The location is absolutely great in the middle of a Nationla park, but if you expect to see a real working farm, you will be dissapointed- a few sheep & cows that they have are just a tourist attraction. The location is good, but qua activities there is actually not much on offer. Horsebackriding is avialiable for 1 hour or 3 hours, there are 2 mountain bikes, 2 short waliking trails, but apart from that there is not much to do.
Personnel is helpful, but not very interestedin what they do. In general, the food was OK, but breakfast definitely needs to be improved.
Nibepo was the 3rd estancia we visited, the most expensive and the most dissapointing of all. I would suggest visiting it for a day rather than staying at it. If you want to experience real Patagonia & have time, try estancia El Condor, it is absolutely amazing & people are great.

I just loved our stay here. We were there at the very end of the season, so we were probably the last guests before the winter set in. Driving down this road to the estancia (about an hour and a half? from el calafate), I was starting to wonder where I was taking my friends. I was nervous when we pulled up and were the only people parked in the little lot. Wow, though, how quickly my anxiety evaporated and how great I felt when I realized that all of my hard work and research paid off.

The hosts (a cute married couple) couldn't have been more welcoming or wonderful. The place is really cozy and cute. The power comes on at a certain time, you are either alone or with only another guest or two, and it is a SUCH a retreat. We LOVED it! So much. The rooms are really big and so clean. The food was delicious. The coziness factor was over the top. It was a beautiful, fun, relaxing retreat. And really close to the glacier hikes. The views from the estancia are unmatched. To be sure, it really is in the middle of nowhere. Don't expect to scoot out for a quick drink or dinner (though the food was great and there was tons of wine to buy for a great price much less than what I'm used to paying in Manhattan), BUT it is a wonderful escape.

My recommendation might be what we did - One night at Esplendor Calafate, which was a beautiful hotel "in town", and enjoy one of the delicious restaurants there. There head to the estancia for a night of r&r, glacier hiking the next day, another night or r&r, and then head back. Don't miss the horseback riding. It is so freaking gorgeous. You will freak out when you see how beautiful the scenery is down there. And it is cool to know that the estancia goes all the way to the chilean border.

Such a pleasant experience of a lifetime!

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have, which might cut back on how many hours you need to spend researching.

We stayed here in January and were quite disappointed with our stay. The ranch is one and a half hour drive from El Calafate on a rough road and all day trips require three hour return trip. Service was hap hazard and it was difficult to find information on prebooked trips. Horse riding on the ranch was amazing but was only offered when we requested it, despite having been prebooked and paid for. Overall, very remote and very little on offer. We expected a more vibrant, working ranch with the opportunity to get involved in ranch life. Great if you want to sit by the open fire and read books and escape city life though.

My wife and I spent two of our four nights in the Calafate area in mid-February at Nibepo Aike. We stayed at the much less expensive Hosteria Kau Kaleshen in Calafate itself for the first two nights because we arrived by plane in the evening and spent the entire next day visiting the Perito Moreno glacier (for which trekking on the glacier was definitely the highlight). We then rented a car on our second morning and drove to the estancia, although most guests seem to come by taxi. The cost of the two day car rental, including gas, was a bit more than a taxi would have cost, but we were pleased that we had the freedom to come and go as we wished. However, unless you are going to visit the glacier from the estancia, there is no need to have a car once there as there is nowhere else to drive to.

We chose this estancia based upon the earlier reviews on the TripAdvisor web site and they were bang on. The host couple, Adolfo Jansma (from Eastern Europe) and his Argentinean wife, work for the owners of the estancia (who are not on site) and had come back this season after an absence of a few years, while they managed an estancia elsewhere. They are very nice and attentive. The room was large, comfortable and clean. Sheep grazed on the lawn outside our window. Dinners were good.

The horseback ride was nice (though much shorter than we had anticipated), but if it’s really riding you want, consider Estancia Huechahue near Junin de los Andes (an hour and a half north of Bariloche). On the other hand, the scenery is spectacular and we had fantastic, easy hikes up the mountainside, overlooking the magnificent lakes and snow-capped mountains.

The shearing of a single sheep each evening is just for the guests, but is interesting to watch.

Look for a beautiful rainbow over the mountains in the early morning.