We stayed at this hotel for 7 days in March 2005, our room was large and light with 3 beds. The bathroom could have been a little cleaner, but it was more than acceptable for the money $35USD/night with breakfast. We wanted to stay in an Argentinian hotel rather than a hotel full of American and European tourists and this certainly was the right place. The hotel staff was helpful in making dinner reservations and lending us champagne glasses to use in the room when we bought a bottle of champagne from the grocery store rather than from their small bar. We plan to return to BsAs next year and will defintely stay at the Hotel Principe again.

i am from Uruguay, and every time i travel to Bs As I stay at the Principe Hotel. Its disgusting read the things that the woman of Austria wrote. I know the people that works there and are very friendly. My language is spanish obviously, but every time i travel i enter in tripadvisor, sorry about my inglish. When i make reservations in every hotel of the world they ask me the days exactly i will stay because the works with reservation. The problem perhaps are that the american people or european thinks that in south america we are death and they want to pay U$S 35 dolars and receive a HIlton service. Write here anything its free, i see!!!

The Hotel Principe is well-located (close to the metro and just off busy Avenida Santa Fe), but there are better values. Our room was rundown, with none of the charm of Buenos Aires' other aging establishments. The room we were given was spacious enough, with two single beds in addition to a queen bed, but it also smelled musty. The bathroom reeked of mildew and its tiles, from wall to floor, needed a good scrubbing. The towels had seen better days and could best be described as "crunchy."

Worst of all, we returned to our room one afternoon to find the bed made, but also an unwelcome addition: an empty condom wrapper on one of the nightstands. The condom wrapper definitely was not ours. Disgusted, we called the front desk, who sent a maid to pick it up. The front desk was alarmingly nonchalant about the surprise, noting that it wasn't as if it had been a used condom itself! Buenos Aires is a beautiful and affordable destination; you don't need to accept shoddy standards to find a place to stay. For a bit more money and a lot more value, try the Guido Palace Hotel at Guido 1780, Recoleta. Tel: ---

I usually travel several months in a country- so I stayed last year 3 months in Argentina and this year I returned again. As everybody else my trip always starts in Buenos Aires and I have to return there to get my flight back home. From Feb. 1st - Feb.6th I stayed in Hotel Principe because it has nice previews from other customers. The hotel is very clean, it has nice large rooms and I liked also the quarter with its restaurants, stores and the streets with trees... I reserved my single room by e-mail, but they have not got it. Unfortunately they did not have a single room available so I had to take a four-bed-room, which costs AR$ 100,-- (us $ 35,--) the night. After Feb. 6th I left the hotel to continue my trip. On March 5th I have had an accident and had to return to Buenos Aires to get a return flight - my right shoulder was broken and this was very painful. Unfortunately VARIG, my air-company, was not able to tell me which day a seat in a plane will be available and I explained to the reception that I cannot exactly say which day I will leave Buenos Aires. This really upsets the receptionist, he has been complaining about the way I do my reservations and I should be able to understand that they are doing their business by reservation and now they had to wait until I will tell them.......For my trips to South-America I studied Spanish but in these moments I have been regretting it - it would have been much better I would have not understand what he was telling me! Nobody in this hotel did help me with luggage or just some other little help....they were watching me while I tried to lock my bags - all with one hand and pain...The young gentlemen in the reception is not able to greet you once you enter the lobby.
SERVICE, KINDNESS, POLITENESS, HELPFULNESS - THOSE WORDS THEY DO NOT KNOW AT THE HOTEL PRINCIPE BUENOS AIRES!!!