Esplendor del Calafate Hotel

Accommodation:
Esplendor del Calafate Hotel is the first 'Boutique Hotel' in the area. The hotel has magnificent views of the Cerro Calafate and Argentinean Lake (Lago Argentino).

Offering comfortable accommodation and quality services, this property is a perfect place to reside and experience an unforgettable stay while exploring the Glaciar Perito Moreno, the area's most important tourist attraction.

Location
Situated in a fantastic position in El Calafate, the Esplendor Hotel is just a kilometre from the city centre and 23 kilometres from the airport.

Rooms
Designed with the Patagonian harmony, the 51 guestrooms are comfortable and well-equipped with a host of modern amenities to ensure you a complete relaxation.

Restaurant
You can begin your day with an international buffet breakfast served at the hotel and later dine at the onsite restaurant that offers regional and international cuisine in a great, elegant and charming atmosphere. You can also relax in the bar while enjoying the best drink and aperitifs.

General
The hotel boasts a hall with a capacity to accommodate up to 100 people for organising any kind of social events. Offering a unique view of the Turquoise Lake and the White Mountain Ranges, the living room is an ideal place for relaxing and reading your favourite book.

The hotel has high ceilings and beautiful balconies with excellent views. The Hotel offers 20 suites and all the rooms have a Jacuzzi for 2 people.

El Calafate is located in the Santa Cruz province and takes its name "calafate" from the small shrub which has yellow flowers in spring and purple fruit in summer. This fruit is typical of the South of Patagonia; the appetizing berry is used to make jam. According to the tradition, whoever eats calafate will always return for more. In reality those who come to 'El Calafate' do not leave.

Santa Cruz' famous attraction is Glacier Perito Moreno (Glaciar Perito Moreno) and the eternal ice fields that surround it. It is considered one of the most important drinking water reserves of the world.

The Glaciers National Park (Parque Nacional Los Glaciares) covers a surface of 600,000 hectares with 47 glaciers, such as the Viedma, the Moyano, the Marconi, the Upsala, the Agassiz, the Bolado, the Onelli, the Peineta, the Spegazzini, the Mayo, the Ameghino, the Moreno and the Frias, all of them located within the Atlantic basin.

Services and Facilities:

• Air conditioning/ Heating.
• Internet and fax connection, Broadband access.
• Safe Box.
• Mini-bar.
• Queen Size beds.
• Hairdryer.
• Non Smoking Rooms.
• Buffet Breakfast.
• Room service.
• Restaurant.
• Bar.
• Meeting Room.
• Laundry and Dry cleaning services.
• Multilingual Staff.

Attractions:

• El Calafate Regional Museum located on the main street, Av. Libertador General San Martin, between Rio Gallegos and Coronel Rosales streets, before the bridge over Arroyo Calafate.
• Time Traveling is a new concept of museum, the Historical Interpretation Centre was inaugurated in Calafate. An interesting and educational place, very close to the city centre.

Useful Information:
El Calafate is a colorful villa, sorrounded by peaceful vegetation. It is a small city of 4,000 inhabitants; the streets have a particularly enchanting presence, characterized by the construction of low, warm and rustic houses and a blue landscape that blends with the sky. The temperature goes from around 19ºC in the summer to -2º in winter.

Location:
El Calafate is 316 km away from Río Gallegos, the capital of Santa Cruz. This town is near the Argentinean Lake (Lago Argentino), a green water surface covering 1,600 km2, with a length of 60 km and a width between 12 and 14 km. It also has great mysterious depths, like all lakes orginated from glaciers, ranging from 35 m in Feruglio, on the southern shore, to 300 m off the Avellaneda Peninsula (Peninsula de Avellaneda).

It has a population of around 8,000 inhabitants on a 155,000-hectare surface, with rivers and creeks draining into the Atlantic Ocean through the Santa Cruz River.