ATM's

There are (at least) three towns in Argentina that have Welsh influence, which form a triangle with legs of maybe fifty clicks or so, very roughly. Trelew, Puerto Madryn, and Rawson. These are in the province of Chubút. Here you have many tall, green-eyed women. I was in Trelew for Mardi Gras in 2008 and it was quite interesting. I think this is one of the more liveable areas of the country. I do not believe that there remains much of a Welsh speaking community, though. Near Bariloche in Río Negro you have Colonia Suiza where they make cheese and that community has retained German to a fairly significant extent. I went to a restaurant there where you could pick out your own fish from the retaining pond, select what greens you wanted them to go pick for your salad, and so forth. Formosa has probably the highest average looks of any of the 19 provinces I have visited, which is good because it is spectacularly uninteresting otherwise. And there are NO fat chicks there.

And, to stay on topic, there are ATMs in all of these places.

True, those three towns have Welsh influence but where you really get to see the colony is in Dol Avon and Tre Felin. Welsh tea shops, Welsh spoken on the streets and so on. And believe it or not, the Welsh language is still strong. The colony is the only other place in the World they keep the Eisteddfod. A sort of yearly competition for poetry and singing and so on where they swap choirs etc with the Welsh eisteddfod. They also have ATM machines there and you can withdraw 1500 pesos at a time from most of them! There are some very pretty girls but I don't recommend the area in general for mongering.

Formosa is one of the few provinces I have never been to but I have repeatedly been told there are some really gorgeous chics there. I bet that in most of the populated areas there are ATM machines. Though I would suspect that in the Chaco-Formoseño jungle they may be few and far apart!

[QUOTE=MiamiBob;421816]Are atm's dead and no longer usefull?

Max pesos out at one transaction? Charge per transaction? Exchange rates?

Any current info would be appreciated?[/QUOTE]Currently what I have managed is 1500 per transaction.

Exchange rate is up to your bank and probably around $60 pesetas in fees + your banks (U$D5).

(side note 4 years a go a colleague in a competitive company got $10 bills from the ATM when it should have been $100. Never hear about it since but no one I know took out money at the airport again.).

We have found that the city center is pretty safe as long as it is a populated area with a lot of transactions.

But if you are here for work and working on a big site they probably have ATMs on site and they would be the preferred ATMs to use.

Cheers.

I was not able to get cash from ATMs in the past couple of days.

Tried the both the Banelco and Link machines, with a Chase debit and a BOFA debit, with no luck, got a "We cannot process your transaction" message?

I could get $AR 4000 per transaction last week.

I anybody experiencing this issue in BA recently?

BR.

How much did you try to withdraw? Try a lower amount. I have had consistent luck with Galicia, BBVA, HSBC, IBC, able to get 5000 pesos. I have had poor luck with Citibank, Banco Provinica, Banco Nacion, etc. Probably wherever you are there are some that are better than others. Some of the other ones either are out of money, or don't allow amounts more than like 3000. Also try to withdraw earlier in the week.

[QUOTE=Diegoccs;450340]I was not able to get cash from ATMs in the past couple of days.

Tried the both the Banelco and Link machines, with a Chase debit and a BOFA debit, with no luck, got a "We cannot process your transaction" message?

I could get $AR 4000 per transaction last week.

I anybody experiencing this issue in BA recently?

BR.[/QUOTE].

OK, let's skip the praise of having a Schwab card. Anyway, an ATM at AEP airport dispensed me maximum ARS 5,000 and the machine fee was ARS 420. The taxi fare was ARS 175 and the fee 420. Are they high? Pun intended. Santander declined transactions. HSBC dispensed maximum ARS 4,000 again with the same 420 fee. I think it's the highest I have ever paid to withdraw cash. Any suggestions on higher amounts, lesser fees etc?

If you want to get the best rate, use western union and transfer yourself cash. They'll give you the blue rate and you can even use a coupon to get rid of the WU transfer fee.