Home Hotel

  • Location: City
    Restaurants: In walking distance
    Palermo’s famous boutique shops: In walking distance
    Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes: 6km (15 mins by car)
  • Ministro Pistarini Airport (EZE): 33km (55 mins by car)
    Aeroparque Jorge Newberry (AEP): 7km (20 mins by car)
    Airport transfer available on request
    Good public transport
    Paid parking

From Home Hotel it is an easy walk to all the great restaurants and hip bars of Palermo Hollywood.
You’ll enjoy their outdoor pool with a beautiful wooden deck and surrounded by a lush fern garden.
The service is absolutely outstanding, the staff really makes this boutique hotel a friendly home.

Despite its hip location, you’ll have to take a taxi to the major sights as they are a bit further away.

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An introduction to Home Hotel

How would you describe Home Hotel in a nutshell?

You’ll have found your home away from home when arriving at Home Hotel in hip Palermo Hollywood in Buenos Aires. It’s a trendy boutique hotel with a relaxing atmosphere and super attentive staff. You’ll like the French vintage wallpaper and retro Scandinavian-style furniture in their 16 guestrooms and 4 suites. They have a beautiful wild garden with a swimming pool, an all-natural spa. Breakfast is included, their kitchen makes delicious tapas and they even have a cocktail bar. Or you could also venture out and explore the neighboring cool bars and fusion eateries that the district is famous for.

Please tell us a bit about how Home Hotel got started.

At the time, my husband was a producer in the music industry, but with music downloads becoming more popular, there wasn’t much left to do for a producer anymore. Musicians now aren’t spending a lot of time in the studio, they tour instead. Our future prospects didn’t look good.

Our friends would come visit us in Palermo and they were always looking for hotels when they visited. We were trying to find a place where everyone could stay but there wasn’t a suitable hotel in the area. Argentina in 2002 was so cheap. The properties had come down in price, which is not that common in Argentina, so we decided to do a hotel.

We were the first boutique hotel to open with all the services. Now there are dozens of boutique hotels, but at the time it was a very new idea. We were sort of the pioneers of it in this area.

I love the interior of Home Hotel. How would you describe it?

Home Hotel is modern with a hint of retro. We worked with two architects, and for two years while the hotel was being built, we went to a lot of flea markets to look for specific things. We also designed some of the furniture. Three months before opening, we put it all together.

One of the things we insisted upon was working with vintage wallpaper. It was 2003, when wallpaper wasn’t as fashionable as it is today. Every single room has vintage wallpaper — anything from 1923 onward. We’ve got French, German, 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. We had been collecting them for years and they’re all original.

What would you describe to be the spirit of Home Hotel?

It’s sort of a hip place without the attitude. Sometimes you get these hotels that are super cool, but you don’t feel very well looked after. When a place is fashionable, there’s usually an attitude. It’s hard to find somewhere nice where you can walk in wearing a pair of jeans and a T-shirt and find the staff friendly (unless you’re somebody important or famous).

How would you like your vacation guests to remember their stay?

The big thing with Home Hotel, that also has to do with the name, is that it’s a hotel with personality and with a certain energy. It doesn’t look like an architect’s rendering. That’s a mistake that many other hotels make. Tom and I are really passionate about architecture and design, so maybe other owners don’t have that. There are a lot of hotels in the area now, but they don’t have any personality. They’re expensive, but you don’t see that personal touch.

We offer some of the things that remind you of home — you feel safe and warm. It’s not cold. Everything is done with clean lines and green and lots of light. That’s the difference to other hotels, and most people get it because they choose to stay here.

Tell me a bit about ‘Green Home’ please.

Home Hotel is proud to have pioneered ‘eco-design’ and many other environmentally-friendly business practices to the Buenos Aires hotel scene. This ranges from avoiding unnecessary waste and using reusable packaging where possible to extensive energy saving measures throughout the hotel and donating out of use items to local hospitals and non-profit organisations.

All Home staff receive training about running an environmentally-conscious business and we inspect the factories and offices of our suppliers, such as laundry services, to ensure a good level of cleanliness and that the workers are treated well.

