Being for business or pleasure, I spend ca. 60% -70% of my time in hotels. I can say without hesitation that my week-plus stay at the Casa Palermitano was the best home-away-from-home experience I've ever had.
You are greeted by a long staircase, that lead you to Lorena and her 5 rooms. Big, airy rooms, giving you the old times flair but with immaculate modern times facilities. You always expect TV and air conditioning, and you certainly get them here, but you also get huge and shiny new bathrooms and truly comfortable beds, not to mention wireless DSL for free, all over the place.
The breakfast is a chapter in itself. At the Palermitano, orange juice is made for you direcly on the spot- something you don't easily find at the most sophisticated hotels. Pastries, marmelades, and dulce de leche, cheese and ham. And if you are up to it, you can have all this washed down with mate (disclaimer: though I live in Germany, I am uruguayan: mate and "facturas",those argentinean pastries, are my dream of a perfect breakfast.)
And finally, Lorena and her crew go to all extremes to ensure your overall stay is a success. From getting you a cab, to waiting for late arrivals -or waking up for early departures, as in my case!- you name it, they make sure you get it. Lorena even facilitated my last night stay, even being that there were no rooms available!
And when I think that for a full 8 day stay, I payed what in Europe would get me two nights on an annoying corporate cubicle -and that most likely without breakfast nor WiFi.... it is hard to think of a better place to stay.
Come in alone or with the family. Palermitano *is* as good as all those reviews. Even better, I'd say.

My husband and I just came back from a 10 day vacation in Argentina and Chile. When We first arrived to Buenos Aires, We stayed at Palermo Viejo BB for 3 days before our trip to Iguazu Falls. When we came back from Iguazu, we stayed in Buenos Aires for one night before heading to Chile. We decided we wanted to stay in a different bed and breakfast to try something different. We stayed at Casa Palermitano because of the great reviews in trip advisor and We can tell you that we totally regreted not staying here the first 3 days. The rooms are very very nice, the bathroom is big and new. The owners are just amazing!! They took care of us like we were family. We were leaving at 6 am the next day and they prepared us a very nice breakfast that early in the morning. We were so happy that we wanted to stay one extra night in our way back from Chile but they were booked. The place is getting great reviews by a lot of people and that is making them very popular which is good for them. We are giving them a 5 because we felt much better there in the only 13 hours we spent there than the 3 days in Palermo Viejo BB.