starwarsdad
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 29, 2014
We decided to arrive one day early and luckily for us we did. Those arriving on day 1 of the adventure ran into terrible traffic due to the World Cup champions returning home that morning. The Argentina Football Association’s headquarters are just a few miles down the road from the airport towards city center. The streets were crowded on the way there. I heard of stories that it took several hours to travel to the hotel that morning.
Immigration and customs were not difficult or time consuming but our flight was 90 minutes late so perhaps we missed “rush hour.”
ABD had English speaking guides to direct us immediately after clearing customs. Our guide obtained a large van or small bus to take us back to the Alvear Icon hotel. There are several Alvear hotels in Buenos Aires. Luckily I wasn’t too tired because the drive took us to Alvear Art hotel. Since we don’t speak better than two years of high school Spanish we had a bit of difficulty explaining to our driver he had the wrong hotel. Thank goodness for the universal language of Google maps.
This hotel doesn’t seem like the standard hotel ABD uses for the adventure because the site still states Sofitel Recoletta which may be in a more touristy area of Buenos Aires.
Most flights from the US are red eyes into Buenos Aires. Our room wouldn’t be ready until 3pm. So jet lagged and all we began exploring Puerto Madero. This area is a reclaimed port area turned tourist area and upscale housing. Our local guide told us many of the Argentina National team has housing in the area.
There are some nice restaurants along the river and we were about a 15-20 minute walk to Florida Street and the Obelisco.
My kids were fairly tired so I didn’t push us to do a whole lot. The other major cloud over our head was our impending COVID test. I think many of us were super cautious just because we didn’t want to have traveled all this way to not go to Antarctica.
Oh what’s a trip to Buenos Aires without some empanadas.
Immigration and customs were not difficult or time consuming but our flight was 90 minutes late so perhaps we missed “rush hour.”
ABD had English speaking guides to direct us immediately after clearing customs. Our guide obtained a large van or small bus to take us back to the Alvear Icon hotel. There are several Alvear hotels in Buenos Aires. Luckily I wasn’t too tired because the drive took us to Alvear Art hotel. Since we don’t speak better than two years of high school Spanish we had a bit of difficulty explaining to our driver he had the wrong hotel. Thank goodness for the universal language of Google maps.
This hotel doesn’t seem like the standard hotel ABD uses for the adventure because the site still states Sofitel Recoletta which may be in a more touristy area of Buenos Aires.
Most flights from the US are red eyes into Buenos Aires. Our room wouldn’t be ready until 3pm. So jet lagged and all we began exploring Puerto Madero. This area is a reclaimed port area turned tourist area and upscale housing. Our local guide told us many of the Argentina National team has housing in the area.
There are some nice restaurants along the river and we were about a 15-20 minute walk to Florida Street and the Obelisco.
My kids were fairly tired so I didn’t push us to do a whole lot. The other major cloud over our head was our impending COVID test. I think many of us were super cautious just because we didn’t want to have traveled all this way to not go to Antarctica.
Oh what’s a trip to Buenos Aires without some empanadas.