We also play an active role in our community and support our local food shops when we put together our natural restaurant menu.

Please tell us a bit about Buenos Aires, its culture and people.

It’s one of the largest cities in the world. There are many different sides to Buenos Aires. The city center is a place where it’s crazy during the day. It’s quite dirty, but very charming as well because of the architecture. Although, at night, it’s not a good place to be.

But you can enjoy Buenos Aires amidst all the craziness. It’s a city of walking and hanging out, watching people in cafés. It’s not a city where you do your checklist.

And you also offer different tours around Buenos Aires?

You can do a running tour, a bicycle tour, a bus tour or a tour in a vintage car. There’s also a huge scene of street art — graffiti — here and we have some friends who do a tour called Graffitimundo where you get to meet the artists.

To you personally, what has been most rewarding about running Home Hotel?

We went on blind faith that it was going to work, call it naïve, but we never thought it would fail. So it’s rewarding that we accomplished this.

We have had a lot of national attention with the Wallpaper Award for best new hotel in 2007. That was a big reward for us, as Wallpaper is sort of the Bible to us. When it came out in the ‘90s, it was very revolutionary at the time. That award was a big pat on the back. We’ve had a lot of press recognition from Condé Nast Traveler and all those sort of magazines. We’ve won several other awards since too.

It’s an extremely hard business because you’re playing with people’s dreams — their holidays — so everything has to be perfect. If you mess up once, you mess up someone’s holiday. But at the end of the day, the thing that really still touches us is when somebody really appreciates the design and details and lets us know, because we spend a lot of time on detail.

The pool
Garden suite
Garden suite
Poolside suite
Poolside suite
Bar and restaurant
Lobby
Suite
The Loft
The Loft
The other Loft
The other Loft
Standard room
Standard Plus room
Superior room - City view
Superior room - Garden view
Zen patio
Garden
The pool

Home Hotel rooms & rates

We’ve got 20 rooms at Home Hotel and we offer a room for everyone. Home Hotel is modern with a hint of retro, it’s sort of a hip place without the attitude. The big thing with Home Hotel, that also has to do with the name, is that it’s a hotel with personality and with a certain energy.

We worked with two architects, and for two years while the hotel was being built, we went to a lot of flea markets to look for specific things. We also designed some of the furniture. Three months before opening, we put it all together.

One of the things we insisted upon was working with vintage wallpaper. It was 2003, when wallpaper wasn’t as fashionable as it is today. Every single room has vintage wallpaper — anything from 1923 onward. We’ve got French, German, 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. We had been collecting them for years and they’re all original.

  • Standard room for 2 people / 19 m²
    170 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 1 Shower room (ensuite)
    • Air conditioning

    The three Standard rooms overlook the interior courtyard, with queen size bed (no twin possible), super comfy mattress, walk-in shower, 26” LCD TV with cable, minibar, laptop friendly safe, individually controlled AC and central heating, and free WiFi.

  • Standard Plus room for 2 people / 23 m²
    170 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 1 Bathroom (ensuite)
    • Air conditioning

    The three bright and airy Standard Plus rooms are located on floors 1, 2 and 3. They face the interior courtyard, come with a king, queen or twin bed (according to availability), with a super comfy mattress, desk, walk in shower or bathtub, 26” LCD TV with cable, minibar, laptop friendly safe, flower filled window box, individually controlled AC and central heating.

  • Superior room - City view for 2 people / 23 m²
    185 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 1 Bathroom (ensuite)
    • 1 Baby cot (on req.)
    • Air conditioning

    Our four Superior city view rooms on the first and second floors face the tree-lined street and offer double glazed windows and black out curtains, perfect for sleeping late.

    They come with a king, queen or twin bed (according to availability), with a super comfy mattress, desk, window bench with Saarinen tulip table, walk in shower, 26” LCD TV with cable, minibar, laptop friendly safe, flower filled window box, individually controlled AC, central heating and free WiFi.

  • Superior room - Garden view for 2 people / 24 m²
    250 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 1 Bathroom (ensuite)
    • 1 Baby cot (on req.)
    • Air conditioning

    Located at the back of the hotel the four Superior garden view rooms on the first and second floors overlook our lush backyard featuring native plants, flowers and trees.

