The Kosten Aike is near these landmarks: Lago Argentino, Glaciarium, Estancia 25 de Mayo, Laguna Nimez Reserva Natural Municipal, El Calafate Historical Interpretation Center, Avenida Libertador, Walichu Caves, Santa Teresita del Nino Jesus, Southern Spirit, Museo Argentino del Juguete, Calafate Fishing, Parque Anfiteatro del Bosque, Plazoleta Heroes de Malvinas, Casino Club - Calafate, Plaza De Los Pioneros, Hoya del Chingue, Museo Regional Municipal de El Calafate, Azules Arte en Turismo, Amayco Turismo y Expediciones, Patagonia Profunda, Cruceros MarPatag, Hielo y Aventura, Cal Tur Travel And Tourism, Cabalgata del Glaciar, Estancia Cristina, Calafate Mountain Park, Cerro Frias, El Calafate Tours by Say Hueque, Glaciar Sur, Yeti Ice Bar, Tangol El Calafate, Calafate Extremo, La Tienda de Vinos, Calafate Travel, GlacioBar, Criollos Turismo, Azul Latina - El Calafate, Patagonia Dreams, Aike Traslados, Puerto de Frutos, Chalten Travel Turismo, Chalten Travel Rent A Car, South Road Patagonia Extrema, Arte Indio, Explora Calafate, TodoCalafate, Tangol El Calafate, Movete TPA Traslados en El Calafate y El Chaltén, Calafate Walking Tour, Luna Roja El Calafate, Howlanders - El Calafate tours-, Enjoy!, Polar Bar, Gigantes Patagones, Tagle Servicios Turisticos, Tagle Servicios Turísticos, Mil Outdoor SA, Tribus Del Sur, Southwind Experience, Morresi Viajes, Hls Travesias, Always Glaciers, Primera Vivienda de El Calafate, Superlimp Calafate, Vellon Negro, Solo Patagonia S.A. Day Tours, Chacra Las Moras, Telares Andinos, Estetica EL Calafate, Uco Wine Shop, Glaciar Turismo, Traslados Calafate, Parque Provincial Península De Magallanes, Upsala Expediciones, Patagonia Night, Turismo Calafate, Turismocalafate.com, Terminal De Ómnibus El Calafate, Estancia 25 de Mayo, Calafate Kayaks, Shackleton Solo, Gooshe Aike, Cabalgata en Patagonia and Punta Walichu

Excellently located hotel within easy walking distance of the many bars and eateries.

The breakfast is fantastic and there is a bar in the lobby, a courtyard, a ping pong table and billiards.

Lobby is spacious and there is a bar and meeting and sitting rooms  and game room as well as a restaurant on the first floor.

There’s a pool table and ping pong table and cozy lobby and bar too!

•	Great location, two minute walk to main street (bar, cafes, restaurants, tour companies)
•	Quiet location
•	Pleasant, large room
•	Helpful staff
•	Best breakfast of our tour
•	Games room
•	Wi-Fi: intermittent and constantly dropping out

I heard the music from the bar next door.

Spotless rooms, great breakfast, awesome bar and restaurant, and the best staff you can hope for in a hotel.

Also the lounge and bar were really warm and cosy too as it was very cold outside.

This hotel is superbly well-located in town within walking distance of many bars, restaurants and local artisanal shops.

Bar snacks in the evening are first class and quite reasonable as are the drinks.

but only a short walk to the bars and restaurants.

although I don't speak a lick of Spanish the staff in the quaint/charming little Bar didn't speak or have a great understanding of English.

They have a spa, bar and restaurant in the premises.

Breakfast was very good, and the bar staff attentive.

We ate in the bar one evening - it's a very limited menu - and had breakfast each morning in the restaurant and everything was nicely presented and enjoyable.

but only a couple of minutes from great bars and restaurants.

Enjoyed dinner - squash quinoa risotto was delicious as was the wine.

Breakfast was lovely, lots of options and everything was delicious.

Great breakfast, spacious rooms, and very centrally located !

Very basic rooms and very good breakfast buffet included.

Breakfast starts nice and early 06.30 and offers varied dietary options.

The staff are courteous and helpful and the breakfast was fine.

Adequate breakfasts obviously catering for frequent bus tour clients with no frills easy clean dining area.

