We just came after staying for five days. The hotel is not a luxury hotel, but it is very reasonabily priced and new. The room was basic, but very nice. The bathroom was clean and well equiped.
The breakfast was complete and the service was very good.
The area of Recoleta is a very nice area to be in the city, easy to get to and very confortable to walk, shop or visit places in the city.
THis hotel is a great option in the area.
You will be able to find good place to eat and shop nearby the hotel, it is just a couple of block from Santa Fe street and Callao.

My wife and I had a really great experience in Buenos Aires and at the Bel Air Hotel. The room was very clean and well maintained during our entire visit. The room was located in the back of the hotel with a window on a central courtyard. No view but VERY QUIET. Perfect for resting between excursions out to explore the city. The front desk staff was most helpful in arranging excursions and an airport remis. Most spoke adequate English. A complementary breakfast buffet was provided and although not extravagent was very good. The location is great on the southern edge of the Ricoleta district. The famous Ricoleta cemetery and associated night club district is about a 10 minute walk. We actually walked all the way from the Casa Rosada back to the hotel one evening in about an hour. It would have been nice to be a few blocks closer to a subway station but it was close enough for us. We always felt very safe and secure both in the hotel and in the surrounding area, any time of day or night. WiFi internet access was provided free of charge and worked perfectly from our room. There is a great Italian resturant (Teodoro) a few doors down from the hotel that we really enjoyed as well. The only negative item that we could think of was that the Expedia web site showed a picture of a swimming pool that was not at the hotel. We really didn't miss it though and the hotel was perfect for what we wanted. A reasonable, clean and enjoyable place to sleep and rest after exploring the city.

My husband and I just returned from a week's stay at the Bel Air Hotel and would definitely stay there again for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the first is the location, a block away from the Avenida Santa Fe, one of the major shopping streets in Buenos Aires. We were in a beautiful neighborhood, full of lovely shops and restaurants, and within walking distance of many of the sights in the Recoleta district. We were also short distances away from other neighborhoods and got back and forth easily, through good chunks of BA, by radio taxi.

The outside of the hotel is very 19th century, Belle Epoque, while the inside has much more of a hip, modern ambiance. The staff were young and very helpful with all our questions and requests, the buffet breakfast (complete with CNN in Spanish - great way of improving your language skills !) was excellent and, for those who want it, there's a small computer area and gym on the premises as well.

Only possible downside: our room, although well furnished with everything you could need (necessary toiletries, mini-bar, a safe), was a bit small and spare. Neither of us are large people but we were a BIT cramped. The "view" consisted of looking outside at an inner shaft with great vistas of our neighbors' windows. Still, we were hardly in the room so all of the other positives outweighed the negative.

The Avenida Arenales, on which the hotel is located, is a street divided between baby stores and luxurious interior design shops with beautiful displays so for those travelers interested in seeing how another country presents itself, one would be in paradise !!

We loved the Bel Aire Hotel situated in central BA near wonderful shops and restuarants. The room we had was large, clean and comfortable; booked at a very reasonable rate. A restaurant shares the ground level, with large picture windows to the street. We thought the restaurant's food was quite good, as was the service, also inexpensively priced.
(If you don't speak/read Spanish, a Spanish/English dictionary would be helpful as this restaurant, and most others, do not translate the fare into English.)
The Bel Aire's employees were very helpful with recommendations of sights/restaurants/etc. However, I would caution that if you need to get a taxi to the airport, it be made clear by you which airport is needed, as the front desk assumes tourist want the international airport-Ezeiza, not the domestic airport or Aeropark-located in the city.