Comodoro Rivadavia Hotels - Reviews and Rates

The road from Calafate through Rio Gallegos onto Comodoro Rivadavia is mostly dry desert. Empty, windy and lifeless. This is Patagonia Argentina at its wildest. The overnight bus was full of backpackers going from Calafate to the lake district of Bariloche. We are the only ones got off in Comodoro Rivadavia, a small city known for its offshore o...

We are back in Comodoro Rivadavia for a couple of hours to get the bus up to Trelew (about 280 kms North along the coast line). A few notes on our first impressions on Argentina: - Most shops close from 12pm to 5pm for lunch and siesta (its summer now) - Smoking is not banned in bars and restaurants. We expected this in all South America, but we...

Day 168: January 30, 2008 Playa Bonita to Comodoro Rivadavia I slept fairly well and got up at 8:15. My hair was thick with sand. After doing a long stroll to the water to do last night's dishes, and getting surprised by the rapidly rising tide, I woke Will up. He had apparently been wandering around the dunes several times during the night in s...

Day 164: January 26, 2008 Comodoro Rivadavia This might really be my last full day in Comodoro! I got up at 8:00. After taking a shower, I called Dubrovnik Rent-a-Car and told them that I wouldn't need the car until tomorrow. There seemed to be no problem. I ate breakfast and then walked down to La Anonima, which has the only ATM in this part of...

Day 162: January 24, 2008 Comodoro Rivadavia The sound of running water awoke me a couple of times during the night. I had strange dreams of rainstorms and pipe bursts. Will is supposed to arrive tomorrow so I sent him a text message telling him where to find me. After breakfast, I wrote yesterday's blog entry in the hotel dining room while the ...

Day 161: January 23, 2008 Comodoro Rivadavia Once again, it was a hot day in Comodoro. The locals tell me that it is unusual to have so many hot days in a row. After breakfast, I went to the internet locutorio. It was stifling in there. I uploaded my blog and a few fotos; checked my email and my accounts; and did some research on the strata arou...

Passed through Comodoro Rivadavia on my way south just long enough to see it's a major petroleum area. An interesting note in my guidebook is that Argentina is self-sufficient in petroleum with a full one third coming from this area alone. This isn't the place to scenery. More of the desert scrubland that dominates the landscape here with the oc...

stopped over here for a few hours en route to bariloche, which for the record is not sure how far from Calafate, but bc we like to do everything in the wrong season, the road is closed. and i am sure it wouldnt take the 33 hours it did in he right season, first four hours to rio gallegos, then to comodoro rivadavia, then finally bariloche. comod...

Trelew, Punta Tombo and Comodoro A quick 1 hour in the bus and I arrived at the town of Trelew. Its not a very exciting place, but the weather was nice and I had a couple of days before I needed to be down here in Comodoro Rivadavia, so I thought I would stop and see some penguins! About half a million burrowing Magellan penguins live in a colon...

While I was momentarily attending a highschool called "Master College" (what in God's ****ing name were these people thinking? "Master College"? Seriously?), our biology teacher had no better idea than to take us on some sort of field trip to Comodoro Rivadavia. That's in a province called Chubut, which in Spanish means "why are you still here?"...