space with proper mattresses, breakfast uses local fruit and house-baked bread, and the Andes sit behind the pool doing their thing.

A resort on the Beagle Channel just outside Ushuaia, which puts the Patagonian wilderness directly outside every window and makes the interior design feel beside the point. Rustic materials meet clean lines in the rooms, but guests mostly use the place as a very comfortable base camp for the surrounding national parks and waterways. A full-service spa and serious kitchen are on hand for the nights when the end of the world can wait.