You will find Shopping Tips, Security Tips (Check specifically Atm's, Taxis and Credit Card), and Fun Tips

Shopping Tips

About most accepted Credit Cards
You don't want to arrive to this nice city and have a credit card that is not usually accepted, so let me suggest get a Visa or American Express. CLEARLY is Visa the most accepted here in Argentina.

Get on hand a photo of the different rooms of your house
Buenos Aires is one of the World design capitols. Since the crisis we lived in 2001, best decor objects are avalaible at low International prices, that’s an opportunity you can’t miss! However, for take the max advantage, it is not only necessary know where to buy, but what. That’s the reason why I suggest you get a pic of your home, this photograph will allow you check how will work this beauty vase that you are ready to buy.

Mental revision of your wardrobe
Keep in mind what are the clothes wich whom you should combine the coat you are buying, or better, forget everything about your clothes and buy a complete clothes set!

Bargain! (Except with your Personal Guide)
Just by being tourist in so many places prices will authomaticaly raise, in some cases prices expressed in pesos will turn magically into dollars, multiplying it cost three times. If you ask for a disccount, is highly probable you get it.

Security Tips

Buenos Aires is not a violent city, neither it have any kind of records of steals. Anyway, as in every big cities in the World, is a proper place to little steals and shopliftings. This advices target to make more comfortable your trip, not to scare you.

Safe Taxis
The best is asking for a radio-taxi by phone, I bring you to phone-numbers: 
Pidalo : 4-931-1200, 
Premium 4-956-1200,
Personal option is Gerardo, a trusty driver, 155-147-2927, you can check about him here 

If you are not close for a public phone or not have a cel phone, check see in the back door of the taxi the advertise about the radio taxi. If you are buying or in a restaurant, they will call a trusty radio taxi for you

Protect your camera
Far away of presence of policeman, nothing better than being alert on caring about personal objects, that not only have its monetary value, but its have your valious pictures of the trip. Don’t let cameras or other objects like phone cels at the view of everybody, over Bar tables or chairs. The most stealing zones are Caminito, Florida and Lavalle.

Your bag on front
Don’t walk with your bag hanging at your back. Some people trains eight hours per day for open bags while you are walking, here, and in every place of the World.

Care with surrounding areas!
Do not expose yourself at surrounding areas to the touristic zone without get fresh information about if they are safe or not. Again, one of the most dangerous zones is which surrounds Caminito at La Boca. Policemen standed are clearly the border. Remember that everybody will realize than you are a tourist just by seeing you from far.

ATM machines, Authomathic Cash Dispensers, Do not allow under any circunstance being helped with any trouble with these machines, nor give your security codes to anybody. Do not get big amounts of money in once time. Never use them at night.

VEEEEEERY IMPORTANT: There are two nets of ATM's here in Argentina, I suggest you to use Banelco, you will get more chances get your ATM service conected with it. You will see in the ATM's door a sign with the brand Banelco, doesn't matters wich bank is.

VEEEEEERY IMPORTANT 2: By security reasons, and of course without telling you, your efficient bank may have decided that you are able to get $arg 200 per extraction. Don't worry, by "security reasons", they will allow you do it five extractions of $arg 200 one after other, at the same time in the same ATM without problems.

Do not carry your passport
Passport are as valious or more than money. You can use a photocopy or you passport or use another document. Carry only if you need to go to exchange money.

Don’t exchange money at the street
There are a lot of persons offering you exchange in better conditions than authorized and installed houses of exchange. Nothing never happens but...Are you so expert  to avoid swindles with false money?
The best place to exchange is in Downtown, Corrientes 546, or Recoleta Quintana Av close to La Biela Coffee.

Get your cash separated from your credit cards and documents
It’s a way of reduce the risk of lose everything in one shot.

Fun Tips

Prepare your travel with time
Without turn the preparations in a torture, to have an idea about what you wish to see is the best way to have place for improvisation. It is a paradox but best improvisations are what jump out from a plan, and not which are the only one plan. Buenos Aires is a very big city and offers an enormous variety of alternatives, it is very easy to get confused and lose beauty places or shows if you have not taken the caution of schedule what you believe should be the most interesting to you.

Travel light!
Travel with a few things is absolutely comfortable, but most important: You need to let space to the lot of new things that you will by here! It’s absolutely possible to get dress “from feet to head” with World Class Brands, just visiting one of the many shoppings of the city. You also can get excelent argentinean-design clothes.

Use Guide-Books
Guide-books are so useful because they bring synthetic data about places you are visiting, things to check, timetables of museums and galleries, etc. It is good to have them close althought not having read them previously. Ask for the guide-file free

Don’t hire on Airports
As a general rule, airports agencies pays elevated fees for being there, ready to sell to you…and make you pay their fee!. Ask for information, but compare prices before decide, and don’t feel uncomfortable, they have locals close to your hotels, ask them a phone or and adress, just in case.

Get a local Cell-phone line easy and cheap
You can carry a cell-phone and get a SIM card here, at a cost of US$ 5 and get some minutes by other US$ 5. Although I told you not to hire on Airports, this SIM's have a standard price, even in Airports. These are the companies: Movistar, Claro, Personal. You have no idea about how extremelly useful is to account with a local phone line.

Get a map and basic data written
Get a city map and some notes about useful notes, like hotel, travel agency you  hired, consulate office and the name of some relative of yours. Ask to the hotel receptionist to mark with a cross where is the hotel placed on your map. You can ask me a tourist map free.

            
              
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