    They come with a king, queen or twin bed (according to availability), with a super comfy mattress, desk, window bench with Saarinen tulip table, bathtub, 26” LCD TV with cable, minibar, laptop friendly safe, flower filled window box, individually controlled AC, central heating, and free WiFi.

  • Suite for 2 people / 45 m²
    340 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 1 Bathroom (ensuite)
    • 1 Baby cot (on req.)
    • Balcony
    • Air conditioning

    Our two Suites are located on the third floor at either end of the building. They offer ample space for stylish lounging on 50’s vintage furniture, a round double Jacuzzi or sipping a cocktail under the stars on your own balcony.

    They come with king size or twin bed, a super comfy mattress, walk-in shower, double Jacuzzi, balcony with seats & plants, 26” LCD TV with cable, minibar, Laptop friendly safe, individually controlled AC and central heating, black out blinds, bespoke bathroom products and free WiFi.

  • Garden suite for 2 people / 98 m²
    390 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 1 Bathroom (ensuite)
    • 1 Living room
    • 1 Baby cot (on req.)
    • Terrace
    • Air conditioning

    Tucked away at the back of the garden with a private entrance and shallow pool sits Home Hotel’s award winning Garden suite. This suite offers floor to ceiling glass windows that let in the beautiful Buenos Aires light. A separate lounge area with Florence Knoll sofas, mid-century furniture and a spiral staircase leading to its own rooftop terrace complete with loungers, an outdoor shower and table with parasol for al-fresco dining. The Garden suite is your own private oasis in the city.

    King size bed - Jacuzzi bath with shower - remote controlled blinds & black out - shallow pool - work desk - Florence Knoll sofas - 40” Smart TV - 32” LCD - DVD player - music system - minibar - laptop friendly safe - air conditioning - central heating - in-room breakfast free from delivery charge - free WiFi.

  • Poolside suite for 2 people / 75 m²
    390 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 1 Bathroom (ensuite)
    • 1 Baby cot (on req.)
    • Terrace
    • Fireplace
    • Air conditioning

    Suite overlooking the garden and pool, with king size or twin bed, Jacuzzi, remote controlled curtains & black outs, floor to ceiling windows, private terrace with sun loungers & table, outdoor wood fire place, original 1926 French wallpaper, original 1968 George Nelson desk & chair, Florence Knoll Sofa, vintage Scandinavian furniture, 2 LCD TVs, DVD player, sound system, iPod dock alarm clock & radio, minibar, laptop friendly safe, individually controlled AC and central heating, free WiFi, private garden entrance and in-room breakfast free from delivery charge.

    Please note: this room is on a 1st floor (2nd American) and accessed by stairs.

  • The Loft for 2-4 people / 98 m²
    300 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 2 Bathrooms (ensuite)
    • 1 Living room
    • 1 Dining room
    • 1 Kitchen
    • 1 Sofabed (on req.)
    • 1 Baby cot (on req.)
    • Terrace
    • Air conditioning

    Best of both worlds: your very own Loft apartment with all the benefits of staying at Home Hotel. On ground Floor: Open plan space with 4m high ceilings, fully equipped kitchen & dining area, living area with double sofa bed, 28¨TV in sitting room/2nd bedroom with DVD, Stereo, patio with BBQ & dining al-fresco, 1 bathroom with shower room, 4m high sliding panels turn living area into a second bedroom.

    Upper Floor: Bedroom with queen-size bed, 1 en-suite bathroom with Jacuzzi, 21" screen TV, decked terrace with plants & deck chairs, laptop size safety deposit box, WiFi, central heating and AC, twice-daily maid service.

    Please note: The entrance to the Loft apartments is beside the entrance to the main building.

