Travel to South America

Lonely Planet Buenos Aires

Format: Paperback
Author: Sandra Bao
ReleaseDate: 15 August, 2005
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Rating:

Lonely Planet Buenos Aires
It is a very helpful tool to make your own tours in Buenos Aires.

Good Guide, but you need a better Buenos Aires map
I studied it and marked all interesting places in the city. I bought this guide two months before my travel to Buenos Aires. Later in the Hotel I asked for a map (It was free)and marked all the interesting places.

The guide shows wonderfull places to go, beautifull monuments, good restaurants and coffee shops.

Don?t pay attention to prices in the guide, devaluation has changed everthing, You must know 1 US Dollar is equivalent to 3 or 3 Pesos. Also you can change Brasilian Reales, Euros, and Pounds. Example A Water Bottle is worth about 1. 20 Pesos, a gooood and juicy Steak is worth 16 pesos. A Taxi is worth about 6 or 10 pesos. The guide say you could spent almost 60 US $ Day, I think it?s abou 45 US $ day.

Try central hotels, near "Teatro Colon" or Galerias Pacifico Shoping Center.

Conclusion: It?s a nice guide, but you will need better maps.



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Worthless
I had been using the Time Out guide in the city, which is infinitely better, but I brought this guide on a trip to Colonia and Montevideo because it had much more information. I am an American studying abroad in Buenos Aires and I wanted to advise anyone who is considering buying this book to save their money. As it turned out, nothing the guide recommended for Montevideo was true or even open. It listed two vegetarian restaurants, one with three locations throughout the city. I spent the better part of a day walking around the city only to find that not a single one of those four was still in existence. I then found a Lebanese restaurant in the guide and walked there, only to find that it wasn't open either. I thought maybe some shopping would improve my mood. . . but few of the places listed still exist. We couldn't find the reccomended Baar Fun Fun or the Cafe Brasilero. At this point, I tossed the guidebook in the nearest trashcan. At least for Buenos Aires and Uruguay, its much wiser to stick with time out.

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