The hotel was very comfortable, breakfast buffet was wonderful, and is less than 5 minute walk to shopping area in town.

Everyone is nice, rooms are spacious and comfortable, breakfast is excellent!

Two blocks from the main street, nice room, pretty good breakfast buffet, service was generally helpful.

The breakfast was excellent, and the evening meal we had was very good (excellent wine).

We stayed here two nights
Staff was super nice and accommodating 
Hotel is charming and close to the main pedestrian shopping and Restuarant’s
They serve a wonderful breakfast ( ours was included in price) and they have a great gift shop
We even played ping pong for free!

Hotel Kosten Aike was great, breakfast had a good selection, the staff was very friendly and spoke enough English to absolutely help.

Staff were friendly and helpful, the rooms and public areas spacious, and the breakfasts provided a good mix of drinks and eats.

Breakfast was excellent and brilliant that was included in with the room.

However, it's very loud when you open the windows, which then impacts your sleep quality.

I was really disappointed with this hotel, it looks lovely on the outside, the corridors are nicely decorated and smell nice and then you open your hotel room door and are hit by a terrible smell in your bathroom - which is of sewage and damp.

A quaint touch is that you have to use a real key (not the card type) to open and lock the room door.

If we kept windows open for ventilation we heard loud music and  people yelling and car doors slamming from the activity at the bar.

Yes, you keep your windows open (no screens is not a concern to us!).

If you open the windows there are no screens and all the mosquitos visit your room.

We go to the room and there were no perfume sticks in it and the strong smell was still there even with the windows open.

(Note: the spa aera only opens at 3pm, so no early morning workout,

However, the hotel would not lend me an opener to open beer bottle unless I paid $5 which was more than cost of the beer.

The other issue to note - the hotel will charge you 50 pesos simply to open a bottle of wine at the bar - a total ripoff!

Also not sure if there was any airconditioning as our room was rather hot and hence we had to open the window, and got the noise.

There seems to be a dog kennel in the back, so if you like to have your windows open, request a room on the street,

While this isn't really a problem in Calafate (just open a window) there is a bar/hostel across the street from the hotel, so if you're opening a window you're also being kept awake until late in the evening which may be annoying if you need to wakeup at 6am to go on a tour, hike on a glacier etc.

There was no hand lotion in the bathroom and no coffee/tea maker in the room for those guests that rise before the restaurant opens for breakfast.

The only downside is that they use a rather strong cleaning solution in the rooms so you need to open the windows for a bit after the cleaning people come through.

Jacuzzi could be open a little lter as often we got back late in the evening and it was already closed.

My wife spent the night with her head mostly out of the open window in our room.

although we did hear car, trash truck  and neighborhood noise if we left our window open.

Due to the lack of AC (not really needed in EC), windows need to be open which allows the street noise in.

Bad sleep due to heat and fact that if we left window open insects came in!!

Our room was quite hot so we had to leave the Windows open.

Our open window, because the room was warm, didn't help the situation.

becaue of street noise (occasional cars and motorcycles) we couldn't leave our window open, so I didn't sleep well.

though soundproofing is poor, not great for light sleepers.

The one bad thing I’d have to point out, is that the wifi connection was very very poor.

I had a poor night’s sleep as the bed was very uncomfortable and my back was sore and stiff in the morning.

Breakfast quality was really poor, the worst of the 3 hotels we stayed during our visit to Argentina by far - I pretty much skipped everything except for the coffee.

This hotel is good if you don't expect too much, as the food is very poor and the Wi-Fi is terrible

Noise insulation was poor, as noted in most hotels we stayed in during our 5-days stay in argentinian Patagonia.

but within walking distance to shops, restaurants etc.

Location is two blocks from restaurants and shops.

Nice, simple clean hotel with a friendly staff - Not a 4 star for european standards : a 3+ stars - placed near the town centre - good breakfast - not tested the restaurant - good shop inside with hand made goos a really good price

The Hotel Kosten Aike in Calafate is a beautiful Patagonian hotel, with good breakfast included and excellent service, it’s right in the city center, it has a restaurant and a gift shop store.

We stayed at this hotel and is only 2 blocks from the main road where shops and restaurants are located.

Location is very good; just a few blocks away from the main street of El Calafate with numerous restaurants and shops.

There is a souvenir shop in the lobby that has very good prices when compared to shops outside.

