Argentina Hotel Tips by swesn

Pros :
- Not much else in this price range available in this bleak border town
- Just two blocks from the main Avenida Cordoba
- Breakfast is provided

Cons :
- Very old and dingy

Dorms : 10 Arg Peso (2002)


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Phone: 03757-42529
Address: Fray Luis Beltran 116
Directions: From Av Cordoba, look out for Av Belgrano. Turn into it and walk two blocks.

Pros :
- Excellent, excellent location for a relatively cheap hostel (by Buenos Aires standards). It is merely two blocks from Calle Lavalle, a busy pedestrian mall with EVERYTHING available and three blocks from Calle Florida, the other busy pedestrian mall with A LOT MORE OF EVERYTHING available.
- Living room has a large flat-screen TV set and a huge selection of English movies for your selection.
- Beds are very comfortable and toilets clean. The fan is very powerful.
- Super friendly staff
- Lockers are available

Cons :
- Breakfast is a pathetic little ‘alfajor’ – a yo-yo-sized sweet biscuit thingie with dulce de leche in between and dunked in white chocolate.
- Kitchen is too tiny to be put to good use.

Dorms : 21.50 Arg Peso if you stay more than 3 nights. (2003)


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Phone: 54-11-43220994
Address: Viamonte 887
Directions: On Viamonte, between Esmeralda and Suipacha. Two blocks parallel to Lavalle.
Website: www.hostelclub.com
Other Contact: hostelclub@hostelclub.com

Pros :
- Friendly staff
- Moderate-sized kitchen with an 'island' in the centre with lots of burners and stoves so you do not need to wait around for a free stove to cook your pot of spaghetti. Having to face everyone else while doing your cooking, it is a great place to show off your cooking skills (or steal something from someone's pan while he is not looking).
- Large, interactive dining area
- Some cultural activities organised

Cons :
- A little bit far from the centre, about 10 blocks to walk but there are shops and cafes along the way, so the walk is never dull
- Dorms felt a tad small, but it was generally comfortable


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Address: Jujuy 947

Pros :
- Fantastic location, merely four or five blocks away from the Salta city centre and the bus terminal. Convenient to head off in either directions.
- Not so noisy as staying in the city centre
- Excellent ambience
- Great kitchen facilities
- TV is in the kitchen / dining area... you can watch TV while you eat
- There is a music room with CDs for you to pick
- Guide-books available for you to borrow
- Ping-pong table
- Roof-top with BBQ pits for asados, but of course
- Super-friendly and fun staff
- Rooms and beds are very, very clean and comfortable
- Lockers are available
- There is a ice-cream parlour or heladeria right on the same block
- A NORTE supermarket branch is just a block and a half away.

Cons :
- None at all! My favourite hostel in Argentina.

A recommendation : Take a room at the basement as those near the kitchen / dining room will be noisy.

Dorms : 9 Arg Pesos (2003)


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Phone: (0387) 4216544
Address: Cordoba 361

Pros :
- Rooms are in separate cosy rustic houses with its own kitchen and toilet facilities, so it is like living at home and you get to know your house-mates really well.
- Dining / Breakfast room has SPECTACULAR view of the surrounding mountains along Quebrada de Humahuaca
- Kitchen is huge and toilet is really pretty and clean
- Nice courtyard to sun yourself and admire the mountains
- Beds are super comfortable
- Owners are TERRIFIC!
- Tranquil and you feel like you are right there with nature
- Lockers are available

Cons :
- Quite a hike away, that's why in turn, you get a fantastic view

Dorms : 12 Arg Pesos (2003)


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Phone: (0388) 4955197
Address: San Martin s/n
Website: www.tilcarajujuy.com.ar/malka
Other Contact: malka_tilcara@cootepal.com.ar

Pros :
- Wonderful wonderful wonderful ambience and friendly staff
- Lockers are available
- Great kitchen facilities, with MICROWAVE OVEN (quite rare but so convenient!)
- BBQ pit at the roof-top for the much-needed asados
- TV / Living room is very comfortable
- Homely dining area and backyard
- Very near to the centre, Plaza de la Independencia

Cons :
- Can be noisy if your room faces the backyard as the hostelites stay up all night, chatting and playing music

I suggest you take a room on the second floor.

Dorms : 12 Arg Peso (2003)


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Phone: (0261) 420 2846
Address: Calle Rivadavia 640
Directions: Rivadavia, between 25 de Mayo and Peru
Website: rodrigomedina300@yahoo.com.ar

Pros :
- The ONLY CHEAP one available at the Puente del Inca
- Provides multiple blankets, very much needed at night
- If you have a tent, you may camp on the grounds for a fee
- Surprisingly, there was hot water

Cons :
- Very grotty but this is a 'refuge', so tolerate
- Bed-sheets are wafer-thin, terribly old
- Need to pay a charge for using the kitchen facilities
- Toilet is a LONG hike away. Look out for the switch in the day-light, for if you try to visit it at night, it is pitch-dark and you would wish you knew where the switch was... (how I wish!)

Dorm : 12 Arg Peso (2002)


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Phone: (0261) 155631664
Directions: To the left as you walk towards the Puente del Inca

Pros :
- Very near the Bus Station, just one block away on Campana del Desierto.
- Good kitchen facilities and nice rustic dining room tables and benches
- Lockers are available

Cons :
- Rooms are like cells, there is barely enough room to walk
- Showers are unisex and the curtains seemed a little see-through

Dorms : 10 Arg Pesos (2003)


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Phone: 491423 / 491139
Address: Campana del Desierto 1050 or 161
Other Contact: hostellagoargentino@cotecal.com.

Pros :
- FANTASTIC view of Ushuaia as it is higher on the hill and there is a HUGE window at the dining area
- Cosy place with friendly staff
- Good kitchen facilities
- Beds have reading lights
- Lockers are available

Cons :
- Some rooms are in the attic, very creaky floorboards
- My bed was super comfortable, slept like a baby every night but someone complained his bed was awful. Depends on your luck, I supposed.

Dorms : 14 Arg Peso (2002)


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Phone: 54-2901-437291
Address: Gob Paz 1437
Website: ushuaia@hostels.org.ar
Other Contact: torrealsur@impsat1.com.ar