Home Hotel Buenos AiresvsAlvear Palace Hotel
Both properties are recommended by travel writers. Overall, Alvear Palace Hotel ranks significantly higher than Home Hotel Buenos Aires. Alvear Palace Hotel scores 92 with endorsements from 16 reviews including BlackBook, Condé Nast Traveler and Hideaway Report.
Home Hotel Buenos Aires Show All Reviews
Honduras 5860, Palermo Hollywood, Buenos Aires 1414, Argentina
From $112/night
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Free Breakfast
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
Concierge
"Aimed at the hip, partying crowd increasingly drawn to Buenos Aires' late-night pleasures, Home was the first hotel to open in fashionable Palermo Hollywood."
Insight Guides
"Palermo Viejo's first boutique hotel, Home blazed a trail that many have followed but few have matched."
Fodor's
"Run by Argentinean Patricia O'Shea and her British husband, Tom Rixton, a well-known music producer, Home Hotel oozes coolness and class." Full review
DK Eyewitness
"Since opening in 2005, this boutique property has won a number of accolades in designer magazines and become a favorite with both local celebrities and visiting rock stars."
Rough Guide
"Owned and run by a British record producer and his Irish–Argentine wife, this masterpiece of modern architecture and hotel design is simply incredible."
Time Out
"It's not, truth be told, very homey at Home - unless, that is, your house looks out onto a garden complete with an azure pool." Full review
Star Service
"Arrivals are greeted with a guidebook of local sights and cafes, which many guests find to complement their own guidebooks nicely." Full review
BlackBook
"Gorgeous touches, jacuzzi in-room, sunny roof decks, verdant gardens, a nifty pool for a dip, floor-to-celing windows and lots of soothing wood tones."
Afar Magazine
"Strategically located within blocks of much of the city’s nightlife, Home has become something of a base for those coming to the city looking to indulge in it." Full review
Mr & Mrs Smith
"Ivy-lined and eco-designed, the Home Hotel in residential Buenos Aires is an open-air take on hipster chic." Full review
Alvear Palace Hotel Show All Reviews
Av. Alvear 1891, Buenos Aires 1129AAA, Argentina
From $257/night
- Bar/Lounge
- Hot Tub
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
Concierge
"At the Alvear Palace—widely considered the top hotel in South America—it's still possible to feel as rich, as they used to say, as an Argentine."
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Be sure to have a tipple in the magnificent Lobby Bar.
Fodor's
"The Alvear Palace has been the standard-bearer for upscale sophistication since 1932, and is undoubtedly the shining star of Buenos Aires' hotel offerings." Full review
Lonely Planet
"Ask any local to name the classiest, most traditional hotel in Buenos Aires, and they’ll surely name the Alvear Palace." Full review
DK Eyewitness
"The Alvear Palace... is widely regarded as the best hotel in Buenos Aires."
Rough Guide
"Once the choice of wealthy landowners and now the favourite of politicians and royalty, the Alvear is still BA’s luxury hotel par excellence, despite the trendy new upstarts."
Time Out
"The Alvear, which fills half a block of BA's most exclusive street, Avenida Alvear, reeks of old-school class, and it's perhaps the grandest hotel in all of the capital." Full review
Star Service
"A long-standing social pillar in this tony neighborhood of smart shops and embassies, this establishment continues as the choice for visiting heads of state." Full review
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Request one of these units or one of the corner rooms on any floor, especially those that face Alvear Avenue and Ayacucho Street.
BlackBook
"Privately-owned luxury hotel in Recoleta where the focus is more on regal afternoon high tea than minimal design and IPod docks."
Forbes Travel Guide
4 Stars
"Alvear Palace Hotel is the gilded grand dame of the ritzy Recoleta district in Buenos Aires." Full review
Frommer's
"Among the world's top hotels, this gilded classical confection of marble and bronze combines Empire- and Louis XV-style furniture with exquisite French decorative arts." Full review