Mendoza Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

Although sad to leave Puerto Madryn I was incredibly happy to be hopping on the bus up to Mendoza. Having researched it before the trip I knew it would be a blissful few days of drinking wine and eating beautiful food in the warmer climes of mid- Argentina. However I didn´t expect to have the immense bus journey experience we ended up having: le...

It is a great day in Mendoza, 75 deg Just had lunch and have been studying Spanish. Jeff www.motionPHR.com Personal health record for travelers on your iPhone.

Early wakeup today to travel without too much heat and avoid crowds at the vineyards around Mendoza. First lesson to learn in Mendoza - you need coins when you get on the bus. In the city they cost $1.10, and to get to Maipu its $1.40 (bus 173), and preferrably the exact change. If you put more the machine keeps it, and if you dont have any the ...

Charlotte has downed blog-writing tools and foisted a guest editorship upon me (ie Ben). In part due to someone´s observation that "she plans the trip, speaks all the Spanish, does the driving, writes the blog - what does he do?." Humour, dear boy. 26 December Tedium of a 20-hour coach journey from Bariloche to Mendoza (both in Argentina) broken...

We left Patagonia by air, flying 1400 miles north, over fjords and glaciers, past forests and through clouds, until we reached the valley of Santiago, where the mountains disappeared as we descended into the smog. We voiced our appreciation and ate our best on Thanksgiving, then headed towards the friendlier airs of Valparaiso, a couple of hours...

OK, so on the most important day of the year and my 11 month anniversary for travelling I visited a few bodegas and sampled a few wines. Here I present to you, courtesy of The Grapevine, a questionnaire to determine what kind of wine drinker you are! ...1... You doze off on the train and wake up to discover a wine bottle bag next to you, left be...

Saved time by travelling on another over night and day bus and arrived in Mendoza 9pm. The landscape is pretty flat with endless dry, dusty bush (pampas) between the Andes and the Atlantic - so are not missing anything. The Bus journeys are quite sweet, we get breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and this time a game of bingo! The prize was a bottle...