Country Info
- Montevideo
- Capital
- Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
- Currency
- 3,360,105
- Population
- UY
- Country Code
Uruguay Slideshow
Top Hotels in Uruguay
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Carmar Club Resort Hotel Punta del Este
3 reviews -
Casino Oceania Montevideo
1 review -
Hotel Klee Montevideo
16 reviews
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Hotel Royal Colonia del Sacramento
9 reviews -
Gran Hotel Paysandu
7 reviews
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Hotel Yeruti La Paloma
11 reviews -
London Palace Hotel Punta del Este
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Hotel Palacio Montevideo
98 reviews -
Richmond Hotel Montevideo
3 reviews
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Hotel Beltran Restaurant Colonia del Sacramento
12 reviews
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Hotel Uruguay Brasil Rivera
17 reviews
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Hotel Palma De Mallorca La Paloma
15 reviews
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La Posta Del Cangrejo Punta del Este
22 reviews
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El Mirador Hotel and Spa Colonia del Sacramento
49 reviews
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Argentino Hotel Casino Piriapolis
81 reviews
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Del Norte Artigas
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Hotel Rambla Parque del Plata
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Amsterdam Punta del Este
55 reviews
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Suizo Punta del Este
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Hotel Presidente Montevideo
1 review
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Hostal del Sol Colonia del Sacramento
1 review
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Hotel Colon Piriapolis
27 reviews
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Del Country Durazno
1 review
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La Posta del Vinyet Jose Ignacio
5 reviews
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Arbol Casa Loft Punta del Este
4 reviews
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Hotel Art & Spa Las Cumbres Punta del Este
66 reviews
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Las Olas Resort Hotel Punta Del Este
36 reviews
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Villa de Mar Hotel Punta del Este
18 reviews
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Embajador Montevideo
44 reviews
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Hotel Principe Montevideo
1 review
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Hotel Italiano Colonia del Sacramento
55 reviews
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Hotel Morgan Bay Piriapolis
21 reviews
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Hotel Durazno
2 reviews
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Hotel Posada Paradiso Jose Ignacio
7 reviews
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Hotel Bravamar Punta del Este
16 reviews
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Le Club Posada Punta del Este
13 reviews
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Short Term Apartments Montevideo
1 review
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Hotel Plaza Mayor Colonia del Sacramento
73 reviews
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Hotel Rex Piriapolis
15 reviews
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Hotel Crown Melo
3 reviews
Uruguay
Travel Blogs from Uruguay, Uruguay
Uruguay and back into Buenos Aires (Argentina)
This is a top pick! ... we took a long bus ride into Uruguay and stayed at a tiny fishing town called Punta del Diablo just over the border connecting Uruguay with Brazil. We rented a little house right by the sea for less than 5 pounds a night. It was a cute little house and ...
Happy Halloween!
This is a top pick! ... overview of places I would want to re-visit (Lima, Iquitos, Northern Peru, Amazon in Peru, Cuzco, Bolivia, Buenos Aires and... now Uruguay). Yesterday, the group (minus the 3 19 year old Norwegian girls) did a city tour. The city is very diverse, with a ...
liming
This is a top pick! Uruguay, its the second smallest sovereign nation in South America and has the letter U in its name three times. You can cross to Uruguay from Argentina on a ferry, much like Brits go on trips across to France, its only 2 hours and you get to raid ...
Street Tango In Montevideo.
This is a top pick! ... 50 years. Moments like this happen totally by happy accident when travelling. We had arrived late in Montevideo the capital of Uruguay after a rather unsuccessful, troublesome day. Our booked taxi for 6.00am back in Buenos Aries did not arrive and we ...
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 ...
Living in the past
This is a top pick! ... elegant bull ring was used for just two years and is now falling apart (it is fenced off, bullfighting is banned in Uruguay). The casino failed when the Argentineans imposed a tax on excursions across the river and only the racecourse is still operational ...
Last Stop in Uruguay
This is a top pick! My final stop in Uruguay is a cool little town called Colonia del Sacramento. It's just a quiet touristy town that's good for a day walking around the old cobblestoned streets and taking pictures. The town used to be a smuggling point for ...
Travel Info Only = NO STORY.
This is a top pick! TRAVEL TALK: We sailed from BA with Buquebus which combines Ferry to Montivideo, then transfer at the wharf to a bus to Punta Del Este. It was all very smooth and convenient. Once in Punta Del Este we were able to put our luggage into storage ...
URUGUAY LIFE
This is a top pick! ... cheek-kiss to a guy upon greeting him. In other words, it“s been three weeks since I took off from Argentina. I stopped next in Uruguay. Uruguay - I“m not going to lie to you - is rather lacking in exciting attractions. A bit boring, it is. But, I did ...
