One cannot say enough good things about Helsingfors! Most of all, the staff makes you feel like you are visiting family. The house itself has a warm and inviting feeling. The building has a cozy common area in front featuring a wood fire that the staff constantly attends to. There is a bar that provides refreshment at any time. The dining area is intimate and provides a beautiful view over Lago Vedma.

However, it is the staff that makes Helsingfors the wonderful place that it is. Of course, they tend to your every need, but they do so out of genuine concern and friendliness. Chef Nicholas prepared amazing dishes and was exceptionally accommodating to special requests. The server and bar tender, who was also named Nicholas, has a great personality and was consistently attentive in providing refreshments, tending to the fires, and serving the meals. Arianna did a great job keeping the facility clean, comfy, and inviting. And finally, Justina was amazing at keeping everything running smoothly as well as being the guide on several of the excursions.

The highlight of the trip was the horse ride and trek to Lago Azul. The scenery will leave you breathless, especially when you crest the ridge and Lago Azul first comes into view. This area is a photographers dream. Damian, the horse handler, and Justina, our guide for the day, did a great job ensuring that we were able to enjoy this experience at our own pace without ever feeling rushed.

If genuine, inviting, and comfortable hospitality in an amazingly beautiful part of the world is what you seek, you will find no better experience than Helsignfors.

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.