Hotel Etoile, Buenos Aires

Even though the structure is poorly kept and the carpet on the rooms have a bad odor the location is amazing. Good breakfast buffet.

The hotel seemed a value. The lower pricing reflects the age.....quite some time since remodeling. The pool and spa is great...and a nice sun deck. Great location for tourists.

Big rooms, nice breakfast. Amazing gym, cool pool, nice spa, great neighborhood, close to sights. This is the only place I'm staying when I come back! Family loved it.

Checked in late at night not knowing anything about hotel or neighborhood. Wow. Pleasantly surprised. Upgraded to HUGE rooms. Breakfast was great. Spent 2 days by the great pool. Fantastic view of most famous sight in BA, Recoletta cemetary. 100 yards away, view from roof was a postcard. Gym was one of the best I've seen all over the world for a hotel. Full spa. Hotel is just a bit dated, and they are doing lots of construction(no noise), but facilities are outstanding.

For a weekend trip to Buenos Aires in which I wanted to get as much sightseeing in as possible, the Hotel Etoile was ideally located. It's literally across a small plaza from the entrance to the Recoleta cemetery, so I was able to go check it out while I was waiting for my room to be available. The staff are friendly and helpful. The breakfast is a nice buffet with hot and cold foods (although they had the exact same spread both days, making me think it may be the same every day--might get boring if you're staying a long time). The room appears to have been decorated in the 1980s, judging by the bathroom fixtures and carpet, but it was clean and the bed was comfortable. There was an odd column smack in the middle of the room, which meant that I couldn't sit on the lounge chair and watch TV, and I would have liked to have a chair on the balcony, but otherwise, it was fine. New flat screen TV has international cable channels with lots of options if you want to lie in bed and watch TV. Swimming pool was a little bit too warm for lap swimming but quite pleasant for watching airplanes take off from the domestic airport (great view from the 14th floor pool!). If you want to swim, but sure to bring a swim cap to cover your hair.