We stayed at the Grand Brizo as part of a month long trip to Patagonia and visited Buenos Aires for two days. (We have been to around 40 countires). The hotel opened in April 2018 and would rank as nice by our standards, but not at top of the list. The staff was friendly and efficient at check-in and checkout. They provide city maps, guidance on where to go in the city and areas that were and were not safe. Its location is central with several nearby attractions obelisk (5 minute walk), Café Tortoni (10 minute walk) and Plaza de Mayo (15 minute walk). There were restaurants located a 5 minute walk from hotel. The area around the hotel felt safe with lots of police around, but not recommended to be alone late at night. The hotel arranged taxi to and from hotel for a reasonable price. We got to more distant places like La Boca and La Recoleta Cemetery by (~$5) radio taxi or Uber.
We asked for a quite room and were given one facing side street. Our superior double room was nice with wood floors, comfortable and relatively spacious. The closet was large enough to hold two of our large suitcase standing up. We slept well in the hotel, except for being woken up around 6am (or earlier) by a rock band getting setup for the marathon on December 31. I am not sure why the city allowed this to happen. I called the front desk and they were unaware it was scheduled. If we knew ahead of time we could of better prepared by going to bed earlier.
The breakfast was located on second floor of hotel in a nice dinning area overlooking spiral staircase to lobby. It was quality food presented well and with decent selection. We did not checkout the bar though I wish we did on NYE as it is located on the rooftop. We could hear fireworks going off around town.
I would not recommend visiting Buenos Aires on December 31 or particularly January 1 as everything was closed. New Years was a good day to visit La Boca without tourist though shops did open later in the morning.
