Buenos Aires can offer the traveller truly splendid hotels. This important big city has a big selection of all types of lodgings. From luxurious Apartment and five star international chain hotels, newly built or based on old palaces, to simple one star lodgings that offer up all their comforts to the visitor.

Only in the last three years, more than 20 four and five star hotels have been built in Buenos Aires in order to satisfy the demands of over two million visitors per year that spend more than 2 billion dollars during their stay.

The visitor will find most of these in the centre of the city and in the main neighbourhoods around it. Whichever you decide on, you will always find rapid and immediate access to the most important cultural, commercial and recreational centres.

An important part of this offer is made up of the "estancias", local rural ranches that have been conveniently accommodated to receive visitors, where one can stay for one or several days, or just visit, to rest, to practice outdoor sports, and to enjoy a good meal of "asado" barbecued meat or other typical dishes, all in a bucolic atmosphere.

The tourist season in Buenos Aires is the whole year round. Many visitors come on business, but each year more and more people arrive to spend their vacations and take advantage of their visit to go shopping, not to mention spending some of their time to taste the city's extraordinary cuisine and partake of its generous cultural offer.

If possible, the traveller should not lose the opportunity to know and experiment the sensation of walking down a hundred avenues, with their mix of modernity and history in order to confirm the impression that this big city offers at first sight to its visitors.

Description: it has a magnificent ranch house of Italian style built in 1890 by General Pablo Ricchieri, who according to tradition may have buried his saddle in it. It owes its name to the most typical tree in the area: the ombu, with an ample canopy and aged roots.

The estancia has nine recycled and spacious rooms with private bathrooms (six doubles and three triples), and large windows that allow natural light cheering the interior and jutting out the suite from that period it houses. There is an authentic potbellied stove beside the central heating in every room.

It has a living room with satellite TV and video, billiard, chess and cards tables, not to mention the ping pong table in the lateral gallery along with a soccer table. It keeps an important collection of weapons as well as elements of gaucho decoration, which can be admired on a tour across its interiors.

Travellers can enjoy an excellent roast with the renowned worldwide Argentine beefs in its comfortable and cosy dining room, or the international or criollo cuisine, accompanied by wines of the country. Lunch is served in the shade of the leafy ombu in the summer, in full contact with nature. It offers excellent and personalised attention.

Activities: guided horseback rides, rides in old carriages, bike rides, hikes, swimming pool with solarium, soccer field and volleyball court, living room and playroom.