From outside, the hotel looks as the ordinary cold zone wooden house, it is however beautifully arranged inside (lobby area). It captures a style somewhere between a luxury John Wayne Alaska hotel and a frontier/trapper trade station, but the luxury way. Filled with gimmicks like fake deer antlers here and there, giant glass "crystals", crochet nit mushroom lamps(!), "shaman instruments". Very beautiful and interesting! The interior designers did a great job!
From 3rd floor you may look down at the other stories and the lobby.
Our room didn't have lake view, but still a nice view of a nearby mountain and the town. The room was also nice, large and clean, with bathtub, a large bed, appeared new.
Breakfast is nice but not exceptional, best thing was the freshly squeezed orange juice.
Only downside is that the hotel staff recommended the 500A$ tour to the glacier, where normal bus tickets are 255A$. Advice: if you want to see the glacier and have the boat tour, no ice walk, you may save yourself >500A$ by making your own sandwich (buy food in supermarket), taking a shuttle bus from the bus terminal, paying the 215A$ entrance and the 200A$ boat ride, if you want.
It seems to be the towns hidden agenda that the foreigners should pay extra at this most interesting but very overpriced tourist city, but still it doesn't change my full recommendation to stay at Esplendor Calafate, even if you (like me) doesn't care too much about decoration and architecture.