Alexander Hotel

Best location in town being right next to the bus stations to Iguazu Falls and other regions. HOWEVER, BEWARE !!! (see below)

BE VERY AWARE WITH HOTEL PAYMENTS !!!! Though has the best location, being right next to the bus station. I would really advise AGAINST booking with this property. The proprietors are NOT honest operators (imo) !!!! Foreigners avoid (by law) paying 21% VAT with foreign credit cards. I have no problem with all Argentinian hotels except this one. They had pre-authorised my foreign credit card with first day stay rate weeks before arrival with the 21%VAT included (receptionist required me to sign this payment upon check in, when one is tired and eager to complete the registration to settle into the room). When check out, they charged the remaining nights without the 21%VAT, however had a very difficult time to get them to refund the 21%VAT on the first they had pre-authorised and charged on arrival. Wasted lots of time for this complicated process of 2 separate payments (aiming to fool the guests with the 21% VAT and especially with different FX rate on 2 different days) and them refusing to adjust the VAT for the first night against the balance of the stay (plus on which FX rate ?? - logically should be the date when the payment was signed and authorised, but you see, when they had pre-authorised the payment weeks ago, the FX rate could be very different in those weeks !!, and they make extra profit on that issue as well). My gut feeling is that this act is rather deliberate, hoping that guests may not check the first payment amount on arrival against the balance to be paid at check out, as one might be pressed for time to catch the next transportation. They DO NOT (or pretend NOT to) speak any English and me using Google Translate, they still acted "puzzled" with the Google Spanish on my iPad, which clearly stated the they have been unfair with the way they charge.