Howard Johnson Plaza by Wyndham Buenos Aires Florida Street — Hotel in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

Start with the location. It's on a pedestrian mall (your cab can't get you to the door, but it's not a far walk from the drop off point, and there is parking nearby if you have a car). The included breakfast is very good and efficient. The rooms are large and comfortable. The down local is great, the pedestrian mall means it's quiet, and there are many nearby restaurants for some GREAT steak and wine. Very close to subway stop (don't be afraid, it's easy) and bus (cheap). And the money system sounds weird and scary, but it's not. If you take cash out of the ATM you get the official rate, which is pretty cruddy. But if you BRING U.S. dollars or Euro ($100 bills in excellent condition get the highest rate) you get about double the official rate, which means everything you buy in cash is "half price." You walk down the pedestrian mall (Florida Street, right outside the door of the hotel) and you'll have lots of people saying "cambio, cambio, cambio" ... change, change, change. You nod and agree, they'll walk you to an office around the corner somewhere, and you'll get the "blue market" rate, the "double the government market rate" ... It's very safe, nobody is blowing their reputation to rip you off for a few hundred bucks. You can even pay the Howard Johnson in cash, and they hint at that, to get your hotel half price. This works. The only downside of this hotel is they only have 2 elevators (12 stories) and one was broken half the time, so it can take a while to get up and down. Overall,...

Recently flew in to EZE airport with a connection the following morning from AEP airport. EZE to HJ was about a 40 ride and cab cost $27 if we used USA cash( we did). The hotel is about a 50m walk from the drop off point. The door guy met us and escorted us to the reception. We met with a very pleasant English speaking man who got us squared away right away. We were very grateful we were able to check right in. ||||Our room was fine. Nice towels, beds, pillows - AC worked well. Absolutely no complaints at all.||||We were the first to breakfast the next morning. The hot items were scrambled eggs and something else( a meat I think - cannot really remember). There was a fruit salad and cereal, pastries - kind of the normal thing we seemed to find while in Argentina. ||||It is along a street with plenty of places to do some shopping. There was also a kind of bazaar market about 150m on the right as you go down the street. You would have to walk in to actually see it. We found lots of small souvenirs to take back to family and friends. ||||We found a small cafe to eat as well very nearby.||||We let the reception man know we would need a can in the morning. He made the arrangements. We paid him $12 for the 20 cab ride to the AEP airport before we took it. ||||All in all - we would definitely...

I’m a hotel owner myself and this pains me to say but the service and the “policy” of this place is seriously strange. Since we are multiple families and the paying arrangements were settles with one card holder. They told us that when the rooms are ready, we can get up, like in normal hotels.

They wouldn’t let us to even settle in the rooms because the reservation wasn’t “fully paid”. We told them that the kids are tired and the person who made the reservation was coming from the other side of the city as well to make the rest of the payment. They wouldn’t let us get up to the rooms anyway. Even when we had all made the check in 6 hours before the actual check in time

They made an upgrade to other rooms, but they us all the time waiting in the lobby. They told us that many people are leaving without paying. They wouldn’t let us pay just for the one night, since we had reserved a week. They were going to charge all of that anyway.

This was a really bad experience. Basically they had their “hands tied”. But seemed very agitated and nervous and trying to justify our stay.

The location is great, the guy in the baggage check was nice, it’s “maybe” not enough standards for an international chain of hotels.

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