Snacks or meals in a traditional setting. The locals frequent it as well as tourists. Cheap and friendly. There's also tango shows in the evenings.
Avenida de Mayo 857
Google map: tinyurl.com/mo93r2
Similar to Covent Garden, but the best seats cost about £10. Go to any musical for the experience, or just to see the place.
Cerrito 618; email: informaciones@teatrocolon.org.ar;
Tel: 00 54 11 4378 7100; www.teatrocolon.org.ar/
Google map: tinyurl.com/mca2av
Honest, friendly and cheap. Most journeys cost about £1 or less. Also try the metro/underground railway
Transport from the airport to your hotel, for about £4 each. Friendly, efficient, reliable, fast. By minibus to any hotel.
At Buenos Aires airport, it's well signposted; www.tiendaleon.com
Simple, clean, friendly and obliging hotel. It’s central, just along from the Casa Rosada. Doubles are around £17 a night including breakfast, although that should be taken next door at the fantastic Café Tortoni.
861 Avenida de Mayo; email: hhispano@hhispano.com.ar;
Tel: 00 54 11 4345 2020
www.hhispano.com.ar/
Google map: tinyurl.com/nwwfnq
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