We have just returned from a 4 nights trip to San Pedro Viejo Hotel de Campo or Estancia San Pedro Viejo in north Cordoba area. We feel that we must share our incredible experience. The place where the hotel is located is just magnificent and we have never experienced such incredible service before. Caranday palms, hills and rivers paint an unforgettable photo, and what a sky!!!!!
We arrived there not loving horses too much and we leave San Pedro feeling in love with those amazing Peruvian Paso Horses. We really do not have enough words to describe how charming and peculiar are them. I wont ever forget my love De Niro, my friend Tony, wont ever forget his love Lulu...
From many others experiences in there, we must recommend 2 of them. The riding with Agus( One of the most well prepare managers we met, and for the girls here, one of the more handsome man they have ever met) and Chachi one of the lovely's ridings guides of the staff, to a typical Estancia Puesto that they call Puesto San Carlos is an amazing cultural trip. After a hard but lovely riding we arrived to an adobe ranch, and in that incredible place we eat the better picada ever been made... We end our journey with a delicious Malbec that we still cant understand from where it comes...
The other..., a trip with Agus and Ceci (his wife, and now we boys must say that she is more than a typical Argentinean good-looking girl) to the Salt Lake of Salinas de Ambargasta. Uffffffff...., Outstanding and Beautiful!!!!, Like a country of salt, all paint in white with the most beautiful sunset, and what can we tell about that moon in there..., My goodness!!!!!!. Some of us must confess that we immediately start crying..., when we return to the place where Agus and Ceci leaves us, we find an incredibly charming table on the salt, with a lovely fire, great red wine and a delicious lamb...
We are now on our way to B.A, but we felt the absolute need to write this review. San Pedro Viejo will be forever in our hearts, and also the people that we met there
Viva to the gauchos!!!!!

Welcome to the Fodor's Argentina forum, ArgentinaExpert!

I'm sure all forum members and readers look forward to the rest of your trip report, which I hope will include other comments about our country, besides your "incredible experience" at San Pedro Viejo.

yes, if we don't hear about other experiences, one might think that we smell an ad.....

First posting ever. Raves about a particular hotel. And calls himself "ArgentinaExpert."

I think not.

Another advertisement.

Well, I DID try to be polite to a newcomer!

Just for travelers like us, and not for the forum "owners". We will continue sharing our steps here in this incredible land on TA. We are really happy at this days, knowing amazing places, amazing people and eating amazing food. We apologize with you 3, Argentina Forum Owners, please..., trying to be polite people..., get a life!!!
We just arrived to an incredible hotel in Palermo, Vitrum and from here we found your comments. Really we choose to enjoy our night here at Palermo.

If you post on TA with a similar first-time post simply extolling one hotel, then you are likely to get the same cynical reactions there. Please understand that many businesses log onto these forums pretending to be individuals in clear violation of forum rules. It's up to the forum participants to be watchdogs for what really are ads.

This forum is excellent and I do not feel anyone thinks is the boss or owner.
I checked the web site of the estancia Pedro Viejo and indeed looked lovely.

Updating...Skate: We understand you, but what Tengo wrote, just was kind rude to read. Following AV counsel we will update our trip report. Grazz5b, we also believe that Fodors its a great way to plan a trip, but we receive a hard reaction for our first post. We don´t know much about forums rules, we only want to wrote about a nice experience, and we suppose that writing about those experiences was allowed in forums.
Now updating, Before North Cordoba we were in Salta city and Purmamarca which we loved.We all bought terrific "ponchos", all of them red and black with de Salta colors, as we been told. We eat there a regional plate, "humitas" my goodness, my girlfriend Deb claim for a recipe... Now staying in B.A, at Vitrum in Palermo. Yesterday we went out to have dinner in a place that we liked very much indeed, Te Mataré Ramirez was it. We only have 2 more nights to enjoy, we were thinking to visit Tigre or maybe La Boca. What you think, a night on Tigre River or in La Boca???
Its worthy to visit Colonia in Uruguay???

Posted an identical posting on TA. Also a first posting. Title is ArgentinaExpert but asks questions about Tigre and La Boca?

Perhaps I am just a skeptic, or the poster chose a really inapplicable screen name. Nevertheless, I think a dose of skepticism remains in order.

With respect to "rules" for posting, there really aren't any. Thus, comments by all of us are what keeps the board working.

Divierte su tiempo en la argentina.

Hi, tengohambre!

I cannot find the "identical posting on TA." you mention. Can you help? Or has it already been deleted?

I agree the screen name is strange, but I feel that's the forum member's privilege.

One of the many privileges of other forum members, on the other hand, is to remain skeptical of this post or not.

Of course there are rules for posting and they can be found here: http://www.fodors.com/forums/faqs.cfm#Q1A

The rule which may or may not apply in this case is the following: "Please respect the integrity of Fodors.com and our forums, and find another way to advertise your business or organization."

We are all trying to calm ourselves down..., I mean me and my group. Really we cant understand why we have to give a lot of explanations to the "older forum members" Are you some kind of "Forum Masters"?? or Fodors Owners???. We choose our screen name because I was the one, who must get all the info 4 our trip and I don´t do it, so my friends put that name on me..., so obviously I AM NOT an EXPERT about ARGENTINA!, IF I WERE ONE, I would not be loosing my precious time asking things that only a COMPLETE STRANGER can ask...
Our lonely planet is full with info about Tigre and La Boca, but we thought that maybe some local people could advice us better...,
We all learn some Spanish at school, and truly..., writing "divierte su tiempo en la Argentina" is almost a joke..., We are so furious, that we ask to the forum managers to allowed us to say that you are not only hungry, you are a little bit unhappy also...
Done with you. For the last, OH YES we post the same thing on TA, and OH YES it was also our first post!!!
¿Is that a crime in here?

The TA posting is found under the name of the hotel. As a review of the hotel.

IMHO, after reading the OP's review of San Pedro Viejo on TA
http://tinyurl.com/d9l59b
I find the initial post above much more credible.

I apologize for my skepticism.

sorry, but I remain a bit skeptical. The poster says, "we all learn a little Spanish in school," and yet he / she puts a question mark before and after his sentence, which suggests a native speaker to me, and also home city on TA is listed as "Buenos Aires."

ArgentinaExpert, we are all just posters like you and part of life on these forums is a bit of give and take, some not always particularly pleasant, about what people post.....

I partially agree with you, skatedancer.

The question marks are a very interesting point.

However, I felt the review on TA was more realistic than the initial post here, which is why I apologized.