Across the River
This is a top pick! ... celebration. We asked if they used a different calendar as we understood that Lent had begun the day before. Evidently, in Uruguay, Carnaval continues for about a week into Lent or until everyone runs out of steam. This is my kind of Catholicism, lots ...
Old Time Town
This is a top pick! All you can do is step back in time. So that`s what I did in the less than flourishing town of Fray Bentos. Frigorifico Having heard from a guy on a bus that the old meat extraction plant at Fray Bentos was an interesting tour, I put it on my list of ...
Party Like it's 1989
This is a top pick! ... is off-season. In January and February, nobody is allowed to go to bed before sunrise. We were glad for the reprieve. Uruguay has been a very interesting country. Colonia and Punta del Este have been scenic and very cultured. (We later learned that ...
Uruguay....
This is a top pick! From the Paris of south America we travel across the border by ferry into Uraguay to the charming 17th century Portugese contraband port and fortress of Colonia just a 3 hour ferry ride across the Rio De La Plata from Buenos Aires....as we“re only here ...
Uruguay I'm okay
This is a top pick! ... Montevideo. Jordan asks about our plans. I thought we would be heading into the city. After all we still had a few hours in Uruguay and I wanted to see some of the city. Unfortunately the weather was still awful. This wasn't deterring to me but Jeremiah, ...
Full Circle Back to B.A.
This is a top pick! Had to catch a bus back to Bariloche from El Bolson where I had been livin large at the music festival. Eventually caught the connecting bus and was shooting across back overnight towards B.A. where it had all begun six months ago. Now I don't usually ...
Last few days in Uruguay before hitting Brazil...
... ‘No the mine’. The Uruguayan government are planning on allowing an open air iron mine being built inland in Uruguay and then a canal and port to transport the goods to the sea which would destroy all the unspoilt beaches that we have ...
Ferry to Uruguay!
This is a top pick! ... , its hard to appreciate a beach with brown sand and brown water! Boy, have we been spoiled with the Bahamian clear blue waters! Uruguay was a nice change from Buenos Aires. It was clean and quiet and very picturesque! We had heard that the sunsets on the ...
If I was a writer
This is a top pick! ... write some kind of novel along the lines of Under the Tuscan Sun (why go to Spain or Italy when you could come to Uruguay?) when I was stalked by an Argentinian anthropology student. His name was Gabriel and he was a bit, or probably even quite strange. ...
To Tan In The Sun
This is a top pick! ... is such a wonderful thing!!! Chairlift Upon arriving in Piriąpolis I went for a walk along the Rambla de los Argentinos, saw the flashy Argentino Hotel with its flashing casino lights and stopped by the Tourist Office for a selection of ...
And on to Uruguay...Colonial towns and countryside
... midnight – a first! The next day we keep moving and take a two hour bus journey to Montevideo – the capital of Uruguay. It’s only a flying visit as we have a bus the next morning. We stay at Unplugged hostel in Pocitos which ...
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! ... am off to Piriąpolis to try and tan it up a bit before moving on to other green pastures. Things I Learned * Coppers in Uruguay look just like Vic Police coppers, right down to their hats and reflective yellow traffic jackets. * Uruguayan men don`t ...
Montevideo and ferry to Buenos Aires
This is a top pick! ... I was in Montevideo. An hour later, he walked me through the history of the city, his life, the effects of the economic changes Uruguay has faced, wished me well, bought my breakfast and said good day! Such an incredible way to start my day. In fact, ...
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 ...
Buenos Aires - Montevideo
This is a top pick! ... attractions (Cafe Tortoni, the cathedral, a museum and a pink palace of some sort) we took tyhe early morning ferry across to Montevideo, Uruguay. The ferry is not however a cheap way to travel (no return fares for a quid deals etc) and given that we ...
Salto, Uruguay
This is a top pick! It was a long night for all of us, so the timing for entering the city of natural hot springs was perfect. We dropped our bags, grabbed our suits and headed to the 'spa'. Every single one of us indulged in the options. Personally, I had access to all ...
Very quaint Colonia and a boat ride to Tigre!
This is a top pick! We had a “Beach“ or “Colonial Town“ dilemma the next morning but when we got to the bus station, we decided to head to Colonia as the weather wasn“t that great and we“d heard great things about this little place! It was a great decision and really ...
The Cape - Our few days at Cabo Polonio
This is where we begin to get off the beaten track thanks to the advice of Miguel at El Galope hostel. Cabo Polonio is, as we understand it, a slightly illegal settlement that the government have made into a natural reserve to stop any more building on ...
Montevideo
This is a top pick! ... , it is right out of a movie. Rolling green hills, farms, and even the occasional Gaucho herding his horses and cattle. Uruguay was very pretty, it seemed miles between each home\farm and clean. There wasn't graffity littering every standing item, as ...