Buenos Aires and the A Hotel

We arrived into Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport at 5pm, right on time. LATAM Air proved more than good with their dream liners and semi decent food.
In the queue for immigration we met Judy and David who initially looked us up and down and then couldn’t quite believe after “backpacking” we were on the same boat as them to the Falklands etc! They also couldn’t believe it when we told them the actual price of a taxi to the city ($40) because their travel agent had made them a booking.... for $120!!! They kindly offered to share their v expensive car but we headed off as planned and passed them waiting for theirs as we got into our Taxi Ezeiza.
We had a v efficient 40 min run into the city and were outside our hotel by 6.20pm.
The A Hotel was actually better than expected seeing it was $50 per night so we were pleasantly surprised.

https://ahotel.com.ar/?lang=en

After a quick unpack we headed 2 blocks down, found an ATM for some local pesos and then found a cafe for a coffee and a pastry before heading back to our room.
Uber is illegal in BA, the local taxis can be scammers so we downloaded “Cabify” and ordered a car for 02.10am.
We couldn’t find any paperwork that indicated we had paid for 2x 15kgs luggage on tmrws flight to Ushuaia so I called the Auckland office who kindly confirmed our booking was showing the luggage but we must have it in 2 x bags under 15kgs and not just one bag of 20kgs which we both had- shit!
Now it was a frantic repack into our hand luggage bags so they could be checked in with as much weight as possible to get our main bags under weight.... without compromising the wine!!!
We finally got into bed at 10.30pm with the alarms set for 1.40am!!Leggi altro