Rochester Bariloche

I loved my stay here. The staff was wonderful, especially Gabriel and Ezequiel.Everyone was so welcoming and so helpful. I got a massage from Silvina and she was seriously the best massage therapist I have ever been to! I scheduled another one from her the following evening. I felt so comfortable in the room I booked and loved the view and the location.

beautiful view, close to Bariloche city center. 25' drive to cirri Catedral. they are building a restaurant. they bring breakfast to you room everyday at the time you order. the staff is really nice. have a beautiful pool.|Rooms are very comfortable, with balcony and a kitchenette. they have enough place to park your car.|My children love the place. we definitely go back next year for our winter break. thanks for the hospitality.

Pros: -Great rooms with a nice view. We stayed in one of the lofts. Very spacious -Parking is easy. We drove into town and parking there was very difficult. I imagine at some of the hotels there, it would be an issue. It was nice being at a hotel with good parking. Cons: -It's a good 15-20 minutes from the town center (depending on traffic). If you want someplace within walking distance of the town, this is not the place for you -Staff were friendly but those we spoke to did not have the best English. We speak some Spanish, at least enough to communicate. For us, it wasn't a major issue. But for English-speaking travelers that speak no Spanish, it could be a little challenging. That said, it's a very pleasant experience and I would still recommend this location.

Great place! The jacuzzi hot tub is the best, it comes with bath salts that smell amazing. Staff was super friendly too. Highly recommend. The pool is heated, it’s not deep enough to swim in though but perfect to relax

All around excellent experience. The installations are fantastic, very clean and well-designed. The staff, which is to me one of the most important aspects, is beyond nice and hospitable, incredibly responsive. The rooms are massive, the hot tub is the biggest I've been in! The beds are wonderful. They also provide anything you might need to cook and such if you so choose. If you don't, delivery arrives straight to your door, as they guide it through. Breakfast was just delicious, the spa area is very nice, the pool is beautiful. 10/10 would recommend.

A wonderful place to stay when visiting Bariloche. The Rochester is comfortable, clean, spacious and the staff and service exceptional. Always helpful. The location is gorgeous, just across from the ‘lago’. Highly recommend.

One of the managers of the hotel (Gabriel) told us that the tap water was perfectly fine to drink. We then got violently ill from said water, keeping us bed ridden for 3 days. When confronted about it, he and the hotel refused to take any responsibility, or even apologize for what he caused.||Additionally, the jets in our rooms jacuzzi were broken, and there was constant construction going on DIRECTLY outside our window.||||This is by far the worst experience I’ve ever had at a hotel, or airbnb, and it essentially ruined most of our trip. Please don’t stay here, we were poisoned and treated very poorly after the fact.

After reading reviews, some of which puzzled me, and a few direct questions, I decided to book this hotel. I would best define this place as an Apart-motel, not a hotel. There is a front building with the reception, pool table, computers heated pool and gym, and then, up the hill accessible by a pebble road, a small parking lot and the building with the rooms. Both buildings are nicely decorated as seen in the pictures. Some construction finishing touches are a little rustic but it is a very, very comfortable and pleasant place. We stayed in a loft. We were 4 and were very comfortable. There are stairs inside and outside the room, in addition to the steep access road, so travel light and if you do not have a car asked the taxi to drive up the hill to download your luggage, rather than dropping everything off at the reception. Kitchen is quite complete but no dishwasher, so if you want dinner and breakfast self made you will wash a few dishes. Other than that, room service will clean everything. There are some supplies you can purchase from the hotel itself, like pasta, sauce, wine, water, soda.there is a shopping mall walking distance (about 200 m to the right when you exit on Bustillo) and supermarkets a little further away.The upstairs bed is hugh!, they call it a "super king" and two parents with two preschoolers could easily sleep well on that. There are two single beds on the ground floor, plus a sofa. Two TVs, one upstars and one downstars, we did not watch much but there were some English channels in addition to plenty of Spanish cable channels. internet connection was not perfect but good enough for me. Some family members were less content. The view...it depends on the room. We interrupted our stay for some trekking, our first room was 24 with a nice view of the lake between the trees, the second room was number 26 which had no lake view at all, only trees. But 26 was larger which came in handy at the time of repacking our massive amount of stuff. My guess is that only some of the lofts have a good view. Rooms that are not lofts probably just see green. Special advise on the doors to the balconies: they are a special design to deal with Patagonian winds. The handle pointing down locks the door, the handle horizontal is a regular open door, the handle pointing up will open the top of the door toward the room while keeping the bottom locked, like a standing wedge. If you are unaware of it, it will feel like the door is collapsing on you, but you can get fresh air without blowing wind. Did I mentioned the pool? What a treat after a day of activity. It is not a heated swimming pool, I would rather call that an enormous indoor/outdoor hot tub. And there was a trampoline for the kids at the very top of the property. Front desk cas great!