I visited Rosario last week. The city is beautiful, the people are nice, and the food is excellent.
Rosario … If you look at the city's insides, you will find that it is a new city to the tourist circuit, which makes it all the more intriguing. You have to search for the beauty -- the nooks and crannies where the magic is hidden.
Solar Los Aromos Hostel in Santa Fe … I've been there last December, 2004. Very pretty place to stay in and clean. All the park around is very beautiful also, and is full of plants, trees, and flowers. The swimming pool is very nice as well. Each bungalow has cable TV, and its private bathroom and kitchen, they also have a heater.
Cool Raul Hostel in Rosario … Wicked hostel to get to know other nationalities. thanks to the top lads that run it (Lael and Omar). It's a must stay when in Rosario.
Posada Juan Ignacio in Rosario … Great staff, clean rooms, and a good vibe.
Avanti Hostel in Rosario … Nice building, spacious bathrooms, all clean and comfortable. When I arrived, the staff were very friendly and helpful, gave me a map, marked loads of areas of interest. No other guests were English speakers, so I was a bit isolated, although that's probably just bad luck and bad timing. Several dorms, including mine, are right next to the common room, and only a few metres from the speakers, so on weekends don't expect any peace in your room from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. I would have given a three or a four rating, but I had a bad experience on the last day. I checked out and left my bag there in the morning, and came back to wait for my bus. After a few hours lounging by the TV, they told me I needed to pay half my dorm price for the privilege of using their facilities that day. When I complained, one of the staff guys started going on to me about how it was a Hostel and not a Vegas Casino (?) and obviously I had to pay for the privilege, just like I would anywhere else. Well, after nine…
La Casona de Don Jaime 1 Hostel in Rosario … This was by far the worst hostel I've ever stayed in. Bathrooms were just filthy and the kitchen was quite poorly equipped. On the other side, there was twenty-four-hour hot water, dorms were ok, bunks had comfortable mattresses, and all bedrooms had lockers inside them. However, they were not the facilities but the staff who turned our staying at La Casona into my worst hostel experience so far. When we arrived on the first night we had to make our way to the hostel through the bar attached, Roots, only to find that the guy at the reception desk was as drunk as the people sitting at the tables. The following night the same guy was extremely impolite to one of my friends, to whom he addressed in the most arrogant way, walking away while she was talking to him. The other girl who was at the reception at evening/night was also absolutely unhelpful, and both of them seemed more interested in running the bar than in assisting guests. They also tried to sell day trips they knew they…
Che Pampa's Hostel in Rosario … Che Pampas Hostel is a death trap, and that is just one of its many problems. The emergency exit information is to "use the windows." The hostel is housed in a late nineteenth century town house where the hostel is one floor up from the street via two very narrow flights of stairs. Anyone using the windows can look forward to a twelve-foot drop to the street below -- that is if your window opens onto the street below and not into the enclosed second floor courtyard where one would be surrounded by a burning building. Most fires begin in kitchens. The "premium" private double room with "en-suite bath" is above the kitchen up a narrow metal stair case that is accessed from within the kitchen. The one window in the medieval cell-sized room opens onto the courtyard. The only exit would then be to reenter the house and walk through a couple rooms and past the kitchen. The private "en-suite bath" is actually outside the cell-like room and does not include a sink. If you want to wash your…
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