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Don El Faro Boutique Hotel & Spa
€121.20/ Night
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A small contemporary boutique hotel and spa on the shore of Lake Nahuel Huapi in Villa La Angostura, Patagonia, with a lighthouse, a dock and lake-view rooms.
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Need To Know
- Around fifteen rooms and suites, including lake-view Deluxe Lago rooms with jacuzzis
- A contemporary lakefront boutique hotel and spa on Nahuel Huapi, in Villa La Angostura
- A private dock and lake beach, a lighthouse to climb, and a lake-view restaurant
- A spa with indoor jacuzzi, dry and wet saunas, and a seasonal outdoor pool (November to March)
- At the southern end of the Seven Lakes Route; kayaking, hiking and Cerro Bayo skiing nearby
- About 80km / one hour from Bariloche airport; a short drive from the village centre
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The lake — the hotel stands right on the shore of Nahuel Huapi, with a private beach and a dock; the water and the Andes fill the windows from nearly every room and the dining room.
- The lighthouse — the faro that gives the hotel its name, a tower you can climb for a sweeping panorama of the lake, the forest and the snow-capped mountains beyond.
- The rooms — around fifteen in all, contemporary and glass-walled with lake views; the Deluxe Lago rooms add a jacuzzi, and some a fireplace or a terrace over the water.
- The spa — an intimate wellness floor with an indoor jacuzzi, dry and wet saunas and a treatment room, plus a seasonal outdoor pool and solarium for the Patagonian summer.
- The setting — in Villa La Angostura, the Garden of Patagonia, at the southern end of the Seven Lakes Route, with kayaking, boating, hiking and skiing at Cerro Bayo close by.
Key Features
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€121.20 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Av. Siete Lagos 2345, Villa La Angostura, Neuquén, Argentina
Travel Info
El Faro sits on Avenida Siete Lagos on the shore of Nahuel Huapi, a short drive from the centre of Villa La Angostura at the southern end of the Seven Lakes Route. Bariloche airport is about 80km, an hour away; San Martín de los Andes lies at the route's far end. A car is best for the lake district.
Last Updated: 2026-06-15
Expert Review
Origins
El Faro takes its name and its character from the lake it stands on. Set on the shore of Nahuel Huapi in Villa La Angostura — the lakeside village known as the Garden of Patagonia, at the southern end of the Seven Lakes Route — it is a small, contemporary boutique hotel built to make the water and the mountains the whole point. Its architecture is deliberately simple and modern: clean lines, fine materials, and great walls of glass that bring the lake and the Andes indoors from nearly every room.
The name means "the lighthouse", and there is a real one: a tower you can climb for a sweeping panorama over Nahuel Huapi, the forest and the snow-capped cordillera beyond. Below it, the hotel runs to around fifteen rooms and suites, all facing the water — from the Lago Superior rooms to the larger Deluxe Lago rooms, which add a jacuzzi and, in some cases, a fireplace or a terrace over the lake. A private beach and a dock run down to the water's edge, and the lake-view restaurant turns the flavours of Patagonia out to the same endless view.
What it offers is calm and setting rather than grand scale. There is a spa — an indoor jacuzzi, dry and wet saunas, a treatment room — and a seasonal outdoor pool and solarium for the summer; and all around is the lake district at its loveliest, with kayaking and boating from the dock, hiking and biking in the forests, the myrtle woods of Los Arrayanes nearby, and skiing at Cerro Bayo in winter. It is a quiet, modern, view-filled base for the southern end of the Seven Lakes — and a lakefront counterpoint to the region's remoter forest lodges.
Top Secret
The clue is in the name. El Faro — the lighthouse — has its own tower, and climbing it is the thing to do at least once during a stay: from the top the view opens out across the whole sweep of Nahuel Huapi, the islands and inlets, the dark line of the forest and the snow-capped Andes rising behind. Time it for sunset, when the light goes gold and pink over the water and the lake turns still; it is the best vantage point in a hotel that is all about the view, and the photograph everyone takes home.
The Review
El Faro is among the loveliest small hotels on Lake Nahuel Huapi, and its appeal is simple: setting, calm and the view. It is a contemporary boutique hotel of around fifteen rooms on the lakeshore in Villa La Angostura, at the southern end of the Seven Lakes Route, built almost entirely of glass so that the water and the Andes are present from nearly every room. With a private beach, a dock and the lighthouse tower that gives it its name, it makes the lake the heart of the experience.
The rooms are modern, light and lake-facing, the best of them — the Deluxe Lago — with jacuzzis, fireplaces and terraces over the water; the spa has an indoor jacuzzi, saunas and a treatment room, with a seasonal outdoor pool for the summer; and the lake-view restaurant and bar serve Patagonian cooking to the same panorama. It is intimate and unhurried, run more like a serene private lake house than a large hotel.
It suits couples and lovers of the outdoors who want scenery, quiet and wellness over nightlife or grandeur — a place to slow down, swim, kayak and watch the light move on the lake. Villa La Angostura's restaurants and the Los Arrayanes woods are close, the Seven Lakes drive begins at the door, and Cerro Bayo offers winter skiing. For a calm, view-filled lakefront stay in the heart of the lake district, it is hard to beat.
