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Also they have miles and miles of shops on Florida and Avenida Santa Fe where you can buy anything for one third of the price in the US or UK.

We stayed at the art hotel in Recoleta which was a boutique hotel with contemporary art in the foyer, free internet access, great rooms and wet room bathrooms.

Beware the fake taxis in Buenos Aires. Because we'd been there for four days we realised that if they don't have a proper meter in the right hand corner and photographic id on the back of the driver's seat then don't get in. We used a taxi which charged us three times the price of a journey from the airport. We refused to pay and threatened to call the Policia!
If this happens to you get to your hotel and ask the concierge to translate... avoid at all costs.

Otherwise, BA is one of the safest cities in the world and the people are very nice. Palermo is great and so is Recoleta. Avoid San Telmo if you have to. Use taxis rather than buses as they are very cheap and the metro is great for getting around centrally. In taxis from the Newbery internal airport it should cost you no more than $14 and to the international around $50.

Try and go to the best steak restaurant in the Palermo area called La Cabrera, it's economical but BOOK AHEAD as it gets very busy.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/18318 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16707
When we were scheduled to fly back to BA from San Martín de los Andes at 2pm, having rung to check all was ok, we were informed that we'd be flying back from Bariloche instead and they would be coming to pick us up at our hotel at 4.45am. I asked how they had planned to inform us about this development, since if we hadn't rung we'd have been stranded. They said 'you should always re-confirm your flights'. We already had, twice.

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It was completely unnecessary to negotiate a price in advance, and quite the opposite of what we'd been led to believe. We were told never to hail them off the street, but we always did. I have never felt safer than I did in Buenos Aires.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3946 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3930 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3930 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/1150 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/1150 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/748 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/748 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/425 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/425