Buenos Aires is fast becoming a design center and boutique hotels are sprouting up everywhere.  The Baucis Hotel has 10 rooms in the Palermo Hollywood area of BA.  For friends travelling together, ask for a room where you can separate the beds into two units.  Rooms start at $89 and no two are alike.

Palermo is the section of Buenos Aires where you’ll find ad agencies, celebrities, and tv stations.  There are trendy spots, chic restaurants and cafes and plenty of people watching in Palermo.  Baucis Hotel is right in the middle of all this, plus great shopping, a great vibe all around.

Buenos Aires hotels come in many forms, but right now staying at a boutique hotel is a special treat.  One such is is Home Hotel, opened in 2005 by a local paired with a Brit.  They make a great team:  Home Hotel was one of B.A.’s first boutique hotels, and their collection of mid-century furniture and vintage wallpapers is wonderful.  The interiors are eclectic without being outrageous, and quietly underscore the pair’s love of collecting modern furniture from the 1950s.

The building has many strong elements of glass and cement, forming the perfect backdrop for the mid-century modern details of the hotel.  There are twenty rooms in all, and vintage wallpaper permeates the strict harsh lines created by the glass an concrete.

Home Hotel has a pool and garden, and there are two rooms with kitchens and lofts.