We also enjoyed talking to the woman who ran the gift shop and knitted many of the items.

This hotel is perfectly located a couple blocks from down town, a easy walk to shops and restaurants!

but central and close to all the restaurants and shops.

Close to the Main Street with shops and restaurants, so you can walk everywhere.

they also feature a small gift shop. we had 2 rooms, room 305(?)

It was a in great location, within walking distance to all of the shops and restaurants on the main street.

This is a lovely hotel with large clean rooms and very well situated in town and near all shops and restaurants.

and the best location, just a walking distance from restaurants, markets, shops, cafes, etc.

The hotel is well located for shops and restaurants.

There is a terrific ice cream shop two blocks down on the main Street.

The hotel is centrally located to everything and a quick two block walk to the Main Street.

Reasonable walk to Lago Argentino, as well as the wildlife reserve.

The hotel is situated 2 blocks form the main street, being only a short 5 min walk to the centre.

Nicely located in town with an easy walk to shopping, restaurants, ATMs, and the lake/nature preserve.

but close enough that it is only a very short walk to shopping and restaurants.

Its just 5 mins walk to the Main Street where there are a multitude of eating options available.

We were able to walk from the hotel to the waters edge and enjoy looking for birds and water fowl.

The hotel was just 2 blocks, a 5 minute walk from the centre of town, which has numerous bars and restaurants.

It is a 5min walk to the main street where you will find excellent restaurants from very inexpensive to expensive.

We walked into our room and thought we were in a suite as it is huge.

Well situated in the centre of the city and so easy to walk to restaurants.

Wall outlets for charging personal electronics was either of the European type c or the kind found in Australia / new Zealand as type I.  Centrally located in the small town so an easy short walk to the main shopping and restaurant areas.

It is also very close to the lagoon that you can walk around to see a nice selection of birds including flamingos.

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The Hotel Posada Los Alamos is near these landmarks: Lago Argentino, Glaciarium, Estancia 25 de Mayo, Laguna Nimez Reserva Natural Municipal, El Calafate Historical Interpretation Center, Avenida Libertador, Walichu Caves, Santa Teresita del Nino Jesus, Southern Spirit, Museo Argentino del Juguete, Calafate Fishing, Parque Anfiteatro del Bosque, Plazoleta Heroes de Malvinas, Casino Club - Calafate, Plaza De Los Pioneros, Hoya del Chingue, Museo Regional Municipal de El Calafate, Azules Arte en Turismo, Amayco Turismo y Expediciones, Patagonia Profunda, Cruceros MarPatag, Hielo y Aventura, Cal Tur Travel And Tourism, Cabalgata del Glaciar, Estancia Cristina, Calafate Mountain Park, Cerro Frias, El Calafate Tours by Say Hueque, Glaciar Sur, Yeti Ice Bar, Tangol El Calafate, Calafate Extremo, La Tienda de Vinos, Calafate Travel, GlacioBar, Criollos Turismo, Azul Latina - El Calafate, Patagonia Dreams, Aike Traslados, Enjoy!, Gigantes Patagones, South Road Patagonia Extrema, Puerto de Frutos, Tribus Del Sur, Chalten Travel Turismo, Chalten Travel Rent A Car, Southwind Experience, Arte Indio, Explora Calafate, TodoCalafate, Tangol El Calafate, Movete TPA Traslados en El Calafate y El Chaltén, Calafate Walking Tour, Luna Roja El Calafate, Howlanders - El Calafate tours-, Polar Bar, Superlimp Calafate, Tagle Servicios Turisticos, Tagle Servicios Turísticos, Mil Outdoor SA, Vellon Negro, Morresi Viajes, Hls Travesias, Always Glaciers, Primera Vivienda de El Calafate, Telares Andinos, Solo Patagonia S.A. Day Tours, Chacra Las Moras, Estetica EL Calafate, Traslados Calafate, Uco Wine Shop, Parque Provincial Península De Magallanes, Glaciar Turismo, Upsala Expediciones, Patagonia Night, Turismocalafate.com, Turismo Calafate, Terminal De Ómnibus El Calafate, Calafate Kayaks, Estancia 25 de Mayo, Shackleton Solo, Gooshe Aike, Cabalgata en Patagonia and Punta Walichu

Dinner was in the same restaurant (lunch was at the bar area of the hotel lobby, also incredible).

