Hotel Kosten Aike, El Calafate

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Introduction

The Hotel Kosten Aike is located in the middle of El Calafate a short walk from the main drag where there are various restaurants and shops. It is a small hotel with a cosy “Alpine” feel about it.

Hotel Kosten Aike is a small, cosy hotel Alpine in style that offers “no fuss” accommodation in rooms with reasonable spacing and en-suite bathrooms. Well position for access to the El Calafate main drag where various restaurants and shops are located.

Xelena Hotel, El Calafate

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Introduction

The Xelena hotel is located in the western end of El Calafate close to Lake Argentina. The spa, which is the best feature of the hotel, is on the ground floor with a split indoor-outdoor pool from where there are views directly to the lake.

Xelena hotel has 70 spacious bedrooms furnished in a modern style. The lake-side rooms enjoy a good view down to Lake Argentina.

One of the surprises at this hotel is the split indoor-outdoor swimming pool on the ground floor from where there is a view to the lake.

Hotel Sierra Nevada, El Calafate

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Introduction

Hotel Sierra Nevada is a small 40-room hotel located in the western end of El Calafate. The owner’s focus is creating a natural environment with nice, flowered gardens on the outside and bright, spacious rooms on the inside.

Hotel Sierra Nevada is set 500 mts back and up from Lake Argentina amid flowered gardens. There is Wifi and free bike use for guests as well as a gym and communal lounge and restaurant.

The 40 bedrooms are decorated in a simple, but bright way with use of white-coloured walls. Spacious rooms with metallic-framed chairs.

Short walk to downtown El Calafate and options to bird watch from bedrooms and the garden.

Good views to lake from the upper floors. Simple furnishings, homely.
Good mid-level hotel.

Hotel El Quijote, El Calafate

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Introduction

Hotel El Quijote is a simple, nondescript hotel, offering reasonable accommodation in its newer sector. Its location makes it very handy to visit restaurants in El Calafate.

The Hotel El Quijote is located in the centre of El Calafate, only one block from the main Libertador high street, or main drag. It is a modest hotel with two parts. One sector is the older part, and the other sector is newer part. The older sector offers smaller-sized rooms, whereas the newer sector has rooms with more space. It is a rather simple, “ordinary” hotel, but practical.