The 2 Best Luxury Hotels in Cordoba, Argentina

Cordoba, Argentina, spelled as Córdoba in Spanish, doesn’t get an entire lot of international vacationers, although it’s the second-largest metropolis in Argentina. It does have one flight every week from Chile and is lower than 500 miles from Buenos Aires, however few vacationers have town on their to-do listing.

It is a nice mid-sized metropolis to spend a while in although, with one of many oldest universities within the Americas and a big Jesuit monks advanced joined by different Spanish Colonial buildings within the historic heart.

Until just lately we solely had one luxurious lodge in Cordoba featured, the 15-room lodge Azur Real Boutique, in the midst of the motion within the metropolis. One of our correspondents just lately acquired into what is absolutely essentially the most luxurious property round, nevertheless, a sister lodge to the beautiful House of Jasmines Estancia outdoors of Salta.

So listed below are the 2 luxurious lodges in Cordoba to think about, one within the coronary heart of town, one on the outskirts with a number of land.

Estancia El Colibri

As with House of Jasmines, El Colibri is a rustic hacienda became a lodge. It sits on a 250-acre farm with an entire managerie of animals, from polo ponies to quail. Here’s the opening paragraph to what our correspondent skilled when getting there:

The ultimate leg of the journey to Estancia El Colibri took me by means of a bucolic countryside scene of grassy fields and grazing livestock. At the façade of the lodge—which glowed within the afternoon mild and appeared to have been freshly painted for my arrival—employees members greeted me because the lodge’s fluffy brown free-range llama roamed the grounds close by.

You actually gained’t be roughing at this property although: the rooms vary from 516 sq. toes to 1,130 sq. toes and all have fireplaces, bathtubs, hand-painted partitions, and radiant warmth flooring. Most have some kind of outside house.

The meals and wine listed below are well worth the journey too, with an inviting well-stocked wine cellar and La Table restaurant that has made the lodge a part of the Relais & Chateaux group since 2016. The present chef labored at a restaurant in France (the place the homeowners are from) at a 3-star Michelin restaurant and your meals right here might be memorable ones, together with breakfast.

There’s additionally a spa on web site providing a jetted tub, a dry sauna, a moist sauna, and a therapy room for massages. You can chill out on the outside pool or get pleasure from actions like connoisseur cooking courses, croquet, horseback driving, and bicycling across the property.

This distinctive lodge is a splurge, with charges beginning at $590 per evening, however most visitors discover it to be well worth the journey into the countryside for a couple of days.

See our latest detailed overview of Estancia El Colibri in Cordoba, Argentina.

Azur Real Hotel Boutique Cordoba

Housed in a constructing greater than a century previous that was initially a moderately utilitarian college, this boutique lodge emerged from a five-year renovation challenge by the homeowners to develop into a trendy small lodge. Classroom numbers are nonetheless above the doorway for most of the rooms, whereas others are duplexes added later to the highest ground.

From right here you possibly can stroll to many of the sights within the heart of town and it’s a brief cab trip to nearly anyplace else you want to go. When you come, you’ll chill out in a room outfitted with robes and slippers, capsule coffee machines, and within the duplexes, large whirlpool tubs. Or head as much as the roof.

The lodge’s rooftop open-air lounge is snug and alluring and the hotter temperatures in Córdoba imply that visitors can benefit from the house just about year-round. The roof deck additionally has a small plunge pool and loads of lounging furnishings, together with day beds. This is a wonderful place to benefit from the lodge’s nightly visitor joyful hour with regional salami, cheese, and wine.

After our overview went up, administration added a spa space to the basement degree that has whirlpools lit by candlelight and you’ll schedule a therapeutic massage or different therapy.

Rates are $200 to $480 relying on the time of 12 months, demand, and which room choice you select. See our full overview of Azur Real Hotel Boutique in Cordoba.

 

Article by Timothy

Timothy Scott is the founder and editor of Luxury Latin America and has been masking the area as a journey journalist because the mid-2000s. He has visited every nation we cowl a number of instances and relies in a UNESCO World Heritage metropolis in central Mexico, the place he owns a house. See contact info right here.