HTL 9 de Julio Buenos Aires

Excelente. Muy bueno departamento y muy bueno café

Loved the industrial vibe and the friendly staff. Make sure you get a street view, I did move rooms after one night did construction works and air conditioning unit location. Central location. Breakfast good 👍 Decent size rooms, with bed on a mezzanine level.

Not happy, travelled 23 hours and put in an unacceptable room... We have booked two rooms, one has a juliet balcony over looking the street and ok... I have been put in a room over looking a mess with over noisy air conditioning feeding other rooms!!! Complained and told to speak to someone else tomorrow!!! So tired and yet can't sleep due to noise!!! Shame as I like the industrial look of the hotel...

We had a very mixed experience at this hotel. The positives: spacious rooms with lofts and bed space for 5 people, nice big towels, breakfast available in your room for an additional fee, and a very central location. Also, the staff provided a recommendation for a nearby pizza restaurant/sports bar (La Alameda) that had the tastiest food we experienced in Argentina. Negatives: Our first room had a broken/unusable toilet and a deeply cracked mirror and we had to move to a different room. It is unclear why the management didn't know the toilet was broken before assigning guests to that room. Did the staff not clean it? Our second room was better, but the building appears to be very old and the decor is pretty much all concrete/industrial in theme. There is no carpet, no pictures on the walls, and the fit and finish of materials in the room was very bad. They seemed to be following a "shabby chic" idea or maybe using all reclaimed materials - even the trash can was severely dented. The bathrooms in both rooms we saw were tiny. The in-room breakfast was very good the first day, but on the second day they had a problem with the elevator and everything was significantly delayed, to the point where we were worried we would not get breakfast before our tour that day. They also did not provide the omelette we had requested. Also, apparently we were supposed to wash all our breakfast dishes in the room each day, but no dish soap or towels were provided until I asked for them. There was no explanation about why. The location was noisy at times because it's right by the Avenue 9 de Julio, one of the biggest roads in Buenas Aires. When we paid for the breakfast, the hotel staff converted the amount we owed from pesos to dollars using the official rate and then charged it, instead of just charging us in pesos and letting the credit card convert it. The result was that we paid almost double what we were expecting, since our credit card usually converted pesos to dollars using a rate similar to the blue rate. The management refused to charge us in pesos, saying it's their policy to convert the rate themselves before charging it. That gives them more money, but it is a very bad deal for foreigners who are visiting their hotel. No other hotel or business in Argentina had this policy, so it was an unfortunate surprise for us. Foreigners should be aware of this policy.

I'll be honest, I was expecting a 4 star hotel as they as advertised and was disappointed to find it had a real Back packers vibe. Location is great near lots of restaurants and transport. Breakfast - served in your room and you have to choose a time to eat and between scrambled eggs or an omelet. First day it arrives on a trolley with an attendant that places your sele toon on the table and the eggs were cold rubbery balls that did not taste like eggs. We chose an apple and an organge with both inedible and very old. Rest of options were meats, sweet pastries and sugary cereal and bread that you toast yourself . The attendant was lovely though. It looked nothing like the pictures they have on the wall or on the internet. We cancelled the rest and just went out to a cafe. You have to then wash your own breakfast dishes for the following day but have to head down to the reception to get detergent and they had no idea why I would Want or need a sink plug. Why not just put it in room? The room is very light as the windows are huge with inadequate covers and there was a constant engine sound from behind and above us. I had to buy a face mask and ear plugs. There are zero amenities as in shower cap etc. there is no room phone so you have to either go down to reception or contact them on WhatsApp. The room could do with a clean including the curtains and there were cracks in the glass windows. These are just some of our issues. I think if you were expecting a two or three star room you would be more than happy I guess but not when they advertise as a four star hotel. We literally walked around all day dreading to go back to the room as the couch was too uncomfortable to sit on. . The best thing about this visit was that due to a pending airline strike we had to leave a day early. The funny thing is on the first day you get a survey about your first day and I was honest. Then they bombard you with messages wanting to have another chance to do better with breakfast - why not just do better from the start. I noted this was a similar theme in their reviews. Anyway as I said if you want a very basic place and don't mind a bit of grime and very very basic breakfast go for it. I was very happy with the airline strike that got us out of there.