We had lunch at the Bar El Águila on the first floor of the main lodge.

The bar and restaurant is across the road from the reception areas (2) and bedrooms,

On one side was the reception, lounge area, a small (usually uninhabited) bar and some rooms; we had a room in this building.

The bar was fun and bartenders were very good.

There are many places to enjoy yourself including a couple of bars and restaurants.

The breakfast and bar across the street were my favorite part of the hotel.

We enjoyed the empanadas in the lobby bar and the Calafate cocktail!

Yet, when I walked 4 blocks away and had coffee at a cafe I was always able to get 3 bars.

Nice hotel bar in the Annexe, with lovely service / pleasant staff for a nightcap.

We didnot go to the bar and there is a golf course which we didn’t go to either

The hotel is located just five minutes walk from the main street which has all the shops, bars and restaurants.

You can also walk to Reservas Laguna Nimez, a nice bird sanctuary (bird watching)

Pro:
Good bed 
Restaurants and bar are really nice
Staff at the reception are helpful

Con: 
The wifi was terrible.

The lobby area is a great gathering place and the well-stocked bar is a great place to spend the evening if you didn't want to wander downtown (a 20 minute walk).

But the reception hall, the restaurants and bar are really nice, pleasant.

Facilities are great (restaurant, bar, swimming pool, golf course) and make you wish you would have more time to enjoy them.

Nice bar, golf course and swimming pool with jacuzzi, sauna and steam bath.

I loved the hotel location and the facilities (bar, spa, golf course,.  )

This is a beautiful hotel with beautiful rooms, excellent service with friendly staff, great breakfast and really enjoyed my stay here.

Breakfast is pretty standard with an omelette station if you can find the chef.

I was able to go get breakfast, which was incredible and I took full advantage of every day.

The restaurant including breakfast is in a nice complex across the street.

Nice rooms, good breakfast, nice pool with somewhat run down spa area.

Breakfast buffets were at the La Posta restaurant in the sport complex across the street.

Excellent breakfast, plenty of choice across a large buffet.

Breakfast--mediocre and in a separate facility.

The breakfast is very simple and don’t offer many options.

At night (closed during low season), eat at Kau Kaleshen, great family restaurant, amazing service and creative delicious courses, from start to dessert.

Fruit, cereal, and yogurt are also available for a healthier option.

Breakfast is also good and the rooms are authentic and functional.

Breakfast was well prepared and the amenities like pool and fitness center were very good.

Staff very nice and breakfast across the road next to the spa was as good as anywhere we stayed on our travels in South America.

We enjoyed good breakfasts and when we ate in the restaurant in the evening the staff were very attentive and the food and wine lovely.

Breakfast was adequate with longer hours than most hotels offer.

The amenities in bathroom were very poor.

We arrived at 8pm on New Years' Eve to find just one staffer at the registration desk and this poor guy was overwhelmed by demands from various guests.

but sadly despite two attempts they couldn't supply a rare steak that could be cut - very poor cut of beef.

When we arrived we were given a very poor room with two single beds that overlooked a dog pen at the back of the hotel.

Wifi was poor - i even asked at check in for a room with good wifi.

The hotel is old and the installations are poor, mainly if you consider the prices charged.

Considering the price it was a very poor value and choice.

Service utterly poor. Fried eggs (surcharge!)

After every shower the bathroom flooded (no idea why) and stayed wet for hours afterwards due to poor drainage.

Breakfast has poor quality and very little variety.

The poor and pricey restaurant competing with the much cheaper and much better ones down the block.

Welcome in the hotel as a result is poor and impersonal, a case of a generic feeling in a form and getting a key.

but again, they didn't have English speaking tourists for close to 20 months and you can fall out of practice with a language very quickly
  
The room was so lovely with a great bed, soft towels, and windows overlooking a grassy area of their grounds.

We had a light dinner one evening at the upstairs Humus Cocktail Bar where one had a view of part of the golf course.

Also worth noting that there is no view to speak of - just a nice looking hotel two blocks off the main town street.

It was very attractive with a high beamed ceiling, dark woodwork, interesting paintings on the wall, good lighting and a great atmosphere. One side had a glass wall that overlooked part of the 8-hole (yes, 8-hole!)

