Altalaluna Hotel Boutique & Spa

We stayed at Altalaluna Hotel for far too short a time on our trip around Argentina. The hotel is a situated just outside Cafayate, surrounded by its vineyards and with a swimming pool in the grounds as well as a gym and spa. Beautiful old trees provide shade and they have designed the sleeping accommodation so that windows (with mosquito mesh!) and doors have been strategically placed so that a welcome cooling breeze flowed through the rooms during our stay. The bedrooms are comfortable and there is a little sitting out patio area attached to each property. Breakfast buffet tables were laden with fruits, breads, pastries, cakes, cheeses, meats and more than you could wish for.

This boutique hotel is located about 10 minutes by car from Cafayate - in an old building in the midst of green vineyards... We had a spacious colonial-style suite with a balcony on the upper floor. The only "negative" feature was the missing shower cabin. I simply dislike taking showers in a bathtub with a curtain... The hotel pool is at the edge of a huge garden with lounge chairs being found all across the ground. They have a large inside restaurant which - during our stay - had only been used for setting up the breakfast buffet. As the weather was gorgeous meals were served on the terrace or underneath the mighty trees in the garden. We had an excellent dinner on both evenings accompanied by their Tukma wines. One afternoon we ordered a ham and cheese platter - after a long wait they surprised us with the most opulent "picada" which would easily have fed three people... Regrettably we had to skip the wine tasting as it was in Spanish only. But we watched the group from a table nearby and they seem to have had a lot of fun with the "sommelière". The staff was very attentive and we would definitely come back if we had the chance...