Country Info
- Montevideo
- Capital
- Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
- Currency
- 3,360,105
- Population
- UY
- Country Code
Montevideo Slideshow
Top Hotels in Montevideo
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Radisson Victoria Plaza Montevideo
160 reviews -
Sheraton Montevideo
145 reviews
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Holiday Inn Montevideo
84 reviews -
NH Columbia Montevideo
95 reviews
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Four Points Montevideo
104 reviews
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Lafayette Montevideo
151 reviews
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Tryp Montevideo
121 reviews -
Los Angeles Montevideo
38 reviews -
Oxford Montevideo
20 reviews
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Crystal Palace Hotel Montevideo
34 reviews
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Days Inn Montevideo
24 reviews
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Cala di Volpe Boutique Hotel Montevideo
186 reviews
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Hotel Punta Trouville Montevideo
58 reviews
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Ibis Montevideo
236 reviews
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Balmoral Montevideo
52 reviews
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Continental Montevideo
3 reviews
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Hotel Tres Cruces Montevideo
43 reviews
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Pocitos Plaza Montevideo
63 reviews
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Hotel Europa Montevideo
43 reviews
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Ermitage Hotel Montevideo
106 reviews
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Armon Suites Montevideo
54 reviews
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Hotel Best Western Palladium Montevideo
46 reviews
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Hispano Montevideo
28 reviews
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Cottage Montevideo
20 reviews
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Hotel Aramaya Montevideo
11 reviews -
Posada Al Sur Montevideo
15 reviews
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Cottage Montevideo
1 review
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Hotel Arapey Montevideo
21 reviews -
Lancaster Hotel Montevideo
74 reviews
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Belmont House Hotel Montevideo
41 reviews
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Regency Golf Hotel Montevideo
55 reviews
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Iguazu Hotel Montevideo
66 reviews
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Regency Suites Montevideo
22 reviews
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Best Western Pedro Figari Montevideo
35 reviews
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Short Term Apartments Montevideo
1 review
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Alvear Montevideo
32 reviews
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Gran Hotel America Montevideo
5 reviews
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Apart Hotel Bremen Montevideo
18 reviews
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Splendido Hotel Montevideo
25 reviews
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London Palace Montevideo
31 reviews
Montevideo
Travel Blogs from Montevideo, Uruguay
A whole new country
This is a top pick! Pablo met me in the coach station in Montevideo, where it wasn't raining - or at least not as much. The next morning, he drove me around Montevideo showing me the sights and filling me in on the stories, both the public and personal (such as where he ...
3 cities, 4 airports, 1 long day
This is a top pick! ... may be another airport.) The flight was fine and Andrew even managed to get some sleep. We touched down in Montevideo, Uruguay at 10am thirty minutes after leaving Argentina, an hour on, and as our bags were checked straight through to Brazil ...
Lovely little Colonia, Uruguay
This is a top pick! ... to be finished classes though, and am looking forward to starting the fun stuff. Yesterday I took a day trip to Colonia in Uruguay. It was a strange little town, very quaint, quite touristy, but a nice change of pace after the bustle of Buenos Aires. ...
Montevideo - Day 30-31
This is a top pick! ... hostel, my first choice was fully booked so I a bit of a trek to another hostel which thankfully had a bed, the Hostel Montevideo. Spent most of the afternoon just wandering around the city. Visited the water front and the old town on this rather overcast ...
and this is the capital??
This is a top pick! ... economy crash as many rich Argentines banked their money here. I liked the romantic air of faded 19th century grandeur in Montevideo. Gorgeous restored early 19th C buildings stand right next to crumbling ruins in the old town and next to ugly modern ...
Interesting city...boring post
This is a top pick! ... . We'll are wrapping up our time in South America in one of it's most exciting and happening cities, Buenos Aires. She Said: Montevideo would be a great city to live in, assuming that you can speak Spanish. It is a big city with a "small town" ...
Met Celina for the day and got the shits
This is a top pick! ... during the whole day!! (Add bleeding ears to my list of ailments)! Celina took us on a mini guided tour of some areas of Montevideo before I had to head back to the hostel as I was feeling pretty bad. Lorna & Celina went to the bus station to get our ...
UMPA
This is a top pick! ... around the world. They always mixed up the Paraguayan and Uruguayan capital, and hence came up with UMPA. Short for; Uruguay, Montevideo, Paraguay, Asunción. After reading the magazine, I have for some reason always wanted to visit the capitals of these ...
Made it to ¨Youre-A-Gay¨ - Through the back door
This is a top pick! ... grab one when you get here, and easy. It was a 2 and a half hour journey to the Terminal Tres Cruces bus station in Montevideo. Upon arrival, we immediately found the street we were staying on (Av. 18 de Julio) and thought we would be at the hostel ...
3 months today!!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... for 3 months we had to renew our 90 tourist visa, so we decided to make a weekend trip out of it and head to Montevideo, Uruguay. We took a boat ride from Argentina to Uruguay and then a bus from Carmelo to Montevideo. We've decided that the best way to ...