We highly recommend the restaurant in the evening for the Patagonia Lamb - stunning!

Our room was quite large with a view of the garden to the front.

My wife and I tend to prefer a more modern, clean hotel so our views could just be us.

The restaurant has a view on a golf yard!

We had a great a family trip to el calafate to visit Perito Moreno glacier and we really enjoyed our stay
Most of the stay was good except the 2 rooms we had booked both overlooked the rooftop of next bldg which was a irritating 
Good breakfast at the property and helpful staff as well..

With large windows with a view to the golf course, it is very relaxing.

but my room had a "street view" with noises from cars.

Overall, because when you are in town you will be preoccupied with seeing the sights and not be spending much time in the room so from a location point of view, I would recommend staying here.

Their restaurant Humus has a beautiful view and the food is good. ($$$).

though the equipment and location was good (overlooking the golf course).

The building has this very traditional mountain retreat atmosphere,

From this last point of view the location of the hotel was excellent, two blocks off the main street (which could have been quite noisy) yet within walking distance of all amenities, and also with nicely shaded grounds.

Convenient to walk into town is the only plus for the hotel.

The 30-year old hotel / resort consisted of an extensive complex just a short walk from the center of El Calafate.

Therefore, you feel that you are staying in a quiet and pleasant area, yet you have only a few minutes walk before you are in the centre of town.

Posada Los Alamos was very well situated 3 blocks off the main street of Avenida del Libertador, a 5-minute walk.

Excellent location, a two block walk to the main street of town, shopping and restaurants galore.

Location is a short walk to Main Street and the wildlife area.

Our room was clean, we appreciated the king-size bed, and it was a short walk to the main drag of El Calafate.

It has grounds where you can walk or sit as well.

You can walk from the hotel to everywhere in the town.

On the positive side, a short walk to the town.

A big supermarket is about 10 mins walk away.

Location: at a 5 min walk from the Main Street.

Location is central and easy to walk into the city of El Calafate. 5.

but rather average: rooms are small, missing features, paint is coming down from the ceiling in our bathroom, and you can hear through the wall when your neighbor goes to the toilet.

In the room there is no hook on the wall to hang the clothes, and there is a refrigerator

The walls are not very sound proof, so we could sometimes hear noises from the neighbours.

The walls are paper thin and you can hear people talking in the other rooms very distinctly !!!

Our only criticism was that either the walls are paper thin or we had the noiseless neighbours.

The rooms would most definitely benefit from thinker walls, air conditioning and a coffee machine.

Spots on the carpet scuffed walls very small.

Must agree with some comments about the noise levels in the rooms, Walls are quite thinly bricked and we could here people talking at times, could be a problem if you had loud guests next door.

Our tour only included twin beds, and the top-floor room developed a water leak from the wall into the bedroom, so there are clearly some maintenance issues in the hotel.

The instructions for use, on the wall, were translated rather amusingly into english and told us to rotate "the goatees" to fill the bath, which became a running joke for the rest of the trip!

- The walls are very thin, as I mentioned before it was low season

The rooms are tiny for the price that they charge and walls are bit porous.

I can see how some people have had problems with the noise transmitting through some thin walls in some parts of the hotel.

The shower was literally a few sheets of plastic in a corner of a wall.

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Breakfast was yummy with lots of homemade items.

Nice and clean rooms, beautiful lake view from the lovely garden and as bonus Frederico demonstrates his cooking talent with delicious dishes at very reasonable prices.

Breakfast was excellent (you can ask for an omelet) and we also had two good dinners there -- ask about their specialties.

Breakfast is rich and variegated, both salty and sweet, with some homemade products as jam, eggs, bread, cakes, yogurt and so on.

I had the lamb, the pasta carbonara and two days worth of lunch boxes and everything was so delicious.

From a delicious homemade breakfast to endless recommendations, Claudia and Federico are such a delight.

We decided to have 2 home cooked meals during our 3 night say and it was delicious and well priced.

My pasta with tomatoes, eggplant and bacon was simply heavenly (and reasonably priced too).

We’ve traveled extensively staying in boutique hotels and bed & breakfasts.

The breakfast is good with homemade breads and Frederico makes great scrambled eggs for a little extra.

We went to see the glacier and Claudia prepared a lunch with snacks that was delicious and plentiful.

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