The Romina hotel is a family business that opened its doors, in the city of Villa Gesell, in the summer of ´72. Its owners, of Spanish and Italian origin, chose their daughter's name to call it. It is a pioneer in the region, it was built along with the Aquarium (you can still visit what is left of it, in the same block on Paseo 139) and the old Bus Terminal (Avenida 3 and Paseo 140), today Cultural Center and Craft Walk. Both were located in the southern zone on the initiative of Don Carlos Idaho Gesell, the founder of the city. He wanted Villa Gesell to also populate there, in the southern zone, since in those years the buildings were distributed only in the center and north of the city. The Aquarium belonged to Roberto Gesell, son of the founder of the Village, and at that time was one of the most important in South America.
During the summer of 2007, the “South resto-art” worked at hotel. Celeste Carballo, Jorgelina Alemán and the mythical In, among other Argentine musicians, passed through their small stage. There were also street performers who in the afternoon entertained adults and children with circus juggling and putting on. And there was no shortage of the plastic artists who, by the hand of the Teresa Nachman march, hung their works on the walls of the “South resto-art”. Today it is Romina, journalist and actress, who runs the hotel and takes care that it is absolutely related to art. Each room has a picture of the plastic artist Martín Villalba, and in the back of the Villalba hotel he painted a beautiful mural that can be seen from the beach. The rooms were set by decorator Emilia Miramont.