Quebrada de Humahuaca
A well-regarded midranger offering an exceptional deal on its five rooms with timber floors, beamed ceilings and cute tiled baths. Some rooms are split…
Must-see hotels in Salta & the Andean Northwest
Quebrada de Humahuaca
A central cheapie with spotless tiled rooms that sleep three, set around a courtyard and parking area. If you're toting a bag full of dirty clothes you'll…
Salta
Book ahead to grab one of the six rooms at this stylish yet comfortable boutique sleep. The rooms all have tiled floors, Moroccan lanterns and recessed…
Cafayate
Expect elegant simplicity and unadorned, attractive and spotless rooms with clean lines and inviting bathrooms. Excellent value, helpful service and a…
Salta
Rooms are simple yet spacious at this central hotel with tiled floors, though the walls are thin. Rooms on the top floor are preferable. It isn't fancy…
Cafayate
Doubles aren't huge but are well decorated and painted with pastels, and all have private baths, while the dorms are clean and airy, and outfitted with…
Catamarca & La Rioja
A well set-up guesthouse, with simple, attractive rooms in a rust-and-peach-colored modern adobe, blessed with a wraparound porch, ceramic tile floors and…
Catamarca & La Rioja
Pleasant, clean and friendly, this is a well-run place with a peaceful feel despite some main-road noise. Pay the extra pesos for the downstairs dorm,…
Catamarca & La Rioja
This standout option in Tinogasta occupies a historical building, a stop on the Ruta del Adobe, and features 10 cozy rustic rooms, traditionally built…
Salta & the Andean Northwest
A block off Plaza Independencia, this modernized hotel is a decent deal, particularly if you can bag an online rate. The renovated superior rooms are…
Salta
You pay extra for the top location here on a corner of the postcard-pretty central plaza. This stately, traditional hotel's facilities are good and…
Salta & the Andean Northwest
With a sumptuous entrance and gorgeous curving staircase, this place looks like a palace at first glance. Sadly, there are no four-poster beds or servants…
Salta
Salta’s most visible upmarket hotel is a bit of an eyesore, but rooms are slick, and get pricier and larger as you move higher up the building. There are…
Salta & the Andean Northwest
Upstairs in a lovely old house, this pleasant hostel offers eight-bed dorms with lockers and OK-value private bunk rooms. There's a pool table and…
Salta
Simple, but with decent standards of cleanliness, this place is on a busy road a few blocks west of the center. Life revolves around its twin patios,…
Catamarca & La Rioja
Just off Plaza 25 de Mayo, La Rioja’s dominant hotel property has good service, a central location and a fistful of facilities. However, the elevator is…
Quebrada de Humahuaca
Run by warm-hearted and motherly Olga, this is one of a few unheated cheapies on this street. In theory the rooms – spick and span, with individual beds –…
Salta
An aging but quaint four-star posada with splendid service. Rooms are large, with wood furnishings and king-sized beds. There's a pool and spa, and the…
Salta & the Andean Northwest
If you can handle a few dated color schemes – the milk-chocolate-brown toilets aren't looking so slick these days – this is a reliable and comfortable…
Salta
Though it's on a busy, chaotic street (lots of local character, though), we still think this is a worthwhile budget hotel. Rooms are small but well…
Salta & the Andean Northwest
A reliable if downbeat option with a ski-lodge feel and helpful staff. The medium-sized rooms here are solid without being exciting, and have gleaming…
Catamarca & La Rioja
This central hostel is a simple but likable place in a great location, with air-con and room to move. It's clean, but a bit like when you told your…
Catamarca & La Rioja
This hotel is smack in the heart of Fiambalá and is a hub of tourist activity. Rooms are set in a sprawling structure, built around an unattractive and…
Salta
Though this budget hotel has a rather lugubrious lobby area, rooms are much crisper. It's a family-run place that offers spotless, comfortable and modern…
Salta
Centrally located, this is a basic hostel in a cool old house with plenty of lounging space. There are decent bathroom facilities and a relaxed vibe…
Quebrada de Humahuaca
In a peaceful location, signposted 800m across the river bridge, this appealing adobe hostel has a variety of quirky dorm rooms with lockers, and decent…
Quebrada de Humahuaca
A sprawling lodge built from stone and stucco well situated at the base of the red rocks in Purmamarca. It's overpriced given the level of maintenance,…
Catamarca & La Rioja
A tower hotel on the main drag in the center of the action. Rooms have been redone relatively recently with wood floors, comfy beds, wall-mounted flat…
Camping Municipal Carlos Xamena
Salta
This place has 400 tent sites and a huge lakelike pool (it takes 10 days to fill). It’s typically loud in summer and on weekends. To get here take bus 3B…
Cafayate
Right on Cafayate's plaza, this is a welcoming spot behind a tour agency. It offers simple but comfortable en suite rooms around a pretty patio, and dorm…
Salta
This simple guesthouse makes for a decent budget choice. It's a funky courtyard complex with a handful of tiled rooms, and was a popular place at the time…
Cafayate
A solid option for families and couples, these decent apartments come with kitchenettes and living areas; the larger ones are duplexes, with two sleeping…
Catamarca & La Rioja
It's a cheap sleep at this simple central hostel, but they sardine 'em into the fan-cooled dorms, with not much room to move between bunks. It's stuffy on…
Quebrada de Humahuaca
Club Hostel has comfortable 10-bed dorms with stone floors and walls, set around a cool common area, pretty garden and fully equipped kitchen. The double…
Catamarca & La Rioja
Located at the southern entrance to Fiambalá, these simple cabañas offer full kitchens, two bedrooms (they sleep up to four comfortably), satellite TV and…
Salta
A charming posada-like tower near (but not too near) Salta's party district. Rooms are simple and bright, with tiled floors and colorful bedding sourced…
Camping Sindicato Luz y Fuerza
Cafayate
Very handy for town, this campground gets busy and its sandy pitches don't offer much shade. Facilities are good, though, and a lively social atmosphere…
Salta
A simple yet quite cute option steps from Plaza Güemes, this boutique inn has just eight rooms scattered around a courtyard, all with high ceilings. It's…
Cafayate
A terrific-value option that rambles around two courtyards; one has a pool. Rooms have ceramic tile floors, wall-mounted flat-screen TVs, floating…
Catamarca & La Rioja
Cool and tranquil, this modern hotel isn't centrally located and was under a retrofit when we last visited, but it's frequently full and worth considering…