Montevideo
This is a top pick! Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay and the last country on this trip. I plan on spending the last two weeks of my vacation relaxing on the famous beaches of Uruguay. Unfortunately, I do not have any more photos from my trip. I lost the last three ...
Montevideo
This is a top pick! Alex: Another early morning for the 2 and a half hour bus ride from Colonia to Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital, it also cuts the price in half of getting the boat to from Buenos Aires to Montevideo. After Buenos Aires, Montevideo had a decidedly small ...
Montevideo, Colonia and Fray Bentos
This is a top pick! Montevideo, the Quiet Capital We leave Buenos Aires on a super-fast ferry, arriving in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, in a little over three hours. As soon as we step off the ferry in Montevideo and begin our walk in to town, we realize how ...
Operation Gringo Hunter
This is a top pick! ... I had before on E-Bay...they're getting quite cheap, which is nice! So I left Buenos Aires a while back to come to Montevideo, Uruguay...a country I think nobody knows anything about. If you imagine Uruguay to be a poor, dirty, run down, backwards kind of ...
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'
This is a top pick! ... Quote from Morgan Freeman's character, Red, in The Shawshank Redemption. Great movie! And that's about what it's come to here in Montevideo. After a brief injection of life from a fun group of backpackers that came through a week or so ago, it got really ...
Fine, healthy looking mosquitoes
This is a top pick! MONTEVIDEO - CAPITAL OF URUGUAY – DRIZZLY RAIN - 31.10.09 It must have been Halloween because all the children in the city of Montevideo were dressed up in costume and carrying pumpkins to have filled with money and sweets. They were running ...
Happy Thanksgiving???
This is a top pick! ... previous post), I've appointed myself the entertainment manager as I need some excuse for a job to earn my free bed. So far Montevideo is OKish but high season is right around the corner so we'll see what that brings. Hopefully more blondes from Sweden. ...
Uruguay and back into Buenos Aires (Argentina)
This is a top pick! ... despite it being sunny, it wasn't very warm. The weather was then rainy and cloudy for the next 3 days whilst we travelled to Montevideo (the Uruguayan Capital) where we had a lovely hotel room, a nice meal and drinks all for less than 20 pounds... we're ...
Happy Halloween!
This is a top pick! ... pleasantly impressed with my first couple of days in Uruguay. I think I may have come across a hidden gem... in many ways I like Montevideo more than Buenos Aires. MV is clean, compact, has a small population of 1.5 million, has plenty of sights and the ...
Street Tango In Montevideo.
This is a top pick! "That sounds like Tango music!" I exclaimed as we neared a park in the centre of Montevideo, Uruguay. The sound of it was very fresh in our heads as it was only the previous night we had been to a tango show in Buenos Aries. Sure enough as we got ...
Montevideo - noise and rain
This is a top pick! After a plane trip via Buenos Aires, we touched down in Montevideo, Uruguay. Thankfully, the temperature is down the scale and so is the humidity meaning that my shirt does not stick to my back after five minutes walking. It certainly feels fresher. ...
Uruguay Elections
This is a top pick! ... evening and into the night, the noise continually building. Anyone would have thought that they had won the world Cup (or in Uruguay's case, at least a football match), and, I suppose, for the incoming president, financially at least, he probably had. It ...
URUGUAY LIFE
This is a top pick! ... exclamation marks could possibly not be exciting. To achieve proper setting, brush up on your quick Uruguay facts ... Uruguay. capital: Montevideo (1.5 million people there) arquitecture: beautiful, old. Montevideo has lots of big, smooth and white ...
Uruguay I'm okay
This is a top pick! ... can smell the market before you actually see it. It's a comforting blend of fire-seared meat and wood smoke. Formerly Montevideo's main food market, the Mercado of today is a barbecue headquarters, home to more than a dozen restaurants specializing ...
Montevideo
This is a top pick! Day 271 - 272 - Montevideo Two more days in uruguay's capital and while it lacks any 'must-sees' or 'must-dos', it's inexpensive shopping has kept us entertained. Perhaps too well entertained. It may only be October but the life of a backpacker ...
Nice Capital
This is a top pick! Another capital city to add to the list, although I am nothing like the Capital City Kid, but I do know that Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay, that`s where I am and that it is pronounced mon-te-vid-ayo NOT mon-te-video. The Ferry I had to leave BA ...
Montevideo and ferry to Buenos Aires
This is a top pick! ... day! Such an incredible way to start my day. In fact, it made the information given on our tour pale in comparison. Montevideo did absolutely impress me. We were given a private tour of their "White" House, which is a UNESCO world heritage building. ...
Day 4 - Un Dia inolvidable!!!
This is a top pick! ... up paying 24 pesos for a phone call that we should not have needed to make since we were calling long distance from Colonia, Uruguay to Buenos Aires, Arg. The reason for the call is that we need to give the airline and hotel two days advance ...