Walk through the inconspicuous street door to find a small boutique hotel offering simple, but charming facilities. Following a massage, why not enjoy a glass of wine and a jacuzzi on the sundeck before heading out into the hubbub of Las Canitas, where a vibrant strip of bars and restaurants wait for you on your doorstep.
Telephone: +54 11 4773 0901
Url: www.248finisterra.com
Price: US$105-179
Las Cañitas’ first real boutique hotel, 248 sits right beside Soul Café (See Drink), the focal point of Báez’s strip of bars.
Entered through an inconspicuous street door, the hotel is housed in a low-rise, early 20th Century building with 11 rooms, a small wine bar on the ground floor and a sundeck with stargazing Jacuzzi. All the rooms are cosy, with wooden floors, lime green walls, mini bars and freshly-pressed white linen. Intimate and refreshing the hotel, while not exactly five star luxury, is ideally placed and well equipped for a couple of days at the coal face.
Massage and yoga are available either on deck or below, either before or after a couple of looseners in one of Báez’s bars. They say Las Cañitas is slightly passé, but take the opening of 248 Finisterra as a sign that the trendsetters could return to stargaze once more in this neighbourhood. The polo ground is only a few yards away.
