We stayed in Ximena’s apartment over Christmas and New Year 2018. Firstly, the place is spectacular. It was my wife, i, my parents in law and brother in law and sister in law - plus four children under 5. In our party were architects and an interior designer and they were all taken by the place. This place is a piece of Recoleta history. The place is not, and is not marketed as, the Grand Hyatt- it is a lived-in Buenos Aires home, with all the idiosyncrasies which that brings with it. The location is fantastic, just a couple of blocks from Santa Fe and I’d guess 500m from the Recoleta cemetery. It was also not lacking for any amenities there was everything we required in abundance. There was cleaning every day. Dishwasher, washing machine, great wood barbecue. We found it to be a great place for the kids with plenty of space to run around - though we did need to keep an eye on them. The house was a grand yet absolutely authentic place for us to host a Christmas Day lunch and a New Year’s Eve dinner, and will leave us and our guests with great memories for years to come.
Second point I would make is that our host Ximena is a wonderful human being and apart from going above and beyond generally, spent a great deal of her own time to help us resolve some complications which arose from one of the children unfortunately being hospitalized and went to considerable lengths to accomodate us staying on longer than we’d originally booked due to the child needing to remain hospitalised. This included coordinating with another party originally booked to stay. [I should add that we found Airbnb to be fundamentally beyond useless in this situation - what could and should have been an easy win for them they managed to turn into a point of alienation. Their haste to distance themselves from trying to assist was impressive]. Were it not for the goodwill of Ximena, what was already a trying time would have been significantly more so. We were all very grateful for her empathy, get it done attitude and overall humanity.
So yes, great city, great place and super great host. We would for sure stay again. Many thanks Ximena!