Hotel Castelar Santa Fe — Hotel in Santa Fe

For: 1. great central location, 2. it's half the price of the Holiday Inn and Los Silos. 3, the place has history, former President Raul Alfonsín (no doubt other more shady types too) stayed there during the constitutional convention at the start of 90s. 4. the room was reasonably clean.||||Against: 1. the hotel hasn't seen a lick of paint for decades or any other kind of maintenance either. The wood in the frame of our room's door was , quite literally, falling off in rotten pieces, 2. the wifi doesn't work, or at least it didn't in our room. the staff shrugged on being informed of this. 3. the breakfast is horrible, mean and scant. 4. if you're a light sleeper, be warned, there are odd gurgling sounds from the plumbing and the groan and shudder of some kind of heating/energy system in the building that will keep you awake.5. there is no secure storage in the rooms and the "hotel safe" doesn't work at the weekends so you leave your laptop in the room and hope...

We were in Santa Fe for a conference and this was one of the hotels we could choose... It is very old (what is fine) and has not been renovated in a long time (what is less charming). Everything in the room looks woren out. It is ok clean but you always feel that these old stuff around you cannot be hygienic. The receptionist does not speak a word english, so practice your Spanish! Breakfast is ok the restaurant is not recommendable, go somewhere else. It seemed to me that Santa Fe in general is a bit behind the times. This hotel badly needs some...

This hotel is a Santa Fe classic. It is cheaper than most hotels in Santa Fe and the location is great. It opened 70 years ago . . and it has never been updated! So you get all the grandeur of 1940 but without the conforts of modern life. The architecture is great and very well kept but, with the exception of beds (you do get a king size bed in rooms) not a single tile has been replaced. Again, understand, nothing is broken but the tiles, even the faucetts are from the 40s! The boiler resonates throughout the...