Villaggio Hotel Boutique

Top tier service, huge comfortable rooms and amazing staff. Also best breakfast from a hotel we’ve had since staying in Argentina. Amelia and Mile were great and helped us check in early and hold our bags after check out. Highly recommend!

We stayed at the Villaggio during our visit to Mendoza and it was great! Very good price for a nice room and it was very clean. Breakfast was included and was delicious. The location is also perfect, very central and close to many restaurants.

This was probably once a truly grand hotel. Now the (bed)room is 4 star and the bathroom is sadly 3 star, due to the abundance of deferred maintenance. The bathroom is big, with bidet. The lobby is bright, marbled, neat and tidy and welcoming. The receptonists are friendly and helpful, with a very professional demeanor. There is free parking across the street. Breakfast is served on the ground floor behind the lobby, a decent mix of scrambled eggs, bacon, rolls, sweet croissants and emaciated looking unsweetened croissants, fruit juices, cereals etc. Plenty good to set you up for a full day of touristicating. Though we had the rental car, we often Ubered around town, only using the rental for out of town trips. The wineries have figured out how to separate tourists from their money. A winery tour and 3 or 5 wine tasting per couple is $160 USD minimum, up to $400 at Catena Zapata. For more money they will offer you 'Food and wine pairings'. These are merely wines served at the same-ish time as the food. We tried a few 'pairings' and for the most part, I would not have even served that wine with that food, and for dang sure would not misapply the 'pairing' label to them. But, hey! Thems gots wines to shift! Argentina has a reputation for beef, and the cooking thereof. The cuts of meat in South America are unlike the cuts in the US. It looks like the cuts are designed for the butcher's convenience, and to generate roasts, while in the US we favour steaks. What is called a rib-eye here is a tough gristled roast. The one commonality I found was the 'entrana' even sometimes subtitled as 'skirt steak' and skirt steak it surely is. I even got 2 out of 5 restaurants to cook skirt steak 'blue' or 'a la Inglesa.' Those two steaks were outstanding, though there is a tendency to over salt everything. Typical Argentine beef cookery involves crucifying a carcass on a metal crucifix, hanging it over a fire in the morning, and returning in the evening to hack off bits-o-charbeque. Thank you, but I prefer my charcoal in a toothpaste tube. I would definitely stay at Villaggio again. The hotel served our purposes. There are some decent restaurants around the corner on Sarmiento? A handful of blocks to the right of the hotel is the main drag where there are all manner of bars and restaurants. Loud music blares from each establishment with hawkers incessantly hustling you and reluctantly releasing you into the clutches of the next hawker or hawkerette. There were lots of young folks about and we left that space (hurriedly) to them.