  • The other Loft for 2 people / 82 m²
    300 / night
    • 1 Double bedroom
    • 1 Bathroom (ensuite)
    • 1 Shower room (ensuite)
    • 1 Living room
    • 1 Dining room
    • 1 Kitchen
    • 1 Baby cot (on req.)
    • Terrace
    • Air conditioning

    The ’homiest’ of all, The other Loft is a turn of the century apartment renovated by Home Hotel’s owners into a stylish modern loft. This was their home for the first few years of the hotel with some of Tom and Patricia’s art still on the walls. The other Loft is perfect for couples looking to feel like locals in Buenos Aires with all the services of Home Hotel at their fingertips. It features a fully equipped kitchen, a patio with an Argentine BBQ, outdoor sitting for 4 people, and a small terrace off the en-suite bathroom. The Loft is located next to hotel's main building with its separate street entrance.

    King size bed - en–suite bathroom with Jacuzzi bath - guest bathroom - fully equipped kitchen & dining area - 28” LCD TV in sitting room - DVD player - music system - large fridge - air conditioning - central heating - free WiFi - lap-top friendly safe - room service.

Included in the rates
Rates include WiFi, breakfast, daily housekeeping, turndown service, concierge service, 24-hour front desk and use of sauna during spa hours.
Optional extras
Services on request: spa treatments, dry cleaning, and babysitting.
Extra charges
Prices don’t include 21% VAT. Non-residents don’t pay 21% VAT. Guest must present passport + immigration receipt (provided at airport). Failure to provide this, 21% VAT must be added to your quote. The rebate applies only to lodging, not to other items under Argentine law (transfers, restaurant, bar, minibar, laundry, spa or any other service).
Children & Extra beds
Children are welcome and complimentary cots for babies under 2 years are available in Superior rooms, Suites or Lofts. Extra beds in Loft are: 13+ years: U$D 70 + 21% VAT per night. 3-12 years: U$D 40 + 21% VAT per night.
Minimum stay
2 - 5 nights (check calendar for dates)
Check in time
after 14:00
Check out time
before 11:00

Facilities & services

  • Air conditioning
  • Children welcome
  • Maid service
  • Swimming pool
  • WiFi
  • Bar
  • Concierge service
  • Garden
  • Babysitting on request
  • Sauna
  • Restaurant
  • TV
  • Central heating
  • Room service
  • Music system
  • Movies/DVDs
  • Laundry service
  • Hair dryer
  • Spa

24 hour concierge service, twice-a-day maid service as well as having our own bar & restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a small spa with some of the best massage therapists in the city. Our lush garden feels like an oasis in the city.

Things to do in Buenos Aires

  • Art / Culture
  • Shopping / Markets
  • Night life
  • Massages / Treatments

You have to visit a fútbol match and go to Recoletta cemetery. And you have to do a tango show, of course. As for the not so touristy things, you can get shoes made from amazing cobblers who make them all by hand. You can go to a small barber shop in Caminito, an area no tourist usually goes to. You can sit in a chair there that dates from the 1900s and have a real experience.

There are a lot of ways to see the city and you can have many different experiences in Buenos Aires that aren’t all based in the same area. We have taken the opinions of our guests and put it into a Home guide, a little pocket book that we write. We pour our knowledge of what’s good into it from bars, restaurants, favorite places, shops, etc.

Home Hotel reviews

5 of 5 stars
Verfied Welcome Beyond stay
5 - it is a very pleasant place to stay. And the area is perfect!
Christina T.
stayed at Home Hotel in December 2018

The location of Home Hotel

Home Hotel is located in Palermo Hollywood, a very hip and trendy area that grew organically when the artists and creative people moved here. It’s got a very big push when two TV channels moved in, radios and TV studios opened, hence the Hollywood name. It still retains ’barrio’ feel yet mixing the old and new, the traditional with the cutting edge. It has become a gastronomic hub with some of the city’s best restaurants including four of the Latin America Best Restaurants, all within walking distance from Home Hotel.

When is the best time to visit Buenos Aires?

Each season has its charm in Buenos Aires. To me, any city is good in spring or autumn. Buenos Aires is particularly beautiful in the spring. The trees are all in full bloom with colorful flowers. Carlos Thays was a French architect who designed a lot of the Palermo area and planted all these amazing trees along wide avenues. Summers are pretty hot and quite humid, many people from Germany or England come during our summer to escape the horrible winters. They enjoy being by the pool and love the heat while we all complain about how hot it is!