The Llao Llao hotel welcomes the Obama family. The landmark luxury hotel Bariloche is full security these days but also guests who will share Thursday with President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, when resting between the Andes and South crystalline lakes.
Although everything was ready in the presidential suite Nahuel Huapi, located on the first floor of the Ala Bustillo Hotel, the Obama chose the Ala Moreno, the most modern sector of the hotel which was opened in 2007 and there will be accommodated during the day in the Royal suite, presidential seconder.
He moved by helicopter from the airport to the hotel helipad. From the air, Obama can see the vastness of Lake Nahuel Huapi, one of the largest in Northern Patagonia with 557 m2, and descend a few steps from Lake Moreno, on the helipad of the hotel that has 77 years of history and was devised from its beginnings as a “tourist pole high-end” where currently 30% of its guests are frequent and a similar figure only comes to vacation hotel for the variety of activities that account without going through the city or other attractions.

How is the suite where they will stay

Obama opted for the more modern and spacious hotel sector, which has 43 rooms joined a historic building by a glazed tunnel. In the same room we stayed Brazilian Lula Da Silva during the Unasur Summit in 2009.
From there you will have the stunning view of Lake Moreno and background to Tronador, the highest in the region with high mountain glaciers. In this suite of 130 m2 Obama will have a bedroom with fireplace, bathroom with double Jacuzzi and sauna, dressing room, and a spacious living room with fireplace, kitchenette, toilet and air conditioning.
The Llao Llao hotel was designed by architect Alejandro Bustillo in 1938 with 163 rooms, wide aisles and a sweeping staircase, he suffered a raging fire within two years after it opened and had to be rebuilt again, this time with less wood and more stone in its structure and facade.
At that time the splendor that he wanted to give the new hotel, the famous French decorator Jean-Michel Frank was hired to perform the decor of the rooms and halls of the building next to the prestigious Comte house dedicated to the design, based in Buenos Aires.
In Bariloche also developed in those years other buildings such as the Civic Center, who designed the architect Ernesto Estrada in 1940, the Mobility building Nahuel Huapi National Park (located on the waterfront) and the Chapel San Eduardo, which can be observed from the terrace of the presidential suite, the latter two also designed by Bustillo.
Despite the remoteness from big cities, Bariloche already had the railroad was bringing passengers from Buenos Aires, in a long journey of two days and had paved the Bustillo Avenue in its entirety to the Llao Llao hotel to facilitate access to families coming on vacation.

The enhancement of Llao Llao

In 1940 the hotel was renovated by National Parks (original owner of the hotel) and then counted on a golf course with 9 holes, casino chips nacre, branch of the National Bank inside, luxury apartments and a floor intended for babysitters who came with aristocratic families on vacation winters and summers. The rest of the year was closed.
The hotel had a pause in activity between 1978 and 1993, when he was alone with home and watchmen who cared goods although many perdieron- until its reopening in private hands and on July 3, 1993.
Llao Llao looks today renewed because in 2007 the Ala Moreno, the most modern sector of the establishment with 43 rooms, one of them a luxury suite presidential seconder added. It also acquired the concept of “resort” expanded the golf course to 18 holes and the select group joined The Leading Hotels of the World Ltd., a prestigious luxury hospitality organization that gathers the most glamorous hotels in the world.

Presidents around the world

For rooms and corridors they became presidents around the world. They stayed here in addition to the Eisenhower (1960) and Bill Clinton (2007) US; Chinese Hu Jintao (in 2004) and in 2009 were simultaneous 13 Latin American presidents who attended the Summit of Unasur as Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Alvaro Uribe, Lula Da Silva, Michelle Bachelet, Tabaré Vázquez, Cristina Kirchner, among others.
Last year also was the American President Jimmy Carter and the V Ibero-American Summit was held at the hotel in 1995 transited the halls and corridors King Juan Carlos of Spain and Fidel Castro, though none stayed at the hotel.