LOCATION
FAENAHOTEL+UNIVERSE is located in the El Porteño Building in the heart of Buenos Aires, Puerto Madero Este, a stone's throw from the Costanera Sur, the city's riverside promenade. The El Porteño Building is also home to 80 private residences.

The Jorge Newbery Domestic Airport is a 20-minute drive away and Ezeiza International Airport 40 minutes.

Faena Hotel + Universe right by Buenos Aires's financial centre, the Casa Rosada (or Pink House), and San Telmo, the city's oldest neighbourhood famous for its classical architecture, antique shops and tango bars.


ROOMS
Each of our 110 rooms is designed to offer our guests a unique experience in modern elegance. Inspired by Alan Faena and designed by Philippe Starck, the rooms are infused with the romance and decadence of la belle époque, while inspiring a sense of modernity and superior comfort.


EL BISTRO
The exquisite elegance of the Bistro's surroundings with its white and gold decor is ideal for savouring the very best of sophisticated international cuisine.

EL CABARET
El Cabaret has been especially created to arouse fantasy and sensuality. Its stage is framed by red gold-trimmed curtains, while the acoustic space has been specifically designed with live shows in mind. Intimacy and privacy is assured with El Cabaretâ€Ts capacity limited to an exclusive 140 people.


THE LIBRARY LOUNGE
The Library Lounge offers a homely, relaxed atmosphere, surrounded by books or lounging by the fireplace, for you to enjoy those unique moments:
a morning coffee, a healthy lunch,
a pause to read, an intimate conversation, a chance to put your
feet up or a long-awaited rendezvous.


EL TEATRO DEL FAENA
A space where passion, creative talent and all the genius of Buenos Aires work their magic in shows suffused with an atmosphere of unparalleled mistery, set amid tables, velvet curtains and leather armchairs.

EL MERCADO
Inspired by the European markets of old and the legendary cantinas of Buenos Aires, El Mercado offers sophisticated, top-quality natural fare. Enjoy appetizing traditional Argentinian cuisine by the warmth of a rustic adobe mud oven.

POOLBAR
A pool with great personality situated in a terraced garden, where our guests can relax while lounging poolside and enjoying our unique selection of treatments.
The Pool Bar offers fresh fruit juice and exotic drinks.

BUSINESS CENTRE
Our first floor Business Centre offers the perfect venue for meetings, fulfilling the needs of international executives and the local community. Its facilities include the services of assistants, laptops, databases and an extensive library.


PRESIDENTIAL SUITE
This majestic suite with spacious rooms and breath-taking views adds a unique flavour to any event. FAENA HOTEL + UNIVERSE has several exclusive residences for private meetings, available upon request.


THE CELLAR
The Cellar boasts the largest collection of wines in Argentina. Over five hundred labels of wine are stored within the brick walls of this sophisticated and elegant dungeon-like space. Original rough-edged cement ceiling and pillars are juxtaposed with a truly Starck-style chandelier that overlooks a large banquet table suitable for dinners and wine tastings.


SPA
HAMMAM - THE SPREADER OF WARMTH
The architectual remains of the Greek baths and the balnea inspired the smaller and more modest hammams of Islam. However, not until Muhammed himself enthusiastically recommended sweat baths around 60O AD did the Islamic hammam begin to proliferate.

Muhammad believed that the heat of the hammam enhanced fertility, and the followers of the faith should multiply. Until the hammam caught Muhammed's fancy, the Arabs used only cold water and never bathed in tubs, which was considered as bathing in one's own filth. But when the conquering Arabs encountered Roman and Greek baths in Syria, holy men immediately adopted the pleasure of hot air bathing.

The hammam gained religious significance and became an annex to the mosque, used to comply with the Islamic laws of hygiene and purification. The hammam developed into a quiet retreat--an atmosphere of half-light, quiescence and seclusion. Architectually, vaulted ceilings shrank as the buildings became smaller and modest.

As the lslamic faith spread, so did the hammam, which accounts for many still standing in lran, Asia Minor, and across North Africa from Egypt to Morocco. Before the Arabs were repelled by rebellious subjects, there were hammams in Moorish Spain and high up the Danube River. Conquered temples, churches and baths were often converted into hammams--as the Islamic religion itself accomodated Jews and Christians, the hammam was flexible. Like the Roman baths, the hammam became a place to socialize. The baths were one of the few places in Islam open to everyone from early morning to late night. Not only was the hammam pleasurable, but it also brought luck as this old adage claims:
"Whoever goes to the bath on forty consecutive Wednesdays will succeed at anything they do."


FOR THE SOUL
The Spa now offers a wide range of new activities, including a variety of treatments and exceptional therapies, such as Pranic Healing*: a revolutionary and comprehensive system of natural healing techniques that use the prana to cure or prevent various illnesses, improving your quality of life. Pranic Healing is intended as a compliment to, rather than a replacement for, conventional medicine.
* Prana is a Sanskrit word meaning â€o life force” , the vital energy that keeps the body healthy. Prana is the beginning that gives life to all things.



FOR THE BODY
The Spa offers an extensive range of treatments and activities to either vitalize and invigorate your body or to pamper and nuture it back to radiant health.



FITNESS CENTRE
Use of the fitness centre, hamman, sauna, pool and the relaxtion area is free to all guests staying at the hotel.