Claridge Buenos Aires

... why we landed at another airport. Maybe low fuel but we found ourselves frantically looking for our seatbelts.   We arrived in Buenos Aires a little late due to the unexpected landing and take off. We made it through customs, got our luggage, all ...

... herself until becoming alert again on the hospital bed. So let us never speak of this incident again. The drive through Buenos Aires suburbs was pleasant - limited traffic. One odd thing that reminded me of Vietnam: lots of lone apartment blocks, long ...

... English, we had a great night luckily we had "Spanish with 50 words" behind us, or we could have had a quiet night!!! Totally recommend the The Claridge Hotel - really close to everything!! Tomorrow we´re off to our B&B in the suburds of ...

... Pacifico which has renaissance style painted ceilings and works of art along the malls containing some extremely expensive shops. Buenos Aires is a shoppers' paradise and leather goods are the main bargain buy for tourists.   The restaurants and ...

... Posada 1820 (or something like that) and an early night. We are a bit tired today. We were planning to go to a Tango show but we can't be bothered. Not sure if we feel bad about that, us being in Buenos Aires and all, but time will tell. ...

... city. By this i mean that evry other Argenitinian city has its streets and avenues named after famous male Argentinans, Buenos Aires however has its streets named after famous females that have walked its streets! Blimey i almost sounded educated then! ...

... big Steak and Quilmes so I´ll be off! Tomorrow we fly to El Calafate and our tour begins - Steve just checked the weather down there - 4º to 9º - pretty chilly after are beautiful days on sunshine in Buenos Aires Hasta luego mi amigos Julie and Steve ...

... managed! Anyway we were up early again to get cabs along to the ferry port in Colonia to cross the river over to Buenos Aires. I wont lie, alongside everyone else, i was very glad to leave Uruguay to Argentina. I would suggest skipping Uruguay to most ...

... i was bashing on Claires (Irish) door due to complete and utter boredom! Thankfully like me she thinks that going to a city like Buenos Aires and staying in a hotel room all day is abit of waste of time so we headed out for abit of breakfast before ...

... by the pool in the afternoon and later went out to one of the wonderful steakhouses to take advantage of the special offers.   Buenos Aires is often called 'the Paris of South America' and rightly so  - it is a classy and elegant city and the ...

Arrived safe. The journey was long, but smooth enough until we got off at the wrong plaza bus stop in Buenos Aires (BA) so had to walk in bucketing down rain(which made me laugh as it was more like walking round cardiff than somewhere 1000s of miles ...

... in the Sheratons restaurant...very nice indeed. Our only concern is that we will run out of money by the second week. Fortunately Buenos Aires is unbelievably cheap. We had a nice staek dinner for 2 with wine for under ten pounds in a very flash ...

We made our country proud at the breakfast buffet this morning! What a fine spread. They even had champagne and I managed to flop a couple of glasses of buck's fizz while John was toasting his crumpets! Gluttony delayed our departure to the ...

We were very quiet in the taxi to the airport this morning. We are very sad that it's over and can't quite believe how fast it all went by. What a fantastic time we have had.  We did our bird list whilst waiting to get on the plane and we saw 235 ...