Ten nights · Three properties

Where you'll be staying

Three four-star hotels, each chosen for its position rather than its lobby: a design hotel in the middle of the best neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, a seafront tower on the Golfo Nuevo, and a lodge on the edge of the jungle twenty minutes from the falls. Breakfast is included at all three.

Pleno Palermo Soho · photograph courtesy of the hotel

The full picture

Nights, rooms and times

Hotel bookings by date, with room configuration and check-in times
Hotel	City	In	Out	Nights	Rooms	Check-in / out
Pleno Palermo Soho	Buenos Aires	17 Oct	21 Oct	4	2 × Twin Balcony Junior 2 × Double Balcony Junior	15:00 / 12:00
Hotel Península Valdés	Puerto Madryn	21 Oct	24 Oct	3	2 × Twin Panoramic 2 × Double Panoramic	13:00 / 10:00
Iguazú Jungle Lodge	Puerto Iguazú	24 Oct	26 Oct	2	2 × Twin Master Deluxe 2 × Double Master Deluxe	14:00 / 10:00
Pleno Palermo Soho	Buenos Aires	26 Oct	27 Oct	1	2 × Twin Balcony Junior 2 × Double Balcony Junior	15:00 / 12:00

Four rooms throughout — two twins and two doubles — and the same configuration in every city. All rates include breakfast.

Buenos Aires · Nights 1–4 and 10

Pleno Palermo Soho

Sixty-three rooms over eight floors in the middle of Palermo Soho, with a ninth-floor terrace, a pool and a spa on top of it.

The hotel describes itself as "warmth, design and well-being," which is marketing, but the position is not: you step out of the door into the densest concentration of good restaurants, cafés, bookshops and design stores in the city. That is the entire reason this property was chosen over something grander in a quieter district.

Rooms run from 28 to 60 square metres across the building, with plenty of natural light. Yours are the Balcony Junior category, which is what the name suggests — a private balcony over the Palermo streets.

Downstairs there are two restaurants: Raggio Ostería and Ru Omakase Atlántico, both doing international cooking with local ingredients. Breakfast is an artisan buffet. On the ninth floor there is a terrace with a solarium and an outdoor pool, open seasonally — late October is the start of that season — plus a spa with dry and wet saunas and a gym.

The lobby of Pleno Palermo Soho, with seating and warm lighting — The lobby · photograph courtesy of Pleno Hotels

Rooms: 63Over 8 floors
Your category: Balcony JuniorTwin and double
Breakfast: IncludedArtisan buffet
On site: Pool & spaNinth-floor terrace

The ninth-floor terrace at Pleno Palermo Soho

All Pleno Palermo Soho photographs courtesy of the hotel · plenohotels.com

Puerto Madryn · Nights 5–7

Hotel Península Valdés

A seafront hotel on the Golfo Nuevo, a short walk from the centre of town and the promenade.

The property is the established address in Puerto Madryn, and the reason it was picked is the view: your rooms are the Panoramic category, 22 square metres, facing straight out over the water. After a nine-hour day on the steppe, coming back to a window full of gulf is worth a lot.

Everything you need in a base for three nights is here — restaurant, bar and café, buffet breakfast, 24-hour reception, room service, a gym, and a small spa with a jacuzzi. The seafront promenade is at the door, and the Ecocentro and the port are both a walk away.

It is a working town hotel rather than a wilderness lodge, and that is the right choice for this leg: you are out all day and want a hot shower, a good dinner and a comfortable bed at the end of it.

A Panoramic room at Hotel Península Valdés — Panoramic room

The buffet breakfast spread at Hotel Península Valdés — Buffet breakfast

Patagonian lamb being roasted on an iron cross beside an open fire — Cordero al asador

The spa jacuzzi at Hotel Península Valdés — Spa and jacuzzi

The coastline near Puerto Pirámides on the Valdés Peninsula — The coast the hotel looks out on

Hotel Península Valdés photographs courtesy of the hotel · hotelpeninsula.com.ar

Puerto Iguazú · Nights 8–9

Iguazú Jungle Lodge

A lodge built into the Paraná jungle, a few blocks from the centre of Puerto Iguazú and about twenty minutes from the falls.

This is the property that most obviously belongs to its setting. The hotel sits where the Iguazú River meets the forest, and the architecture leans into it — timber, open galleries, planting everywhere, and rooms that open onto balconies looking into green.

Your rooms are the Master Deluxe category: 30 square metres, a balcony with a jungle view, a bathroom with a bathtub, air conditioning, heating, a ceiling fan and a 50-inch television. The twin configuration comes with two queen-size beds, which is a good deal more generous than the word "twin" usually implies.

There are outdoor pools, a restaurant, a café, parking and 24-hour reception. Guests in recent reviews single out the breakfast, the pool after a day in the park, and how close the forest feels from the room.

A Master Deluxe room at Iguazú Jungle Lodge — Master Deluxe · photograph courtesy of Iguazú Jungle Lodge

Your category: Master Deluxe30 m², balcony
Twin rooms: 2 queensNot two singles
To the falls: ≈ 20 minBy road
On site: PoolsRestaurant and café

Interior of a Master Deluxe room at Iguazú Jungle Lodge

Bathroom in a Master Deluxe room at Iguazú Jungle Lodge

A room balcony looking into jungle at Iguazú Jungle Lodge

Iguazú Jungle Lodge photographs courtesy of the hotel · iguazujunglehotel.com. The lodge trades under both the Iguazú Jungle Lodge and Iguazú Jungle Hotel names; it is one property.