The Best Hotels Near Pony Line, by the Record
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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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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.
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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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Colonia del Sacramento is a town that has looked more or less the same for centuries, so a sleek, apartment-style boutique hotel with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the Río de la Plata is a mild shock to the system. Every room, even the smallest, comes with a kitchenette and a balcony. The crowd that crosses from Buenos Aires by ferry tends to stay longer than planned, which is probably the point.
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Six bungalows perch right over the Rio de la Plata, which tells you most of what you need to know about this resort outside Carmelo, Uruguay. It's a small-scale place, 24 suites and 20 freestanding bungalows set deep in forest, with decor that pulls from China and Indonesia rather than the usual luxury playbook. A golf course sits on the premises, and there's a full spa, tennis, pool, and boats for the river when you remember it's there.