Argentina

Buenos Aires splits cleanly into neighborhoods with completely different characters — artsy San Telmo, leafy Palermo, touristy La Boca — and Recoleta is the one locals agree is the most desirable to actually stay in. Algodon Mansion sits there, in one of the city’s most elegant residential pockets. Hotel Mio is in the same neighborhood, and Porteños describe it as Argentine elegance brought up to date.

Hotel Pulitzer sits in Microcentro instead, close to the government and business buildings rather than the residential pockets — a different, more central base for a city built around its neighborhoods rather than a single downtown.