Fantastic apartment in Palermo Hollywood area, on third floor, with elevator right beside the entrance door!, very close to Metro Carranza station and few blocks away from Avenida Santa Fe.
Mini supermarket for your essential needs just downstairs, on street level, just next door.
Lots of restaurants, cafes and bars in the area.
Area is safe but after dusk hardly any people, which makes one feel unsafe.
However, that’s no reason to stay at home, as taxis are passing by very frequently and you can waive them at any time, no need to call in advance for the pick up. Taxis are inexpensive. For example from the apartment to the national Aeroparque airport i paid 350 pesos with tip. To Tango Porteño, located by Theatro Colon and by Obelisko, the taxi fare was 740 both ways, with tips, using two different taxi drivers.
There are lots of specialty stores within walking distance: bakeries, meat/butcher shops, veggie/fruit stores, pharmacies. Bank machines/banks can be found on Avenida Santa Fe.
Recoleta can be walked to, i did, but it takes good 1 - 2 hours depending where. Good if you want to explore the city on foot, get exercise, and get better idea of the surroundings.
I recommend taking Hop On and Hop Off bus for one or two days (i did two, you need it, city is huge). It’s available from tourist office downtown Recoleta (google it). This will allow you to see the city at the glance with audio tour guide in 9 languages. And then you can venture into areas which you like the most.
Recoleta cementary is s must to see, and free of charge.
Also, while out of Buenos Aires, about 30 kms out of the city, I recommend seeing Tigre. Tour can be purchased online (google it).
Elbi’s place is really Beautiful, extremely clean, in fact it’s spotless, beautifully decorated and the only things missing are: salt, pepper, sugar, oil. I am joking of course. If she had these in her apartment, there would be nothing else missing at all.
There is nice balcony at the back of apartment from the bedroom, overlooking other buildings and swimming pool.
There is very small swimming pool on top of the building for you to use, free of charge, with tanning beds. But water is absolutely freezing and pool is tiny so i could not get in it, let alone use it.
There is laundry machine on 8th floor free of charge for you to use (i never did, was too busy exploring).
There is maid service included in the price of rent and lady comes in once per week to clean the apt.
Elbi was so nice that knowing i was a solo female traveller with no Spanish knowledge, she agreed to pick me up from the local/national airport when i first arrived to Buenos Aires. She speaks some English so for someone like me with no Spanish this was a great help. She even borrowed me her metro pass to use public transit (which i very much appreciated but i never used it).
When i asked her for tips in the area she was very helpful.
The only thing that was weird was having to sign a temporary rent agreement with rates, all written in Spanish. I signed it but in all honesty this was intimidating and i have never encountered something like this. Then Elbi asked me to pay for apt, but i already paid thru Airbnb and i sent her copy of the invoice via email. She said she was not yet paid by Airbnb and so thought i was gonna pay in person. I think maybe she’s new to Airbnb , but this was a bit intimidating and nerve wrecking. But there were no problems after that. I guess she followed thru with Airbnb herself and got her payment thru them. Then when i was leaving she came in personally collect the keys to the apt and to say good-bye to me.
I would definotelly stay at her apartment again. Highly recommended.