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Patagonia in style!

The Best in Luxury Lodges and Hotels in Patagonia

Experience the stunning beauty of Patagonia as the afternoon sun highlights the aged blue ice of a glacier with a brillant yet sublime golden layer of light, and cerulean waters run through rugged fjords carved from the earth millennia ago. The immense Patagonian silence is what you’ll remember; it’s like no place else. The hotel and lodges listed here are the creme de la creme in accommodations within Patagonia. Call 1-800-330-8820 to book your Patagonia vacation, today!

EL CASCO Art Hotel
Bariloche, Argentina

Located in one of the most beautiful spots in Patagonia, on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi, EL CASCO ART HOTEL blends with the landscape, with its fine architecture, amenities, the latest technology and it has a collection of 300 paintings and sculptures of Argentine art. Each of the thirty-three rooms has splendid views of the lake, which is only 40 metres away. Guests can choose to sail on the Nahuel Huapi or go fishing on board the Caleu-Caleu, a wooden 15-metres long boat. Located at the 11.5 Km of Bustillo Avenue, 15 minutes from the city of Bariloche, as well as 15 minutes from the most important Ski resort, Cerro Catedral, EL CASCO Art Hotel offers a unique opportunity to experience art as well as nature.

 

Estancia El Colibri
Santa Catalina, Argentina

El Colibri is a house of exceptional charm. Each of the 9 suites and bedrooms has its own personal charm, refined details and welcoming open fire. Facing the Polo fields, the clubhouse is the ideal place to share an Asado (barbecue) or a drink after a good polo game. Horseback riding, trekking, mountain biking, adventure track, Gauchos and farm works are some of the activities you will enjoy. Dove and pigeon hunting, golf, fishing, bird watching, go-cart racing and Jesuits sites visits are some of the nearby activities that make the Cordoba region famous. Estancia El Colibri is a 45 minute drive from the Cordoba International Airport.

 

Explora en Patagonia
Patagonia, Chile

 

Explora is an enterprise founded to encourage a new attitude towards travel, in remote regions of the Southern tip of South America. Explora en Patagonia, Hotel Salto Chico, is located in the incredibly rugged and beautiful Torres del Paine National Park of Chile's Patagonia region. The weather is mild due to its close proximity to the sea, with many sunny days a year. With unusually-shaped mountains, glaciers, lakes and waterfalls, plus unique flora and fauna, Torres del Paine is considered one of the most beautiful places in the world. Outstanding features of the park include an astonishingly rugged mountain range of 10,000 feet peaks, and the Cuernos del Paine (Horns of Paine) reaching 6,890 feet. The park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978.

 

Hosteria Los Notros
El Calafate, Argentina

 

The Hostería Los Notros is an exclusive and intimate lodge that enjoys a privileged location in the extreme south of the Santa Cruz province, the most southern province of Argentina, which takes part of the mythical region known as Patagonia. The vast region is full of beautiful lakes and rivers, eternal snowed mountains, cliffs and majestic fiords, native woods and spectacular millennial glaciers. The interior of Los Notros is warm and welcoming with broad pane windows in its restaurant, living room and bedrooms offering outstanding vistas of the glacier and surrounding mountain peaks. Service is exemplary and its restaurant serves delicious fresh local cuisine.

 

Llao Llao Hotel & Resort
San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

Located on a small hill between lakes Nahuel Huapi and Moreno, we find our magnificent Hotel, surrounded with old cypress, coigue and arrayan woods and framed by mounts López, Capilla and the majestic Tronador, It was built by architect Alejandro Bustillo in 1940 and fully renewed in 1993. Canadian-style with Norman roof tiles and visible cypress logs blending with the region’s green stone, the Llao Llao Hotel & Resort, Golf - Spa is in harmony with the inspiring natural framework of the area, thus becoming an attraction that should not be missed when visiting Argentina.

LOS SAUCES Casas Patagonicas
El Calafate, Argentina

LOS SAUCES Casas Patagonicas recreates the hospitable and refined spirit of the Patagonian farms of the beginning of the last century. LOS SAUCES follows the architectural style typical of the region which combines native features with European influences in a natural garden of willows and rose hips. The Hotel individual Suites have their own name, décor and style and are distributed in Patagonian Houses with a private living-room in each House, a site with a great view of the Calafate Mount, where nature is lived and breathed, only 3 blocks from the center of El Calafate.

 

REMOTA
Puerto Natales, Chile

Hotel Remota in Puerto Natales, Chile, nearly the very end of the earth, is one of the most exotic hotels on the continent. Puerto Natales is far removed from the rest of the world with no cable TV, no phone, no internet.. The only place beyond Puerto Natales is Antarctica. It’s the center of Chilean Patagonia and 250 kilometers from Punta Arenas. Each of the 72 rooms has floor to ceiling windows and private baths. The hotel's architecture is quite unusual; from the outside it is simply stunning. An experiment in modernism that takes root in local architecture.