Travel Tuesday: Faena Hotel & Universe

Built into El Porteno, an old grain silo on the fashionable Puerto Madero Este waterfront, the Faena Hotel is where the Red Queen would live circa 2010 (not surprising since with hotelier @PhilippeStarck and Argentinean designer Alan Faena at the helm). There’s a unique Edwardian-meets-Colonial Mexico style with red velvet couches and black marble throughout the ‘universe’. And quite a universe it is: the hotel has two restaurants, a spa and a popular swimming pool and bar. With so many on-site places to explore (hence the “+ Universe” in this hotel’s official name), the hardest thing might just be finding the urge to leave the property’s red-brick walls. 

Check in to one of the sexiest hotels on earth, and check out my Top 5 Buenos Aires….