Monasterio Hotel boutique — Hotel in Municipio de San Carlos de Bariloche

I will try not to jump around too much, but there is a lot to cover. If you are staying in Bariloche for more than a few days, it would behoove you to rent a car. The wait for a taxi can be as long as 30 miin. From anywhere in town. We made the mistake of not reading closely and missed the fact that the hotel doesn't have a restaurant. They offer toast, cereal, eggs, ham, cheese, and a few pastries as well as yogurt and orange juice, but you are on your own for everything else.||In my opinion, a junior suite shouldn't just mean more square footage. The towels were tiny, thin, and akin to sandpaper. There was no mattress pad, housekeeping didn't make the bed properly so any movement on the bed caused the bottom sheet to move out of place. By morning half of the mattress was exposed. The comforter was also slightly stained. The bathtub/shower was only partially enclosed resulting in a wet disaster every time one showered. Our room was at the top of the stairs and the entire front wall was glass. There are (stained) curtains with holes in them and there is nothing to buffer the sound from outside as people walk past. The other walls of the rooms are paper thin. We had the joy of hosting neighbors with crying toddlers 2 nights in a row.||The good news? The pool is delightful, covered and heated. The staff are pleasant and helpful. The views is nothing short of spectacular. I realize all of this may seem picky but for what we paid compared to other nearby establishments, I had expectations...

I was looking forward to spending some days in this hotel but it was disappointing. We were in Argentina for 3 weeks and spend about two of them in different hotels. This was the hotel that I paid the most and liked the least. The rooms were ok. Yes, they were spacious but not practical. Not that many places to hang stuff in the bathroom, temperature control was the same for all the apartment (two stories), so no real option to adjust each individual room temperature. A road was like right next to the window, so every now or then you heard a car. I was hesitant to leave the window open thinking that someone or something could have gotten into the room. ||The hotel is very open space, so to reach the room you basically had to walk up about three/four floors worth of stairs. This was not practical after spending all day and night walking around the city.||Only hotel that asked me to sign a waiver for losing the TV remote control... apparently it is a big issue here or something....||||Finally, the road to the hotel is not paved, still dirt roads and nothing really within walking distance... so taxi is the way to go in this place.||If you plan to stay in the hotel and enjoy the Spa/pool amenities please stay here. If you need a place to crash and shower, get something within the...

The view from the rooms is nice, seeing the lake and surrounding mountains - but the view isn't very open (trees block it). ||The income in the hotel is nice and the service at the reception too. ||The rooms are big. Not very well organised (2 pers room but only 1 chair, only 1 glas in the bathroom, ...). But they have a safe in the room. ||My regret is mostly this: for 80 euro/night they could have a nice breakfast, not a poor substitute for it. Breakfast for me is a very important dinner and I know in these countries breakfast is often verry minimal - but not when you book such an expensive hotel. ||The least they could do (especially in a "spa resort" as such) is to have fresh juice, an expresso machine and offer some egg's or warm dish for breakfast. ||||The pool looks nice and the bath in the room is a "jet massage bath". So if you don't care about breakfast this might be a good spot for you. If you want to hike/trek/be active during the day and thus need a decent breakfast you'd better look somehwere else or have breakfast outside of the hotel (but then it becomes expensive,...