There is no doubt that renting Buenos Aires Apartments for vacation or a business stopover is much better value than hotel suites.’

Buenos Aires Apartments – Verses – Hotel Suites. 
 

BuenosAiresStay.com ‘tells it like it is’ and discusses the pluses and minuses associated with vacation apartment rental verses hotels and conclude that apartment rental is not for everyone, but during the coming months, economic uncertainty may change that view.

The Buenos Aires apartments industry has grown substantially over the last five years. At last count, we found nearly 147, 000 Google listings advertising or related to the search phrase ‘rent vacation apartments Buenos Aires’ and over 400 websites that directly compete against Buenos Aires Stay.

The vacation apartment industry is generally very professional and service is better than 2002 when we first rented apartments in Buenos Aires and found it cheap, but a real headache. Without regulation, market forces and competition has meant that both the quality of apartments and the companies that sell them have improved enormously.

Always research your agency of choice on the internet and read their terms and conditions – VERY CAREFULLY – make sure that rents are final, and when you check-in, should the apartment not be as advertised the agency state clearly that get your money back or another apartment. Again, if something should go wrong during your stay – does your agent have a published complaints procedure? All these points are just as import as the Buenos Aires apartments you might select.

From time to time, every company has the odd problem and vacation apartments are not unlike our own homes and not without the odd hitch – how agents deal with those unforeseen occurrences, sorts the good from the bad. It is important to add that third party service provision, anything the property owner or agents cannot control, is unreliable and time consuming to resolve, so apartments are not for those who demand immediate resolutions or people who expect to move immediately an insect pays them a visit, the internet fails, or they suffer a power cut on their street. If you want hotel style care – go to a hotel and pay for the privilege.

Staying in a Buenos Aires hotel
We all know what hotels provide so we will not dwell long in this subject. Generally, when you buy a hotel room, you are buying brand familiarity that is well constructed, well decorated, a cleanly furnished ‘clone’ with familiar rules and the security that if something goes wrong, the hotel will fix it immediately or move you to another room. Your room is cleaned everyday and linens and towels replaced and as if magic, and all is well again when you come home to change or climb into bed –bliss? Not for everyone, some of us find hotels ‘same-ole’ and value our home comforts - access to their favourite food direct from the fridge, home cooked meals, anonymity and privacy.

Personal and property security is generally good and you benefit from room service, internet, mini-bar, sometimes a health club, sometimes a pool, and a concierge. Most important to many people in the current economic climate is that you can use the old ‘plastic’ to pay from your dream holiday and face the music later. Tried and tested, but not without their many problems, not least the cost being $400 to $700 a week for the basic room with a bathroom, the hotel is fast losing ground in Buenos Aires and apartments are the vacationers choice, number one choice for longer term Buenos Aires Stays. If you are prepared to foot the bill, some apartments have all the services of a first class hotel and more – cook, servants, chauffer, and bodyguard – it is all available you just have to ask. What is for sure, you will have change from renting a comparable hotel suite at the Four Seasons Buenos Aires.

Hotel reservation in the best and safest districts of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Apartments
The negatives that detract from the offer of a home-from-home, at a fraction of the cost of a hotel send those who do not have the pioneering give it a go spirit running for cover. All over the internet, you can find complaints some valid, others blown out of all proportion - keep an open mind and going back to our first points – read agencies terms and conditions, look for cast iron pros that offer you some comfort and a published complaints procedure.