Apart Hotel Mendoza

... that Mendoza was a safe place to walk at night as we were at least a 10-15 minute walk away from the centre. Mendoza suffered a bad earthquake in 1861 which devastated the city. They rebuilt the city with big wide avenues, just in case the an earthquake ...

Date : 17/12/2007 Localisation : Mendoza ( Argentine) Temperature : 35 degrés a l'ombre Langue : Espagnol   12h30. Mendoza grouille de toutes parts. Le 17 décembre, 7 jours avant Noël signifie la course effrénée vers ...

... at our hotel who was gracious enough to make lots of phone calls and help us arrange everything.  We spent the afternoon strolling around downtown Mendoza but practically everything was closed just because it's Sunday. Ah, Catholic countries!  ...

... a plate. Neal said he had never tasted meat like this anywhere else in the world. We also enjoyed the Argentinian wine, from Mendoza, which was cheap, plentiful and tasted so good! Well with our packs on our backs we left the hotel and walked for 15 ...

... taste of boiled hay...mixed with a dollop of mud). We also spent some time in the grounds of the Hyatt, Mendoza's best looking hotel equipped with its own wine bar (which we managed to stay away from!) and some great restaurants surprisingly reasonably ...

... center and named Plaza Indepencia. It's the most California like. With large palms, and flowers galore and plenty of fountains. Mendoza still has working aqueducts which are Pre-Spanish. And they are quite small. Smaller than the width of the ...

... are here i think in total they all cost 95quid for everything. you could not do one of them for that price at home. Mendoza was a great city which had it all parks, mountains, lakes, adventure, great food bars, restaurants (the green apple for sj), ...

... now have for my tiredness from a short stroll on a mountain path. Wednesday 17/03/10 Had another uneventful day strolling around Mendoza the only notable thing was that I’d finally noticed the school uniform here. No jokes, they all wear lab coats. ...

... Travels nearly over (in S America anyway) and its time to sit back and relax for the few days before Christmas. We chose Mendoza for a load of reasons. First of all it was reccomended to us by lots of other travellers, its cheaper than Chile, the weather ...

Have been staying in the desert city of Mendoza for the past 4 nights in an apart hotel which Kelly and Mark had found. The city is much bigger than we expected but it is a short distance to some of the 1900 (yes 1900!) wineries in the Mendoza area. We ...

Arrived in Mendoza city, will spend most of the week checking out the outlying areas and catching up with some old business acquaintances. First impressions of the city - unkempt, tired, littered. And they're preparing for their largest event of the year ...

Good wine, more wine and really good wine! This is how you can easily spend some days in Mendoza, and so we did! We rented a tandem bike and we actually did pretty well! The setting in the Maipu valley is perfect for biking through ...

... us time with toilet breaks, fuel, coffee stops and making stupid decisions for you. I will definitely remember the smell of Mendoza. There were dead dogs everywhere and you could smell them for miles! Bloated ones, splatted ones, and rotting ones, it was ...

... were middle aged balding men, really skanky ladies leather boots, and carefully chosen red and black thongs - every hotel and street in Mendoza was lined with beautiful Harley's and their even more characterful masters. And for once the Chinese ...

... around so it was freezing out of the water. Plus they made Chris put his hair into a ponytail again... Our last day in Mendoza involved getting a bus to a nearby shopping mall - where we did a cinema double bill (The Village and King Arthur - the ...

... . That afternoon, we went for a walk around the village. Little did we know but we soon discovered that the village is Mendoza's centre of gastronomy! It's really small but its streets are lined with some of Mendoza's best restaurants. Fancy that! :-) We ...

... meat and it is literally half of a cow. So following the meal it was the the 1hr ½ minibus journey back to Mendoza. We were all feeling incredibly full, a little tipsy and all having the same thing in mind – it was sleepy time .... ...

... the hostel was only a short walk from the bus station so decided to get a feel for the city on foot. We had come to Mendoza soley for the vineyards and hoped to sample some tasty vino. The hostel was lovely and the weather delightful, so warm we could ...