Boutique Apartments San Telmo

“Great Neighborhood and Location. Quick service”

We stayed 8 nights in Babel Botanico, from Dec. 28 to Jan. 4. We just fell in love with this neighborhood, central to all we wanted to see. Some days we had no plan, just walk out the door. Cafes on every corner, fun restaurants, and of course the Botanical Garden, free. It's close to major trans... more

We stayed 8 nights in Babel Botanico, from Dec. 28 to Jan. 4. We just fell in love with this neighborhood, central to all we wanted to see. Some days we had no plan, just walk out the door. Cafes on every corner, fun restaurants, and of course the Botanical Garden, free. It's close to major transportation lines, Las Heras and Santa Fe, to get us to Recoleta or Centro. The apartment itself had all we needed at a good price, and Edgar quickly answered all questions through Whatsapp, including booking transportation to and from the airport. We paid about $55 a night.

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“OK but could be oh so much better with just a little love & attention!”

Just spent a week here and am perplexed as to why this hotel is not way better than it is - as it could so easily be much better! The good points are: 1. The rooms are huge. We had a room on the 5th floor facing the car park but that was no problem for us. It was quiet and we could leave the w... more

Just spent a week here and am perplexed as to why this hotel is not way better than it is - as it could so easily be much better! The good points are: 1. The rooms are huge. We had a room on the 5th floor facing the car park but that was no problem for us. It was quiet and we could leave the window open all night without interruption. 2. The location was fabulous - despite some warnings about the next block we found if you avoided that part, were sensible and took normal precautions, we were brilliantly situated for the up and coming old part of San Thelmo where there were great drinking, eating and shopping places. There is a great indoor market selling everything (including great sit down food stalls); museums, market and street tango dancing. Great place to start your walk to other areas of the city 3. The 24 hour reception staff were excellent - helpful and spoke great English BUT there were a few things that really perplexed me: 4. The bed linen and towels were grey; they were marked and the towels had rips/ were threadbare and had no fresh smell. The curtains were badly marked on the bottom and the soft furnishings needed a good clean. The handrail on the bathroom wall in the bath had rusty nails and there was no shower slip mat - it was very dangerous getting in to the bath to have a shower. The toiletries were in sachets and were very poor quality. Chips in the cast iron bath had been painted over with white gloss paint and the sealant around the shower screen looked like it had been applied by a three year old.This is easily remedied guys - come on! 5. The breakfast was pretty poor. There was no breakfast buffet. Instead you are brought a plate with three bread type croissants (don't go thinking these are anything like the French ones - they aren't!) and a slice of highly processed brown & white bread. There are a couple of sachets of butter/jam together with a glass of orange squash and something described as coffee served from a flask to you. It tasted of rusty water and was I think extremely cheap chicory type coffee substitute. Yuk! If you wanted another (??) you had to go in to the kitchen to ask. There were scrambled eggs that came in a childs plastic bowl but were disgusting - they were clearly made from dried egg powder. I asked if there was any fruit and was offered a banana or apple - not both. I ended up buying fruit and yoghurt myself and cartons of coffee! The breakfast areas unloved - there were plastic bags of rubbish there the whole time we stayed. 5. The sun deck needed real improvements, The loungers were falling apart and the pool was very cloudy even after it had been attended to by the attendant. The terrace need a really good clean. This really could be a brilliant hotel with some decent maintenance; linens ; improved standards of cleaning and better quality breakfast offering and toiletries. However, at the moment its only just scraping average in my book. There are better looking hotels in the area that I would visit instead

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