The setting is beyond stunning. Utterly remote and peaceful with heroic views. The sitting and dining areas are beautiful and the food really good - brilliant breakfast buffet. Whoever recruits the staff is doing a fantastic job, they are bright, engaging, fun, enthusiastic - hard to praise them enough. The rooms are not particularly luxurious but entirely comfortable and very clean. But the setting is all ....... The trek/ride up to Laguna Azul is breathtaking - in more ways than one. This is one of the nicest places I have ever stayed.

This is one of the most extraordinary places we have ever been in our lives. It is in a . very remote place (4 hour drive, very bumpy dirt track, we heard of people which had two flat tires etc). Do not drive yourself. But anyway: we enjoyed such very special views, and very friendly and helpful staff. We did hikes and horse back riding. We have seen the most beautiful views ever. We enjoyed tasteful (modern) dinners. Not the usual Argentina big steaks. And after a long day we sat in front of a cosy open fire in the lobby. We will go back, but defintely bring some good novels.

We stayed at Helsingfors for 5 days at the beginning of our trip. We couldn't have found a better location to get away from it all, it is very remote! We did all the excursions on offer but were really looking for riding. Our favourite trip was a 9hr ride into the hills just us and our guide, the views were unbelievable, I couldn't stop taking photos. In fact, every excursion offered fantastic views.

They made a huge effort with the food although I think we would have preferred something a bit more rustic/local style with more red meat but that is personal preference. On our last night when we were craving a hearty meaty meal after 24km trek and the main was fish we only had to mention it and Justine the manager and she got it changed to Lomo for us which was fantastic! The staff were all fantastic and made a huge effort with everything with special mention for our guide Eberisto who was fantastic with the horses and the waitress Lucy.

What we hadn't appreciated in advance was that whilst they do their best to accommodate what all the guests want to do in terms of excursions they can be a bit restricted by the number of guides available so if there is something particular you want to do it might be best to arrange in advance. I think that's especially true if you are an experienced rider and want to do more challenging rides / want to go at a faster pace as the majority of guests aren't experienced.

All in all we had a fantastic time at Helsinfors and would recommend it in a flash.