I used to stay regularly at the Claridge 3 decades ago but had not been inside for over 10 years. If I say almost everything was recognisable including the furniture it may sound bad but in fact the fittings were of very good quality. I read the TripAdvisor reviews after the hotel was booked for me, and almost felt inclined to cancel but in fact I was quite satisfied. The bed was comfortable, sheets clean and crisp. The carpet had food or drink stains but the bathroom, while small, was clean, functional and well supplied. The rooms have desk-level power sockets so that you don't have to scrabble around under the furniture, and wi-fi, but you need an Argentine adaptor.
Staff were very agreeable but I have one serious complaint. I went out before the room was made up and came back some 7 hours later to find the room made up but the door open and lights on! They need to fit self-closing doors, as well as training the maids.
The Claridge bar has been famous for half a century or more as a very congenial place and I was glad to find it is still. And they have pleasant bar staff who know how to mix drinks. The breakfast buffet was ok except that the fruit was unripe and hard.

I expected much more of this supposed 5 star hotel. Location is good (centrally located just off main pedestrianised street in BA, however town centre quite dead after hours). The reception & breakfast staff was friendly and helpful, and the breakfast selection was good. The pool area & pool is much smaller than depicted in the photo and seem over crowded if more than 10 people in the area. A very bored looking lady requires guests to sign in prior to allowing them access. The pool area has views onto the back-end of some very ugly buildings & is overall quite depressing: broken plastic deck chairs, with sandy containers which are filled to the brim with cigarette buds. We stayed in a standard double room on the 4th floor. The room was small, smelled mouldy, with stains on the wall and carpet. There is a large old box TV and an ancient mini bar fridge, and none of the preset buttons (i.e. housekeeping) on the phone works, nor does the ancient looking switch by the door which is supposed to indicate whether cleaning service is required or not. Shower pressure was good and the bathroom seemed to be in a better state than the room. This hotel seriously needs to be freshened up and I would suggest you stay elsewhere till this refurbishment has taken place. Transfers to airport on New Year's day could be arranged for 180 pesos but we flagged one down on street outside hotel which came to 140.

Having read the previous reviews we were VERY skeptical of booking this hotel for our one night stay in Buenos Aires. The rooms were clean and the service was very attentive. The hotel is dated and could use some refurbishment, but it was nto as bad as previously described. The hotel is "typical" european,,,,small elevators, poor cable TV and small bathrooms. For a 1 or 2 night stay this hotel will fulfill your needs....but I would not spend a week though!

I have stayed here before and really choose it for the location to the airport and surrounding areas.
Behind the charm of the entrance hall and bar, lurks another side to the hotel.
It is outdated and badly in need of a coat of paint.

I was shown 3 rooms, before I settled on one, even though I had booked a Superior in advance.

The rooms I were shown were very shabby and you couldn't swing a cat in the bathroom.
If you stepped out of the bath/shower you woud have had to step over the BD and toilet to an area of 60cm x 60cm ( it looked it) to dry yourself!

The room I settled on was very shabby but clean.

The hotel is situated in an area that you have to be very careful to walk around.
It does have a certain buzz to it, with lots of shops, street sellers, bars etc, but be careful for pick pockets, leave watches etc in the hotel safe.